A best practice strategy, but especially if your student struggles with attention and working memory Use it in Your Instructional Practice 1)Objective: Present learning content in small, manageable chunks so students can understand and retain more easily wit... View More
For students learning from videos or virtually, particularly those with weaker attention, working memory, processing or reasoning Teach It! 1)Objective: Break down content instruction into manageable chunks so it can be more easily understood and remembered.... View More
If your student feels easily overwhelmed remembering too much information Teach It! 1)Objective: Students will remember a large amount of information by chunking or breaking it down into more manageable pieces. 2)Instruction and Practice: Model for students... View More
If your student feels overwhelmed or uncertain at starting a writing assignment How to Apply It! 1) While you might tend to write from beginning to end, breaking up a writing assignment into distinct chunks and starting in the middle, or wherever you have ... View More
If your student has difficulty with following through on tasks or gets easily overwhelmed Teach It! 1)Objective: Task cards will help break up or chunk tasks for students so the work feels more manageable than it does on a single page or worksheet. 2) Teach... View More
If your student has weaker working memory or reasoning and you are introducing complex information How to Apply It! 1) You can help students learn new information by minimizing the amount of effort required with their weaker skills. 1) For students with we... View More
If your student has difficulty with prioritization, task management or gets easily overwhelmed Teach It! 1) Objective: Teach students to break task lists into "must do" and "can do" categories, so they know they can accomplish the most important items. 2) ... View More
If your students have difficulty staying focused during a lecture-style class How to Apply It! 1) Lectures are still important for learning core foundational knowledge, even in the project-based classroom, but the amount of lecture time should take into cons... View More