Addressing Barriers to Learning

Addressing Barriers to Learning
Author: Emmerentia Landsberg
Publisher: Van Schaik Publishers
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN:

It covers a wider spectrum of barriers to learning than EngelbrechtAs Inclusive Education in SA. The title covers the content of the Education White Paper 6.

The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide

The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide
Author: Howard S. Adelman
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412914531

Every teacher knows about barriers to learning and teaching that interfere with student progress and academic achievement. These barriers to learning can hamper a student's ability to participate effectively and benefit fully from classroom instruction and other educational activities. For school improvement efforts to succeed in ways that truly improve student achievement and student test scores, schools must provide students with learning supports in comprehensive, multifaceted, and cohesive ways. This innovative Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor is designed to accompany their new School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports. Together, these two handbooks comprise a complete and adaptable system for addressing barriers to learning and teaching. The authors offer specific ideas, procedures, resources, tools, and guides for motivating students, personalizing instruction and curriculum, promoting development, building school and community partnerships, and closing the gap between the learning supports students need and the learning supports they are currently receiving.

Barriers to Learning

Barriers to Learning
Author: Debra S. Lean
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607096390

A key concern for educators, administrators, professional support services personnel, parents and policy makers are barriers to learning, particularly student mental health. Statistics reveal that up to 20 percent of children and youth have mental health issues and up to 80 percent do not receive proper intervention. Barriers to Learning enables readers to gain valuable insight into the challenges presented in classrooms today. This book presents a unique classification and review of various mental health and learning issues. The authors link current education and child and youth mental health reforms to make the case for improving services to address barriers to learning. This book includes a unique School-based Integrated Student Support Model (SISSM), which, within the context of exceptional school leadership and instruction, provides a framework for timely and evidence-based integrated and collaborative services to reduce, manage, and prevent barriers to learning for all students.

Unlocking Learning and Teaching with ICT

Unlocking Learning and Teaching with ICT
Author: Helena Gillespie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317756657

By clearly identifying the barriers that can still exist to the successful integration of ICT in schools this book aims to suggest ways in which these barriers may be overcome. Current and past policy and practice is examined and where barriers are identified, the book: provides suggested strategies for the removal of these barriers recommends how to avoid the obstacles in the first place includes action points and ideas to provide ways forward uses case studies and vignettes to focus on the positive benefits of ICT. Optimistic and forward-looking, the book also explores how ICT, when effectively used, can help children learn and achieve to the best of their abilities. It is relevant for trainee and practising teachers, ICT co-ordinators and school managers in all key stages.

Mental Health in Schools

Mental Health in Schools
Author: Howard S. Adelman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1510701028

For many children, schools are the main or only providers of mental health services. In this visionary and comprehensive book, two nationally known experts describe a new approach to school-based mental health—one that better serves students, maximizes resources, and promotes academic performance. The authors describe how educators can effectively coordinate internal and external resources to support a healthy school environment and help at-risk students overcome barriers to learning. School leaders, psychologists, counselors, and policy makers will find essential guidance, including: • An overview of the history and current state of school mental health programs, discussing major issues confronting the field • Strategies for effective school-based initiatives, including addressing behavior issues, introducing classroom-based activities, and coordinating with community resources • A call to action for higher-quality mental health programming across public schools—including how collaboration, research, and advocacy can make a difference Gain the knowledge you need to develop or improve your school's mental health program to better serve both the academic and mental health needs of your students!

Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding

Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding
Author: Jan Meyer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113418994X

It has long been a matter of concern to teachers in higher education why certain students ‘get stuck’ at particular points in the curriculum whilst others grasp concepts with comparative ease. What accounts for this variation in student performance and, more importantly, how can teachers change their teaching and courses to help students overcome such barriers? This book examines the difficulties of student learning and offers advice on how to overcome them through course design, assessment practice and teaching methods. It also provides innovative case material from a wide range of institutions and disciplines, including the social sciences, the humanities, the sciences and economics.

The School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports

The School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports
Author: Howard S. Adelman
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

"Emphasizing an intervention framework that is comprehensive, multifaceted, and cohesive, and offering a sophisticated approach to rethinking and facilitating systemic changes to infrastructure and policy at school and community levels, The School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports covers strategies built on decades of research. The authors provide case studies, resources, quizzes, cartoons, and more than 75 figures, tables, and tools for analysis and capacity building to help school leaders understand, assess, and remedy the gap between the learning supports students need and the learning supports they are currently receiving."--BOOK JACKET.

UDL and Blended Learning

UDL and Blended Learning
Author: Katie Novak
Publisher: Impress, LP
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781948334310

You can develop the skills to meet the needs of learners in any learning environment. This approachable, in-depth guide unites the adaptability of Universal Design for Learning with the flexibility of blended learning, equipping educators with the tools they need to create relevant, authentic, and meaningful learning pathways to meet students where they're at, no matter the time and place or their pace and path. With step-by-step guidance and clear strategies, authors Katie Novak and Catlin Tucker empower teachers to implement these frameworks in the classroom, with a focus on cultivating community, building equity, and increasing accessibility for all learners. As we face increasing uncertainty and frequent disruption to traditional ways of living and learning, UDL and Blended Learning offers bold, innovative, inclusive solutions for navigating a range of learning landscapes, from the home to the classroom and all points in between, no matter what obstacles may lie ahead.