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Teaching the Reluctant Learner
Johnny can’t read. Or to be accurate, Johnny won’t read. He’s a bright, personable, energetic kid who can focus on a video game for hours. Yet, in class, he is disengaged. He has a problem learning. What are effective teaching strategies – effective instructional strategies? How can you make him “like” school? Whose fault is it? the teacher? your home environment? his friends? heaven forbid, your genes? Ellen Stowers teaches us about reluctant learners, based on her 40+ years of dealing with these challenging students at every level of the school system.
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Curriculum Description: “Teaching the Reluctant Learner” is a sequence of three courses. The courses are designed to help those ...
Identifying the Reluctant Learner Course By the end of the first course, you should be able to articulate what a reluctant learner is and is not, and identify basic educational theory that applies, identify the behavior associated with your reluctant learner among specific normative behaviors
Strategies for working with the Reluctant Learner Course The major course objectives are to assess one’s own behavior with respect to the reluctant learner and interpret/apply learned strategies for eliciting a positive response to the applied techniques.
Advocating for the Reluctant Learner Course The major objectives of this course are to learn to abide by current laws, discern what is appropriate documentation and documentation access, and understand appropriate intervention to protect the rights of reluctant learners.
