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, “Now I am going to count from 16 to 20.  Listen.”  Touch each number and count from 16 to 20.  “I 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   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 “What will you teach my child next?”

This is the second post in a series covering four critical questions you need to ask your child’s teacher in your next parent-teacher interview: Question #1 – “What does my child know now?” Question #2 – “What will you teach him/her next in (pick a curriculum)?” Question #3 – “How will you know that s/heContinue reading “Parent/Teacher Interview Tips: Ask “What will you teach my child next?””

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”

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.