Adapting Learning Activities
Learning activities often need to be adapted to cater for the varied abilities of students with special needs. Adapting activities involves creative thinking when planning how communication, student engagement and curriculum will come together so that every student is offered an equally rewarding learning experience. It is the role of the teacher to ensure that students with special needs can not only access knowledge but can demonstrate their understanding also.
Communication
Students can make books as they build their communication skills. The student may learn how to sign one new word each week. The book can be taken home for the students parents to learn as well. The book can stay with the student when they move classes.
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Bingo
Bingo is a wonderful example of a teaching strategy that can be used to strengthen student learning across the curriculum.
Bingo can be used with letters, numbers and photos of class mates. |
The aim of adaptions to activities is to engage student attention and make learning relevant and meaningful. Adaptions are about helping students to make achievements. Adaptions should be well planned and prioritised to meet a students learning outcomes. Often adaptions for one student are helpful for many other students.
Numeracy
This example shows how a teacher has placed stickers on the counting card to guide the student to place the correct number of counters.
Giving students visual prompts increases their ability to complete a task independently. |
Literacy
This example is a photo book that was made for a student who didn't like books. The student loved looking at the photos of himself and over time began to copy the teacher reading the Boardmaker visual sentence.
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