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Ruhaak Alert Issue 28, Winter Brain-based learning is the integration of neuroscience research and theory, education theory, and instructional practice used to address the specific needs of individuals student learning. This alert describes brain-based learning and how it works in addition to reviewing the current research on the topic.
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In this Alert, the authors review the literature on self-monitoring as it has been used for attention and performance in the classroom. This Alert also describes the process of self-monitoring and provides materials to support it.
The strategies in CSR are designed to teach students with diverse abilities comprehension strategies for use with expository text. Peer-mediated instruction can be implemented in many formats and a variety of contexts.
It is meant to take advantage of the heterogeneity of skill levels and interests in secondary content area courses.
CERs integrate several procedures for planning instruction and strategically teaching students the content supported by the use of content enhancements to promote the acquisition, storage, expression, demonstration, and generalization of complex content information.
They aid comprehension and content acquisition. However, according to this Alert, "few quality empirical studies have examined whether designing and delivering instruction according to an identified learning style improves student outcomes.
Its purpose is to provide a model for teachers to use to instruct their students in ways to become causal agents in their own lives, leading them to self-directed learning.
CSI has a very strong evidence base; employs systematic, explicit instructional procedures that have been validated extensively; and can be applied flexibly e.
Of course, it is not feasible to provide direct explicit instruction of every word that a student needs to know. This Alert addresses a group of empirically-validated vocabulary practices that include mnemonics, fluency building practice, cognitive strategies, and computer assisted instruction.
Mastropieri, George Mason University Alert Issue 17, Spring Self-Regulated Strategy Development SRSD for writing is an empirically validated model for supporting students as they write by helping them to develop relevant cognitive and self-regulation skills.
SRSD for writing has been studied in K classrooms with students who struggle with planning, composing, revising, or evaluating writing. SRSD for writing encourages students to accomplish writing tasks through explicit instruction and simplifying the process of composing narrative, expository, and persuasive essays while integrating self-regulatory practices.
Using reliable FBA data, educators and other clinicians can alter those environmental factors—antecedents and consequences of the behavior—and thereby change the behavior.
Although FBA was originally developed to address severe behavior problems, it is mandated by US law and is appropriate for use in some cases with students with learning disabilities. Extensive research has shown that interventions based on FBA data are highly effective, but there are barriers to using FBA successfully.
Despite the impediments, it is worth pursuing. Reading fluency instruction may include methods such as repeated reading; contingent reinforcement; goal setting and feedback; goal setting, feedback, and contingent reinforcement; and previewing.
All of these methods show promise in improving reading fluency. Research indicates that phonics approaches in beginning reading produce better outcomes in decoding, comprehension, and collateral skills e.
There is ample research that documents improvements in reading comprehension, process writing skills, thinking skills, and learning of content-area material when graphic organizers are used.
Comprehension strategy instruction is appropriate for individuals who consistently fail to develop a coherent understanding of material that is read.
One such strategy is self-questioning during reading. The self-questioning approaches discussed in this Alert improved comprehension in research studies. Researchers have reported mixed results for CL in improving the academic achievement of students with disabilities.
Troia, University of Washington Alert Issue 10, Summer Phonological awareness is an explicit understanding that spoken language comprises discrete units ranging from entire words and syllables to smaller intrasyllabic units of onsets, rimes, and phonemes.
Phonemic awareness is the deepest level of phonological awareness and the most crucial to success in reading and spelling. Evidence indicates that deliberate, systematic instruction in phonological awareness profits many students with and without disabilities. Siperstein, University of Massachusetts-Boston Alert Issue 9, Fall Social skills instruction refers to the systematic application of instructional procedures to teach social skills.
Educators sometimes use other terms, such as "violence prevention" and "character education", to refer to instructional programs that include the teaching of social skills. At present, there is wide variability in the implementation of social skills instruction, making it hard to describe a typical instructional program.
Review of research on social skills instruction has found limited success. Alert Issue 7, Summer Reading Recovery is an early literacy intervention that provides one-to-one tutoring to children who perform at the lowest levels in their class after one year of school reading instruction Pinnell, From the available research, it is evident that Reading Recovery works well for some students, but not all.Welcome to the new School Self-Evaluation website.
School self-evaluation is a collaborative, inclusive, and reflective process of internal school review. ashio-midori.com (GSO) is a free, public website providing information and resources necessary to help meet the educational needs of students.
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