1. Teaching and Motivating SEN Students Julia Koifman, Beit Ekstein high school ETAI Conference Ashkelon, Israel. 4-6 July 2016

2. Programme  Introduction  Co-occurrence of SEN  How to catch their attention  Teaching strategies  Demo lesson

3. Introduction

4. Do you have any students, who  misunderstand your instructions?  have unreadable handwriting?  misspell too much?  misbehave?  answer back to teachers?  daydream during the lessons?  hate studying but come to school because they have no choice? If you have at least 3 positive questions, you have some students with special education needs (SEN).

5. restlessness; fidgeting; lack of focus; emotional control; short concentration span co-ordination / articulation; sequencing; spatial awareness; temporal awareness; environmental sensitivity social interaction (including pragmatics); intolerance of changes in routine; understanding metaphorical language numerical /temporal concepts; sequencing; tenses; time expressions phonological processing; text processing; explaining ideas Memory Speed of processing Organisation Self esteem Good and bad days Co-occurrence of SEN

6. Beit Ekstein, Israeli chain of SEN schools. Teaching Strategies  Up to 8 students in each class  Individual approach  Specific individual programs  Correcting the students’ behavior and ability of learning  Learning ESL in small groups  Preparation for final exams  Accomodations (ignoring spelling mistakes, extra time, etc)

7. How to Catch Their Attention? How to Catch Their Attention? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2QZgC10Fkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2QZgC10Fkw

8. Remediation Give dyslexic students more time to complete their class work and tests. Reduce the level of distraction in the classroom. Distractible kids should sit away from windows and close to you. Give pre-teaching activities. Provide plenty of pre-listening, pre- writing and pre-reading tasks. Practice pair-work, group-work and class discussions to make ADHD kids interested and motivated in studies. Practice multi-sensory teaching. Teach the language using visual, auditory, mnemonic, tactile and kinesthetic strategies to enhance memory which is especially useful for kids with dyspraxia.

9. If they still don’t want to study…  Ask them general questions about the weather, news, etc.  Teach proverbs about studies: No pain – no gain * No pain – no gain * London wasn’t built in a day * London wasn’t built in a day * Better late than never * Better late than never * Practice makes perfect * Practice makes perfect  Tell jokes in English but be aware that ASD student might misunderstand them. So you should explain their meaning.  Offer them table games (snakes and ladders, domino, bingo)  Show them a film  Let them download some apps and use their mobile devices.

10. Online Spelling Exercises

11. Teaching vocabulary online Teaching vocabulary online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsSf0clUGA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsSf0clUGA

12. Coloring and Highlighting This strategy is highly recommended  to catch their attention  to let them focus on something important  to avoid misunderstanding  to take the stress and frustration away

13. Teaching spelling

14. Coloring groups of irregular verbs for junior-high and high-school LD students

15. Teaching grammar structures

16. Audio-Visual Strategies  Since students affected by dyslexia have difficulties with reading and writing, they can learn new information by seeing it.  Presenting pictures as a part of the instructions makes them focused  It avoids misunderstanding and motivates them.

17. Songs Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTeUdJky9rY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTeUdJky9rY  also enhance learning vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure  make your lessons more interesting and motivating.  are perfect to develop LD teenagers’ listening skills  playing songs with images and subtitles enhances their spelling and general understanding

18. Story telling  enlarges students’ vocabulary  help them learn grammar and sentence structure  using books with pictures or e-books improve their reading skills  seeing English subtitles and repeating the words improves their spelling and pronunciation

19. Demo Lesson Thank You, M’am (by Langston Hughs)

20. Pre-reading task https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHyhYa9CQcQ

21. What do you think the woman will do to the boy?  Call the police  Take him to prison  Hit him  Something different.

22. Vocabulary practice for less advanced students https://quizlet.com/30541590/thank-you-mam-literature-moria-flash-cards/

23. Vocabulary practice for more advanced students https://quizlet.com/95069353/thank-you-mam-flash-cards/

24. While-Reading Activities  Read the story in your textbooks and listen to the recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6mSVeYeBpc  Arrange the pictures in the order they appear in the story

25. Post-Reading Tasks Answer the questions: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=thank-you-mam_1 Writing: http://montanna2015.blogspot.co.il/2011/09/thank-you-mam-letter-from- roger.html

26. Thank you! Julia Koifman jkoifman@yandex.ru