In my blog post about the evaluation process for exceptional learners, I briefly mentioned that students who qualify for special education within the public school system receive an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Here in...
Private Anabaptist schools function with relative freedom, which includes the ability of parents and teachers to decide to individualize instruction at an intense level. Within the public school, some individualization can happen...
“Learning disability” is a term that has a history that is broad, varied, and astonishingly disputed, given how popular the term is. The legal definition for learning disability comes from the federal law IDEA: “Specific learning...
Conservative Anabaptist schools bless many communities. It is common for the average student in a private school to succeed academically beyond his average public-school peers. At times, however, private schools need to humbly...
Students with dyslexia see things backwards. This is the most common myth about dyslexia—that something is wrong with the eyes or the vision portion of the brain. While legitimate vision problems do exist, they are not the cause...
A specific (and the most common) kind of learning disability The most common reason for a student to need special education services is because they have some form of learning disability. Within that broad term of “specific...
Bibliography of Resources for Learning Disabilities
Bibliography Canadian Resources Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario. Recommended Practices for Assessment, Diagnosis and Documentation of Learning Disabilities. Web. Learning Disabilities & Special Education Fried,...
Recommended Resources for Developing Visual Presentations
Visual presentation tips (PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote): 10 Powerpoint Tips for Preparing a Professional Presentation Tips To Create Professional PowerPoint Presentations 10 tips for better slide decks
The resources on this page were compiled by Lynell Nissley for the use of students in her Faith Builders classes. All Kinds of Minds Learning Framework --one page Parent Toolkit --Read Introduction, then see additional links...
"Skip-counting charts" are visuals created to accompany the Semple Math skip-counting songs. I printed the blank ones double-sided and laminated them or put them in sheet protectors to make them dry-erasable. The students write...
"Multiplication blanks" was created for students who are disorganized when doing long division with multi-digit divisors and multi-digit products (e.g., 36,281/42). One multiplication "square" is used per multi-digit problem. It...
"Equation Town" is a system I created for a junior high student who had significant difficulty following the order of operations for solving basic equations. He had already had Semple Math, so he was familiar with stories as...
"Basic Fluency Pages" is a set of drill sheets I created to add on to the Barton fluency pages. Barton drills include individual letter sounds and three letter combinations, but I found some of my students needed two-letter...
