Evidence Based Practices for Teaching Students With Mild to Moderate Disabilities
Academic Strategies
This page introduces evidence based strategies that are beneficial in the students academic education. Click on the image of each academic strategy to see what they entail.
Academic Brain Breaks
Brain breaks are quick, structured breaks using physical movement, mindfulness exercises, or sensory activities.
Academic Games
Academic games are educational tools used to further education while keeping the classroom interactive.
Academic Directed Written Behavior Contracts
A written, signed plan that is agreed upon by both student and teacher (and sometimes parents), that outlines expected student behavior.
Art + Illustration
Art and illustration use graphics to communicate a message or lesson.
Assistive Technology
Assistive technology is a term for assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities
Behavior Specific Praise Statements
BSPS are statements that are positive, measurable, observable & short in response to a students behavior.
Choice Boards
Choice Boards are a simple strategy that teachers can use to provide their students with choices in the kinds of activities they are going to complete
Choral Responding
Choral Response is a verbal repetition strategy that encourages students to respond in unison when prompted with a cue by an instructor.
Classwide Peer Tutoring
Peer tutoring is an instructional strategy that consists of student partnerships, linking high achieving students with lower achieving students or those with comparable achievement, for structured reading and math study sessions.
Electronic Portfolios
A portfolio is a tool that provides a clear picture of the learner’s growth & development.
Foldables
A Foldable is a three-dimensional, student- made (and/or teacher-made) interactive graphic organizer based upon a skill.
Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer is a visual and graphic display that depicts the relationships between facts, terms, and or ideas within a learning task.
Guided Notes
Guided notes are instructor-prepared handouts that provide students with background information and standard cues with specific spaces to write key facts, concepts, and/or relationships during the lecture.
Immediate Academic Feedback
Instant feedback is when information is provided contextually and “on-demand”, in immediate response to a learners' action and in the flow of learning. It helps a learner deepen their understanding.
In-Class Break Rooms
A small structured area that requires physical movement or sensory activities.
LINCS
LINCS is a strategy that is used to improve one’s memory through mnemonics.
The method is used to help students ability to acquire the meanings of new words.
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Mnemonics
A mnemonic device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory for better understanding.
Movement
Movement helps with keeping the classroom interactive while increasing student academic learning.
Music & Rhythm
Prompting the students to sing or dance or create a way to help remind them of a objective through the use of the art of music and rhythm.
PALS
PALS promotes service, the development of interpersonal skills and community-mindedness, which helps to create a more positive and productive school environment.
Positive Self Talk
Positive self-talk is an internal dialogue that makes a person feel good about themselves.
Praise Notes
Praise notes are slips of paper with feedback on them given to the student immediately after performing a behavior that is correct.
Pre-correction
Precorrection is a classroom management strategy that is used to prepare students before there is a situation that could create misbehavior.
Response Cards
Response cards are cards or dry erase boards that students can hold up to answer a question or give an opinion in lieu of verbal responding.
Speech-To-Text
STT is a type of assistive technology that turns verbal conversations/responses into text on a device.
Sticky Notes
Sticky notes give students the ability to write down notes and mark important places while reading or learning.