Every student has a way that they learn best. There is not one way to teach a group of students. With each lesson there should be various ways to learn about a topic, that's what Multiple Means of Representation is.The more ways that a learner's senses can be used in a lesson the more connections can be made. When more connections are made the more learning and remembering will occur. If we can see something, hear something, read something and do something we are going to remember it and apply it in real life situations. When there is connections and applications made by students they will learn. Here is a great example of Multiple Means of Representation from the article:
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst.
Adaptations Book was shortened (page removed and lines were cut from text).
Repeated story line Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Objects used to promote Gum, candy bar, cereal box, shoes
meaning while reading
Character name Student's name used for character--Alexander
adaptation
Surprise element added When the lights burned out in the story, the lights were turned off in the classroom
near end of story
A goal in my future classroom is to provide learners with different options to learn. Through group work, technology, artistic expression and oral presentations there should be a way that each student is comfortable learning about a topic as well as sharing what they know
Works Cited
Browder, Diane M., et al. "Teaching Elementary Students with Multiple Disabilities to Participate in Shared Stories." Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), vol. 33, no. 1-2, 01 Jan. 2008, pp. 3-12. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.uvu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ838735.
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