Special Education
Teaching Students with Learning and Behavioural Differences
A Resource Guide for Teachers
This section includes strategies for classroom teachers to use to assist students to behave appropriately in school. These strategies can be used:
- as pre-referral intervention,
- as ideas for the development of an Individual Education Plan (IEP), or
- as coping mechanisms to be used while the classroom teacher awaits specialist consultation and/or assessment.
Teachers using these strategies should keep in mind that this is intended to be a manageable list of ideas, useful to busy classroom teachers, rather than a comprehensive list of all available strategies. A blank page for notes is included at the back of this section so teachers can record additional strategies they have used and found effective. If the variety of strategies in this resource guide are not adequate alternatives, consider accessing the services of specialist personnel.
The Ministry of Education handbook Students with Intellectual Disabilities: A Resource Guide for Teachers also contains suggestions for teachers who are looking for strategies to help their students. Of particular interest are the sections on adaptations and working with teacher assistants. Additional resources are listed at the back of this resource guide.
