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Students with Special Needs You may have students with special needs. English may be a second language for some students, some may be visually impaired, others hearing impaired, and others may be physically challenged. This week’s teaching tips focus on activities and other ways to meet the special needs of your students.

Active Learning—Part 1 Adult learners like to be engaged in their learning. Active learning engages learners in the learning process. Passive learning disengages learners. This week’s tips are designed to help you with active learning techniques and activities in a variety of subjects.

Active Learning—Part 2 Learning requires active participation by learners. Students don’t learn by sitting and listening to lectures, reading textbooks, and answering questions on tests. Students must talk and write about their learning, and relate their learning to experiences. This is active learning, the subject of this week’s tips.

Teamwork and Cooperative Learning—Part 1 Teamwork, or cooperative learning groups, provide students with the opportunity to work and solve problems together. Teamwork increases respect for others and helps students use and develop interpersonal relationship skills. This week’s Teaching Tips focus on the goals and activities of teamwork and cooperative learning.

Teamwork and Cooperative Learning—Part 2 The success of cooperative learning groups depends on both the instructor and the students. Instructors must coach students and provide groups with guidance as well as introduce methods of group work. Students must accomplish their team’s goal and their own individual goals. This week’s Teaching Tips focus on both instructors and learners.

Learning Styles—Part 1 Students learn at different rates and in different ways. This week’s Teaching Tips focus on the ways students learn. By incorporating different learning methods into your teaching strategies, you’ll provide every student with an optimum learning experience. See this week’s Download Depot for a check on students’ learning styles.

Learning Styles—Part 2 In addition to the basic learning styles—verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, musical/rhythmic, and bodily/kinesthetic—there are three learning styles that have to do with how students relate to others and the natural world. This week’s tips focus on these learning styles.

Teamwork/Cooperative Learning When students work together in teams for cooperative learning, they are engaging in an active learning process. Working together activates the mind with new inspiration and adds to the effectiveness of learning. This week’s tips give you suggestions for group work.

Linking the Real World to the Classroom Today’s education is fast-paced and global. It requires the integration of studies with the rest of students' lives. Thus, bringing the real world into the classroom is the focus of this week’s Teaching Tips.


Free Downloads

Students With Special Needs Questionnaire
A student questionnaire designed to identify how you can facilitate a quality learning experience for students with special needs.

Self-Dialogue
Questions to prompt student entries into learning journals to be used throughout a course.

Reading Anticipation Guide
Instrument to help students learn actively while reading.

Teamwork Guidelines
Ideas for rules while working in a group.

Teamwork Assessment
Questionnaire for students to evaluate their group work experiences.

Determining Your Learning Style
Questionnaire to help determine your students' learning styles.

Learning Styles Assessment
Tool to help students determine whether they are interpersonal, intrapersonal, or naturalistic learners.

Action Statement
Journal for students to evaluate how a course can affect their personal and professional life.

What Do I Want to Do
Self-assessment to help students clarify their motivations for enrolling in college and where they want to take their lives


 Feature Articles

Incorporating Learning Styles into Your Teaching Strategy An explanation of the different learning styles of adults, to help you respond with appropriate instructional strategies.

Building a Learning Team How to form a learning team using your students' diverse backgrounds and capabilities.



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