Support Materials
for
Students with
Special
Education Needs
PROGRAMMING
Teaching
strategies
To meet
the
diverse
learning
needs
of
students,
teachers
identify
and
use
strategies
that
are
appropriate
to
the
knowledge,
skills
and/or
strategies,
phase
of
learning,
and
students’
specific
areas
of
difficulty
in
a
strand
,
).
Students
experiencing
difficulties
are
likely
to
require more
intense
and
explicit
instruction
(Graham & Harris 2005). This might
include:
•
additional
explanation
•
preteaching
of
prerequisitie
knowledge,
strategies
and
skills
for
new
learning
•
repeated modelling
•
the
implementation
of
teaching
steps
that
are
further
broken
down
into
smaller
steps
(Mastiopierri &
Scruggs 2002)
•
additional
teaching
and
learning
experiences
at
each
phase
of
learning
(acquisition,
fluency, maintenance,
generalisation)
•
instructional
scaffolding.
14
Teaching
and
learning
cycle
English K–6