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Remembering Information: A Teaching Strategy for Children with Learning Disabilities

S.M. Sungoh - North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, India

Abstract

Teachers of students with learning disabilities have an important role to play inside their classrooms. Their major goals is to be able to assist these students to become independent learners. Teachers should develop and provide different strategies to these students so that they can use them on their own to master a variety of learning task. These students should also be taught how to use them effectively. The paper will discuss some of the teaching remembering information strategies to help teachers and students improve the teaching learning process.

The main objectives of this paper are as follows:-

1) To evolve a strategy to teach, students with learning disabilities to remember information.

2) To Identify the conditions by which a teacher can establish to make it easier for their students to remember information.

3) To provide some suggestions which can be used to help students learn how to remember information.

There are different learning strategies that students with learning disabilities need to learn. But this paper will limit the discussion only to one learning strategy, i.e. remembering information. This discussion will be based on an analysis of the experiences of a sample of teachers of students with learning disabilities in Meghelaya, India. There is a greet need for emphasis on assisting these students to develop effective learning strategies in our state.

 

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