Strategies

Stategies are skills that the students can be taught that will help them to learn in all subject areas. The use of strategies is intended to help the studnets to develop the tools that they need to learn in all siruations. Strategies are not limited to special education students, they are often used by all learners and often without even realizing that they are being employed. When developing a strategy for an individual student it is important to include them in the process, if they can see how the change benefits them then they are more likely to work towards it. Involving the student in the process also encourages meta-cognition. This encourages the student to consider their own thoughts and the way that they learn best. I think that the use of strategies could be very instrumental in the learning process for some students. I think that it would be beneficial as a teacher to share the strategy that one of the students may be using with all students in the classroom. Giving all students the opportunity to use the strategy can help you to see which students feel they need extra help, it can also encourage students to open their mind to strategies and help them to develop their own unique strategy that they could use in the future. I can see great benefits for all students with the use of strategies in the classroom and it is definitely a concept that I will employ in my classroom as a future teacher.