Teaching methods for helping struggling children

 

 

Most students aren't born good learners. The Personality of the individual plays a big role in a child's ability to learn. Many children may struggle to learn a concept or complete an activity. When a child is a struggling learner, it can be scary.

   There are many possible reasons for the child’s struggles. He may have physical disabilities or he maybe has not been taught in a proper way. For example, he may need the structure and logic of a phonetic approach to reading, but he is being taught with a whole language approach.

  The more able the teacher to provide a child, with respect to their learning environment, activities, and style, the more engaged and motivated a child will become to learn.

  So Teacher needs to work with specific techniques with struggling learner than others students in order to find ways to meet those children’s need. Here are some helpful teaching methods for those children.

Scaffolding

    When using scaffolding learning technique with young children, a teacher will provide students with support by making a bridge between what students already know and what they cannot do on their own.  For example they can ask probing questions like “What do you think would happen if we didn't build the school quite so big?" this kind of question will encourage a child to come up with an answer independently. Or teacher can also make suggestions: If a child is having trouble completing a project, offering hints or partial solutions or asking suggested questions can be helpful way without giving the direct answer. For example, "That block tower keeps falling down. One way we could fix it is by putting all the bigger blocks on the bottom. What other ways do you think we could help it stay up?"

 Teach Just One New Concept at a Time

   When giving much information the children’s memory can’t attend this quantity of new information. So if we give them one concept at a time this will allows concepts and skills to be more easily stored in the long-term memory. Then large amounts of meaningful learning will occur.

  Multisensory Instruction

Using senses help Children learn best. This learning happens when they use sight, sound, and touch to learn new information. When children can see the concept of what explained, hear about it, and then do activities, so it will be easier for them to understand. The combination of various activities uses sense will have multiple pathways to the brain.

 Game-based learning

   Using games provides deeper learning and develops a new skills; it helps motivate children to learn. When a child is engaged with the game, their mind will accept  learning a new things . Even if the game is a video game or military simulator, it will provide the added benefit of motivating children to want to engage in the learning process and want to learn more.

   Game-based learning is a great way for parents and teachers to introduce new ideas, grammar, concepts, and knowledge in a way that motivates children to learn

Keep Lessons Short but Frequent

  Short but frequent lessons are much better than long but not understandable lessons. In a short lesson, children will be more attention, and teacher accomplishes more. Start with 15-20 minutes per day, five days a week. Then adjust the length of the lessons up or down according to your individual child’s attention span and specific needs.

     And many other ways can be used for helping students by asking questions while giving the lesson, give the ideas by picturing it, make predictions about what will happen next, make summarization after each idea and use very simple word .

    So teaching for struggling learner is difficult, and teacher can make it a lot easier by many ways.  And then students will learn to do things in life that you never dreamed were possible!