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Supporting Underperforming Students
Supporting Underperforming Students
Why Students Struggle With Reading?
Why Students Struggle With Reading?
If your child struggles with reading, it doesn’t mean he or she isn’t smart. There are many reasons why he or she may be struggling, and most have nothing to do with intelligence. Learning why your child is struggling can help him or her develop the skills needed to become a more skilled and confident reader.
- Oxford Learning Centres, Inc -
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How Technology Can Benefit Struggling Readers
How Technology Can Benefit Struggling Readers
The causes of reading challenges are often varied and complex. While not a silver bullet, digital tools can provide alternative methods to try with students in large, small and individual settings. Here are some significant ways that technology can help your struggling readers.
- Kristine Scharaldi, Education Consultant -
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9 Hands-On Strategies for Improving Decoding Skills
9 Hands-On Strategies for Improving Decoding Skills
When we can help kids add a visual component to their learning, we can help kids become more fluent readers. Here are nine classroom activities that can help struggling readers improve their decoding skills, use more imagery and become stronger readers.
- Karen Nelson -
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Resources for Struggling Learners Ages 6-7
Resources for Struggling Learners Ages 6-7
The time between ages 6 and 8 is a crucial one in the development of literacy skills, including decoding. If your child is struggling with learning to read, try these strategies to help build your child's literacy.
- MICHELLE ANTHONY, PHD -
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Have You Heard of Response to Intervention (RTI)?
Have You Heard of Response to Intervention (RTI)?
This article gives a detailed description of what Response to Intervention (RTI) is and how it is effective in helping students with learning and behaviour needs.
-RTI Action Network -
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Why Did That Student Fail?
Why Did That Student Fail?
Terry Heick shared the goal of diagnostic teaching and an 8 step process to support struggling students.
- TeachThought -
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It’s Time To Plan For Struggling Students From The Beginning
It’s Time To Plan For Struggling Students From The Beginning
At that point the concept of summative assessments started seeming faulty to me: at what point is it ever best practice to accept non-mastery/confusion/failure/incongruity between performance and potential?
- TeachThought -
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How to Engage Underperforming Students
How to Engage Underperforming Students
By focusing tightly on instructional strategies and PD, educators at Cochrane Collegiate Academy saved their school from closure. In just three years, they have doubled student performance, and they continue to reach higher.
- Edutopia -
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Training Materials for Teachers of Learners With Severe, Profound and Complex Learning Difficulties
Training Materials for Teachers of Learners With Severe, Profound and Complex Learning Difficulties
Website that provides modules and training materials for teachers who have students with a range of learning difficulties.
- Complexneeds.org.uk -
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11 Tips to Help Your Teen Transform Failing Grades Into Academic Success
11 Tips to Help Your Teen Transform Failing Grades Into Academic Success
Academic failure can be a place of reckoning where the teenage student needs to decide to make some dramatic changes in their educational habits. They likely need a good overhaul of their study habits and organizational skills in the class or classes they are experiencing difficulty in.
- Carnegie Dartlet. -
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How to Uplift Underperforming Students? - Tips for Parents and Teachers
How to Uplift Underperforming Students? - Tips for Parents and Teachers
Students need motivation from time to time in order to excel in their academics. A lot of factors influence the all round development of students and here is how each of them can do their bit of encouragement to nurture the positive side of under-performing students.
- Tut2Learn - GK, Exam Tips, Job Tips, Biography -
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How to Motivate Students?
How to Motivate Students?
This talk is focusing on student motivation, and in particular internal motivation: curiosity and the lust of understanding.
- TEDx Talks -
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Making Student Data Part of the Conversation
Making Student Data Part of the Conversation
Humboldt Elementary, a school once on the verge of being labeled under-performing, turned to data to move the bar on student success.
- Edutopia -
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Tips for Allowing Test Retakes
Tips for Allowing Test Retakes
Giving students a chance to redo tests and assignments can help them keep striving for mastery, if the process is well managed.
- Edutopia -
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