Principles for Educating Students with Disabilities
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Principle 4: Some Students Learn Best with Specialized Instruction
While all students can learn, they may learn best through different procedures. Instructors may need to tailor instruction to the student. For example, a student with mental retardation may learn how to sharpen a pencil when the instructor breaks the task into several parts (holding a pencil, placing one end into the hole, etc.). A student who is blind may understand what "roundness" means when given an object shaped like a ring. Other students may learn pencil sharpening with a brief demonstration, or learn about concepts like "roundness" in a quick lesson. Instruction is "specialized" when it meets each student’s specific needs and characteristics.
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| Often, this is where the work of paraeducators is vital- working with individual students on their individual education programs. |
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