Show is Better than Tell
By Chris Charuhas
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech214.shtml
The article Show is Better Than Tell by Chris Charuhas, is an extremely well thought out article which states that it is the teacher’s job to be able to teach everyone. Chris writes that by using less text, and more visuals, it is easier for many special needs students to comprehend what is to be learned. He also noted that using large pictures with step-by-step tasks (minimal text) had a huge response from parents who praised this process. Often teachers overcomplicate lessons. By making the learning process simpler for students with learning disabilities and low English efficiencies, they where better able to grasp the topics at hand because there was less un-needed text and there was a presence of vivid visuals for them to consider. Another interesting point was that when tested online and in text, students without learning disabilities also enjoyed this learning process.
I like the article you found and completely agree that using less text, and more visual is way easier for many special needs students. Not only easier for special needs students, but it is also easier to comprehend for students like myself. I understand things when I can relate them to pictures rather than just looking and reading the text out of a book. Great job! =)
ReplyDeleteI have observed an ESE classroom that uses picture to tell the student what to do next. When it was reading time the students went to their chart of tasks for the day and next task was a picture of a book, when it was snack time their was a picture of food, and if they needed to use the restroom they took their picture of a toilet and so on throughout the day. I thought this was a unique method that the students followed very well.
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