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This guide by Dr. Ellen J. Stoltz explores strategies for accommodating diverse learning styles to create an engaged and productive classroom environment. It discusses the integration of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile (V-A-K-T) methods alongside Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences. The text emphasizes the importance of considering students' sensory, emotional, and environmental needs in teaching. Practical solutions like sensory breaks, emotional support strategies, and environmental adjustments are provided to support different learning pathways, ensuring students can effectively demonstrate their understanding.
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Accommodation Tips Ellen J. Stoltz, Ph.D.
Introduction • Offer framework for accommodations and modifications • Engaged, productive • Professional Experience
Topics of Discussion • Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic/Tactile • Blooms’ Taxonomy • Multiple Intelligences • Sensory/Environmental Conditions
V-A-K-T • Four modalities • Learning and Processing • Recognize underpinnings of learning process • Guide how you present teaching and how students express learning
Bloom’s Taxonomy • Success at any or all levels • Recognition, Identification, Compare/Contrast • Apply VAKT • What you expect students to learn guides how you teach
Multiple Intelligences • Pathways through which students learn and demonstrate understanding • Good teaching encompasses aspects of VAKT, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and MI • How you expect students to demonstrate understanding guides how you teach
Real Life • Consideration of sensory needs: hunger, heat, thirst • Consideration of emotional needs: anxiety, fear of failure, learned helplessness • Consideration of environmental needs: sound, movement, light, proximity
What This Means • Solutions: • Sensory…nutritional snacks, water breaks, fan • Emotional…time-in/time-out, seating arrangements, planned breaks, encouraging statements, concrete expectations, facial expressions, body language • Environmental…reduce noise, motion, quiet music, stop/go signs,
Next Steps • Summary • Questions