OT Any Special Needs Teachers, Or Any Teachers Out There?!

[omgitssydthekid]

Hi I have posted before about the internship I do with my school and teaching special needs students, and I would love y'alls help again! We have been assigned to do a DI lesson, and I am stuck. I want to do worksheet activity and then a game to go with it. These are high school aged kids (10th-12th grade) and their abilities range from kindergarten to third grade! I was thinking about doing math since I did comm arts last time, but I am open to anything! All help is greatly appreciated!

 

[fiercerando88]

Hi I have posted before about the internship I do with my school and teaching special needs students, and I would love y'alls help again! We have been assigned to do a DI lesson, and I am stuck. I want to do worksheet activity and then a game to go with it. These are high school aged kids (10th-12th grade) and their abilities range from kindergarten to third grade! I was thinking about doing math since I did comm arts last time, but I am open to anything! All help is greatly appreciated!

When's it due? My mother's the Special Ed Director and the Special Ed Math teacher at a high school and I'm sure she'd be able to help. I've been working with special needs kids for a few years sporadically, but I'm more of an English/LA person, math is not my strong suit at all, otherwise I'd help too! Feel free to PM if you have any specific questions I can send along to mi madre!

 

[ACEDAD]

Hate to be stupid, but what's a DI lesson?

 

[omgitssydthekid]

Hate to be stupid, but what's a DI lesson?

A DI lesson is differentiated instruction where you change the lesson based on each individual student's needs! And it's not a stupid question

 

[omgitssydthekid]

When's it due? My mother's the Special Ed Director and the Special Ed Math teacher at a high school and I'm sure she'd be able to help. I've been working with special needs kids for a few years sporadically, but I'm more of an English/LA person, math is not my strong suit at all, otherwise I'd help too! Feel free to PM if you have any specific questions I can send along to mi madre!

It's due whenever I schedule it But I figured one out and got it approved last night!

I'm giving them a worksheet on patterns, and there are three different worksheets of varying difficulty that I will pass out to them accordingly. And after that, we are going to make a pattern with all of the kids in the class using stars and diamonds that they get to color!

 

[ACEDAD]

A DI lesson is differentiated instruction where you change the lesson based on each individual student's needs! And it's not a stupid question

So it's similar to an IEP (Individual Education Plan) then.

 

[MissBee]

So it's similar to an IEP (Individual Education Plan) then.

Not exactly. An IEP is a legally binding document that outlines a student's goals and how those goals will be met. Differentiated Instruction is one way to deliver a lesson. It could be teaching a lesson to the whole group and then giving each kid a practice worksheet that is tailored to their abilities and needs. It could also be splitting the class into groups based on abilities and meeting with each group to individually teach a skill/concept at their level (i.e.: the big skill is addition....Group 1 could be working on single digit addition with sums up to 18, Group 2 could be working on 2 digit addition with out regrouping, and Group 3 could be working on 2 digit addition with regrouping).

 

[ACEDAD]

Not exactly. An IEP is a legally binding document that outlines a student's goals and how those goals will be met. Differentiated Instruction is one way to deliver a lesson. It could be teaching a lesson to the whole group and then giving each kid a practice worksheet that is tailored to their abilities and needs. It could also be splitting the class into groups based on abilities and meeting with each group to individually teach a skill/concept at their level (i.e.: the big skill is addition....Group 1 could be working on single digit addition with sums up to 18, Group 2 could be working on 2 digit addition with out regrouping, and Group 3 could be working on 2 digit addition with regrouping).

Excellent explanation. Thanks.