All About the Learners: Gifted, ELL, and Special Needs Students, Katie Wood
Gifted Students
Gifted education is the special practice for education children that have been identified as gifted or talented in a certain area, such as reading, writing, the arts, math, or leadership. A child could potentially be gifted in any curriculum. When teaching gifted children, the main approaches are usually enrichment and acceleration. In order for the gifted student to learn, they must receive good curriculum and instruction from a teacher. Gifted students must also learn at a pace that is based on their individual needs. They must also be learning at a high degree of difficulty. Finally, good teaching of gifted students requires a supported risk, meaning they need the support to take risks. The following resource discusses all of the good techniques that can be used to teach a gifted students and also all of the inappropriate ways of teaching a gifted student: What it Means to Teach Gifted Students This site is appropriate for any teacher who doesn't know how to teach a gifted student. I myself used to think of ways that ended up to be inappropriate. When in my clinical classroom, I will use this article to help me challenge the gifted student in that classroom.
ELL Students:
English Language Learners are increasing in our schools. Teachers should be prepared to have multiple ELL students in their future classrooms. Although we are not required to learn a second language during our program, it would be beneficial to learn a little bit of the top languages of ELL students in our schools. As teachers, we may not know where to begin when facing the challenge of having an ELL student in our classroom. They will be at different levels of English proficiency, but we should try to go about teaching them the same way. The following resource I found discusses 12 ways to support ELL students in the general education classroom: 12 Ways to Support English Language Learners. This article can be an essential tool to look back on throughout your teaching when you have an ELL student. Even though we touch on the subject in college, it is always important to have another resource handy to refer back to when you feel stuck and you're not sure what to do. The article provides examples and helpful tools to assist the teaching of ELL students. The most important thing to do for ELL students is continue to communicate, keep it visual, and oral language is key. Just because they may not speak fluent English, does not mean you should not communicate with them.
Special Needs Students:
Teaching students with special needs may also be a challenge to general education teachers. The teacher may get flustered and feel overwhelmed at this if they have never experienced teaching a student with special needs before. Teaching students with special needs is all about motivation, following a schedule, making directions clearly understood, and helping special needs students socialize with other students in the classroom. This resource I found can help teachers that are struggling with ideas of how to make a student with special needs feel comfortable in their classroom: Teaching Children with Special Needs. Any teacher can use this in their classroom because it gives many examples of lessons you could do to help students with special needs get the most out of their school day. Whether you need to look at help for socializing or help with the curriculum, this resource contains it all with detailed examples to help you be the best teacher you can be to a special needs student.
As a future teacher, I think it is important to understand that you will not remember every single thing you studied in college. That is why it is important to find resources such as these to help you improve in your classroom and learn how to teach each individual student and meet their special needs.
Gifted education is the special practice for education children that have been identified as gifted or talented in a certain area, such as reading, writing, the arts, math, or leadership. A child could potentially be gifted in any curriculum. When teaching gifted children, the main approaches are usually enrichment and acceleration. In order for the gifted student to learn, they must receive good curriculum and instruction from a teacher. Gifted students must also learn at a pace that is based on their individual needs. They must also be learning at a high degree of difficulty. Finally, good teaching of gifted students requires a supported risk, meaning they need the support to take risks. The following resource discusses all of the good techniques that can be used to teach a gifted students and also all of the inappropriate ways of teaching a gifted student: What it Means to Teach Gifted Students This site is appropriate for any teacher who doesn't know how to teach a gifted student. I myself used to think of ways that ended up to be inappropriate. When in my clinical classroom, I will use this article to help me challenge the gifted student in that classroom.
ELL Students:
English Language Learners are increasing in our schools. Teachers should be prepared to have multiple ELL students in their future classrooms. Although we are not required to learn a second language during our program, it would be beneficial to learn a little bit of the top languages of ELL students in our schools. As teachers, we may not know where to begin when facing the challenge of having an ELL student in our classroom. They will be at different levels of English proficiency, but we should try to go about teaching them the same way. The following resource I found discusses 12 ways to support ELL students in the general education classroom: 12 Ways to Support English Language Learners. This article can be an essential tool to look back on throughout your teaching when you have an ELL student. Even though we touch on the subject in college, it is always important to have another resource handy to refer back to when you feel stuck and you're not sure what to do. The article provides examples and helpful tools to assist the teaching of ELL students. The most important thing to do for ELL students is continue to communicate, keep it visual, and oral language is key. Just because they may not speak fluent English, does not mean you should not communicate with them.
Special Needs Students:
Teaching students with special needs may also be a challenge to general education teachers. The teacher may get flustered and feel overwhelmed at this if they have never experienced teaching a student with special needs before. Teaching students with special needs is all about motivation, following a schedule, making directions clearly understood, and helping special needs students socialize with other students in the classroom. This resource I found can help teachers that are struggling with ideas of how to make a student with special needs feel comfortable in their classroom: Teaching Children with Special Needs. Any teacher can use this in their classroom because it gives many examples of lessons you could do to help students with special needs get the most out of their school day. Whether you need to look at help for socializing or help with the curriculum, this resource contains it all with detailed examples to help you be the best teacher you can be to a special needs student.
As a future teacher, I think it is important to understand that you will not remember every single thing you studied in college. That is why it is important to find resources such as these to help you improve in your classroom and learn how to teach each individual student and meet their special needs.
Resources
12 Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom. (2017,
December 04). Retrieved April 09, 2018, from
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/supporting-esl-students-mainstream-classroom/
Teaching Children With Developmental Disabilities: Classroom Ideas.
(n.d.). Retrieved April 09, 2018, from
http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/special-needs/teaching-children-developmental-disabilities-classroom-ideas
What it Means to Teach Gifted Learners Well. (n.d.). Retrieved April 09,
2018, from
https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/gifted-education-practices/what-it-means-teach-gifted-learners-well
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