Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills- Lesson 4 The One-Minute Teacher TEACHES Rote Counting Skills From 10 to 20 Task 2: Counting from 16 to 20. See and Say Numbers from 16 to 20 Say to the student, âNow I am going to count from 16 to 20. Listen.â Touch each number and count from 16 to 20. âI counted fromContinue reading “Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills- Lesson 4”
Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills- Lesson 3 The One-Minute Teacher TEACHES Rote Counting Skills From 10 to 20 Â Rationale: In this exercise we will teach rote counting from 10 to 20 and practice until the fluency level of 200 counts/minute with 2 or fewer errors is reached. Now that the student has met the fluency standard for counting to 10,Continue reading “Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills- Lesson 3”
Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills: Lesson 2 The One-Minute Teacher  TEACHES  Rote Counting Skills From 1 to 10 (Forward)  PART 2 Review Part 1 from our last lesson Task 2: Rote Counting from 1 to 10. Think and Say Numbers from 1 to 10 Remove the sheet of paper and say to the student, “Now I am going to count from 1 toContinue reading “Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills: Lesson 2”
Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills – An Introduction I recently indicated that I would begin to publish e-lessons for specific skills. I am going to begin with teaching students counting skills. I will then switch to teaching spelling skills. There is no particular order for these lessons. I simply want to help a few more people by offering more than a single strand ofContinue reading “Practical Lessons for Teaching Counting Skills – An Introduction”
Parent/Teacher Interview Tips: Ask âWhat will you teach my child next?â This is the second post in a series covering four critical questions you need to ask your childâs teacher in your next parent-teacher interview: Question #1 â âWhat does my child know now?â Question #2 â âWhat will you teach him/her next in (pick a curriculum)?â Question #3 â âHow will you know that s/heContinue reading “Parent/Teacher Interview Tips: Ask âWhat will you teach my child next?â”
Surviving on SAFMEDS This post is written by a guest blogger Danielle Costa, who is a behavioral educator from Roseburg Oregon who has just started her own learning center. Jack is 14 and in the 8th grade. Sometimes he struggles to remember material that will be covered on a test. This week was no different. His science teacher hadContinue reading “Surviving on SAFMEDS”
A Critical, Simple, Almost Never Used, Measure of Academic Performance Whether you are a teacher, homeschooler or therapist, when we teach, we want to know that our teaching has been successful. Whether it is at the kitchen table, in a classroom, a withdrawal special ed program or a therapy session, we want to know that our teaching had an effect, made a difference, was worthContinue reading “A Critical, Simple, Almost Never Used, Measure of Academic Performance”
Three Critical Components of Teaching a Lesson Zig Engelmann taught me this as part of my Direct Instruction training after I had been doing it wrong for a number of years. Instruction is a situation in which you need pure communication.
Beginning Reading â Teaching Sounds and Symbols As everyone knows, the first major task in teaching someone of any age to read is to teach them how to match the sounds to the symbols used to depict words in any particular written language.
14 Key Components of Effective Instructional Design in Teaching Now that we are aware that teacher-generated lesson plans are essentially best-guess, unproven entities, in which the children function as guinea pigs, we need to know what alternatives exist and what they have to offer.