Strategies that Dont Work with Learning Disabled Kids And Strategies that Do

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Strategies that Dont Work with Learning Disabled
KidsAnd Strategies that Do
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Oh, you must have so much.
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PATIENCE !!
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POSITIVEversusNEGATIVEFEEDBACK
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Positive feedback changes behaviorNegative
feedback only stops behavior
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Successive Approximations

• Reward Direction, Not Perfection

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Top Ten Reasons Why Punishment is Ineffective
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• Theyve been punished enough!

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• 2. Punishment does not eliminate behaviorsit
  merely represses them

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• 3. Punishment does not model desired behavior

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• 4. Punishment models aggression and use/abuse of
  power

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• 5. The message gets lost in the fear, anxiety,
  stress and anger

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• 6. The child associates the punishment with the
  PUNISHER, not with the offending behavior

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• 7. Punishment does not transfer or generalize to
  other settings.

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• 8. Punishment is only effective as long as the
  threat of punishment exists

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• 9. Child loses ability to control/monitor/evaluat
  e her own behavior

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• 10. Punishment works only if there is a
  degree of motivation to please the punisher

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Isolation/Time Out
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Corporal Punishment
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Forced Apologies
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Sarcasm
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My son didnt break the window
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My son didnt break the window
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My son didnt break the window
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My son didnt break the window
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My son didnt break the window
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My son didnt break the window
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Confiscating Goods
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Cheap Shots
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Imposition of school tasks
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Once riding through old Baltimore
Heart-filled, head-filled with
glee I saw a Baltimorean Keep
looking straight at me
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Now I was eight and very small And he was no whit
bigger And so I smiled but he poked out
his tongue And
called me Nigger
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I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until
December But of all the things that
happened there
Thats all that I remember
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Minor Choice Technique
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Millimeter at a time

• Millimeter Concession
• Millimeter Admission
• Millimeter Recognition

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Situational Analysis
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Earn a chance to take a chance
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Getting a commitment
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Management X 4
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ABCs of Motivation

• Goal must be attractive
• Amount of effort is realistic
• Likeliness of attainment

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• Climb Mount Everest
• Lottery ticket
• Beat up

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1. 2. 3.
A A A
B B B
C C C
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Agenda Setting
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• Anticipatory Set
• Collect/ Correct homework
• Discuss Essay contest
• Lecture on Presidential Succession
• Johns report of FDR
• Ma exercises
• Distribute/explain homework
• Video on Pearl Harbor

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Strand Objectives

• Gabe - talks too loudly
• Dave - illegible handwriting
• Melinda - interrupts
• Shawn - doesnt participate
• Tammy - chronically late
• Zak - times tables master

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Broken Record TechniqueL. Canter
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Why Argue?

• Power/control
• Positive Reinforcement
• Derailing

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FAIRNESS means that everyone gets the same
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FAIRNESS means that everyone gets what he/she
needs
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EQUALLY1000
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FAIRLY?
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There is nothing so unequal as the equal
treatment of unequals
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The squeaky wheel NEEDS the grease
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