Friday, September 19, 2014

In teaching a lesson, when should you use cues, questions and advanced organizers? 

Cues I feel are going to be utilized more intentionally in the instruction and the guided practice because you want to help them build their knowledge but not do all of the work for them. The questions can be utilized throughout the entire lesson, but I feel they will be more useful in the independent practice and the introduction. Questions of all levels get things rolling, start getting them thinking, and allow you to find out what they know and what conclusions they can draw by themselves. Advanced organizers can be used throughout any lesson depending on what you are teaching and what the organizer is that you are using.

What adaptations might these need in working with students who have hearing loss?

Adaptations that may need to be made when working with children who have a hearing loss would be maybe the type or level of question, the level of difficulty or how busy an advanced organizer is, how strong or obvious your cues are etc. The main thing to keep in mind when working with children who have a hearing loss is that they have to learn everything directly. They don't hear things and learn and work through them like people with typical hearing can. So whatever you use or whatever you ask or hint toward, you need to make sure you are working on that child's level of functioning!

Homework:

My thoughts on homework are mixed. I feel like homework is a really great thing because it is the true independent practice. However, unless I have a classroom of my own or there is something specific we are working on that I want them to carry over to home or to practice at home I don't see myself adding to my student's workload. That doesn't really make sense because they are getting a lot of homework in other classes already.

1 comment:

  1. I'm glad you mentioned that information has to be directly taught for students who have hearing loss. It's important to keep in mind and prepare for lessons. I wonder if we could determine more specific times we use cues and when we use questions or do we use both simultaneously? I find myself using more questions than cues especially at the older grades. I use cues when students are struggling to answer a question or complete a task. In your lessons this week, maybe look at how you use these. Good comments and thoughts.

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