ED2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Short-Term Memory, Phonological Awareness, Formal Learning
Intervention for Learning Difficulties
Tutorial Two – Week Two
Visual processing
- Required to recognise, distinguish between, and reproduce letters, numbers, math symbols, and high frequency
words
- P can look like p b d or q
FAT
- Fear
- Anxiety
- Tension
‘N’ Activity – Adapted from R. Lavole
- Tell a round robin story about a visit to the beat
o The first person in your group says one sentence about your trip to the beach
o Each person in turn contributes a sentence that adds to the story
- Complication
o Say the same sentence but replace any word in this sentence with an ‘N’ in it
DVD: Outside the Square - Guided Viewing questions
- What classroom issues did you hear about from the children and parents?
o Affecting maths, English, attention and memory
o Connected to everyday life
▪ Activities
o “‘You need to do better’, but it is my best work”
▪ I have already been trying hard
▪ I do not get the score that I want
o It is hard to read and work out the questions
▪ Not keeping up with everyone
o “I would rather get in trouble by doing no work, rather than in trouble for doing my best work and
getting it all wrong”
▪ Never achieving as high as the work they put in
- What self-esteem issues are discussed?
o Hiding and not asking for help
▪ Frustrated and angry
▪ “I am not good enough”
▪ Terrified that I wont get any help
o Bullied
o Getting told that they are no good
▪ “Why should I try” attitude
▪ “Stupid and dumb”
▪ Need to sit at the front
o At rick of
▪ Depression
▪ Unemployment
▪ Under employment
▪ Anxiety
- What ideas do the children and parents recommend for teachers and schools?
o Teachers need to provide explicit instruction with evidence based investigations
o Teachers may not be aware of dyslexia
▪ Teacher 1: “I haven’t taught a dyslexic child before”
▪ Teacher 2: “You have, but you just didn’t know it”
o Not a lack of intelligence but a lack of access
▪ Requires understanding, accommodations, and access to assistance
o Parents need to teach the teachers, but feel like they shouldn’t
o Require understanding, accommodations and assistive technologies
o Need to have a voice and find enjoyment in school
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Document Summary
Required to recognise, distinguish between, and reproduce letters, numbers, math symbols, and high frequency words. Tell a round robin story about a visit to the beat: the first person in your group says one sentence about your trip to the beach, each person in turn contributes a sentence that adds to the story. Complication: say the same sentence but replace any word in this sentence with an n" in it. Dvd: outside the square - guided viewing questions. What classroom issues did you hear about from the children and parents: affecting maths, english, attention and memory, connected to everyday life, activities, you need to do better", but it is my best work . I do not get the score that i want. What self-esteem issues are discussed: hiding and not asking for help. Terrified that i wont get any help: bullied, getting told that they are no good.
