– Provide inquiry instruction, blended learning opportunities, instruction via the workshop model, and personalized learning opportunities.
– Provide students with the tools they need to be successful – pencil grippers, certain types of papers, preferential seating, etc.
– Engage in professional learning opportunities wholeheartedly and critically consider the professional learning opportunities you engage in.
– Learn about your students needs. If they need it, seek out opportunities for students to receive specialized reading instruction, math instruction, speech instruction, counseling services.
– Strengthen the connection between school and home so all caregivers have the knowledge and resources to help their students learn. Host caregiver information meetings at the beginning of the year, send home educational resources to caregivers, provide caregivers with newsletters of on going academic happenings and include ways to practice skills at home, send home information on dyslexia to caregivers with a dyslexic child.
– Include culturally responsive practices. This looks like the way you respond to students and treat their differences. Read books that focus on diversity. Highlight the fact that EVERYONE is different and our differences make us SPECIAL!
– Differentiate the work you give to the students.
– Provide small group and one-on-one instruction for students.
– Have different expectations for assignments – shortening assignments for some students, allowing some students to submit verbal responses, allowing extended time.
– Students having resource teachers and/or aids to provide them with additional support in the classroom.
– Provide students with resources in their native language and/or their current reading level.
– Provide students access & the ability to choose equitable materials: books on different subjects, different types of papers, flexible seating options, etc.