How to Generate Learning Supports
from Creative Educators at Work: All Children Including Those with Disabilities Can Play Traditional Classroom Games, by Donna Raschke, Ph.D. and Jodi Bronson, Ed.S.From a hands-on adaptation booklet, these suggestions for general educators offer ideas for generating learning supports for students to provide enough assistance to hlep the learner but not too much support to promote learned helplessness.
- Identify the subskill that is difficult for the youngster.
- Based on direct observations, speculate why the student is having difficulty.
- Identify competing stimuli or alternative choices that are confusing the youngster and interfering with the correct response.
- Generate viable supports to help the student provide the correct response.
- Gradually fade out the supports so the youngster no longer depends on it to guide and direct his/her response.
Elementary general education and special education teachers will find lots of ways to adapt favorite board games for all children in the Creative Educator at Work book. Following are a few examples to show how to assess and make game modifications. ( Permission to use these examples received from D. Raschke). Teachers who created these game adaptations were part of an Iowa Regents Grant to include all children in the classroom.
For other strategies, try this web site from the Florida Inclusion Network with ideas, inspiration, and resources for including children with special needs in regular classrooms. http://www.rushservices. com/Inclusion
Prepared by the Renaissance Group