Steps to Effective Teaching

Feeling frustrated that you are not making much headway teaching the child with a disability? Have you carried out these steps before teaching?

1) Carried out simple tests, observations and other information collecting strategies to find
out the child's strengths and weaknesses in the various areas of instruction?

2) Identified teaching objectives based on what the child was unable to do?

3) Planned your teaching strategies based on the profile of the child?

4) Taught according to the child's ability level in the area you are teaching?

5) Applied the necessary accomodations and modifications?

6) When teaching, did you really provide sufficient support for the child? Or were you
merely asking the child a lot of questions?

If you had done all the above, then there is a strong likelihood that you will see progress. Progress is seen in small improvements, such as being able to do a simple thing that he/she was unable to do before. And it takes time, so you need to have a lot of patience.