Section 5 (optional section)

More Strategies

This section is optional. Choose the activites that will best suit your program.

This section provides more concrete examples for tutors. It also gives tutors practice in choosing some specific strategies to help them work with learners’ problem areas.

None of the following activities are part of the core tutor training. Because this section is quite in-depth, it is more appropriate if tutors already have been working with learners and have covered units like Reading, Writing, Spelling and Numeracy.

Activity A (optional activity)

Skill characteristics and strategies

Why choose this activity?

This activity introduces tutors to a handout rich in detailed strategies that respond to a variety of learning disabilities and challenges. They can use the handout with the case study in the next activity.

Use of handout

Materials and equipment

Handout 10.11: Skill Characteristics and Strategies Chart (7 pages)

Preparation

Copy handout.
Read over the handout yourself.

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

  1. Hand out the Skill Characteristics and Strategies Chart pages.
  2. Point out the various headings.
  3. Read a sample from the chart.
  4. Mention that this is just a sampling of strategies and that the strategies might be inappropriate for some learners.


A direct approach to teaching strategies is more effective than a discovery approach.

J. A. Fowler in Learning Disabilities Training: A new approach