Recommended Instructional Options for Domain Specific Services
Below are some instructional options that the Advanced Learning Department recommends to teachers to support students receiving domain specific services.
Literacy
- Utilize pre-assessment to drive instruction
- Use higher level reading materials
- Provide opportunities to explore current events and other topics through non-fiction materials
- Probe with advanced comprehension and open-ended questions
- Include writing projects/extensions for writing assignments
- Provide tiered assignments/choice menus
- Group students based on reading levels
Math
- Reduce repetitious instruction and practice
- Utilize pre-assessment and provide rich tasks, design challenges and extensions in areas of mastery
- Establish differentiated math groups
- Engage in math talk through active listening, questioning and explaining
- Utilize strategies that focus on mathematical reasoning
- Provide open-ended projects
Nonverbal
- Provide advanced, abstract and complex material at a faster pace
- Engage in hands-on experiences and use of manipulatives
- Provide rich problem-solving tasks and design challenges
- Allow creation of models, pictures and diagrams during learning and to show understanding
- Promote creation of own methods to solve problems
- Provide tiered assignments/choice menus