Incorporating multiple senses through strategies like chewing gum, using a vibrating pen, or sitting on a ball chair can support focus, Attention, and engagement for some learners.
However, when inquiry and experimentation are valued and scaffolded, Curiosity can flourish, and these experiences can develop into more advanced Critical Thinking and reasoning skills learners can use to explore increasingly complex questions about how the world works.
Supported independent reading, sometimes called Scaffolded Silent Reading, is when teachers scaffold and monitor learners' independent reading time, offering students a choice of accessible texts, and periodic check-in's with individual students to provide guidance and accountability.
When Working Memory is overtaxed, a learner can seem to be distracted because they may struggle to recall and use information simultaneously.
Music and dance supports young learners in a myriad of ways, including supporting their engagement and motivation, connecting with cultural background, and offering structure during play.
Flipped classrooms allow learners to self-pace their learning outside of the classroom, providing additional time for those learners who may need it, including multilingual learners or learners with learning disabilities, This also can help to build Background Knowledge before engaging more deeply with the content in the classroom, supporting transfer and Core Academic Literacies.
Research shows that, along with traditional reading comprehension strategies, learners use unique strategies to read the non-linear, hyperlinked structure of online texts.
Flipped classrooms allow learners to self-pace their learning outside of the classroom, providing additional time for those learners who may need it, including multilingual learners or learners with learning disabilities, This also can help to build Background Knowledge before engaging more deeply with the content in the classroom, supporting transfer and Core Academic Literacies.
Perspective seeking is key to developing a Learner Mindset and essential in the digital world where algorithms are easily trained to provide information that confirms a person's views rather than providing alternative perspectives.
Speech-to-text can support adult learners with and without physical impairments, especially in Composition, while also increasing independence, decreasing anxiety, and developing a Learner Mindset with the error correction process embedded in the software.
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