2018 Workshop Talk | 59:30 | All Grade Levels, General Classroom
Summary
Are these your students? Your student reads well, but cannot write about what he reads; another student excels in math, but has great difficulty reading; a rhetoric student writes quality papers, but cannot track classroom discussions. These three students appear to be bright, yet their learning difficulties remain a mystery. How does the school identify what is wrong? Can the classical and Christian school serve the student? Do these students have learning disabilities? What is a learning disability? This workshop will answer these questions and provide practical tools for evaluating and helping such a student. Teaching methods to enhance instruction for all students at the grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric levels that result in assisting students with learning differences will be discussed. Reference charts will be provided for teachers, administrators, and parents: How to Identify Students with Potential Learning Disabilities and Teaching Tools for Specific Disabilities.
Speaker
Laura Tucker is a founder and was the director of instruction of Rockbridge Academy, a classical and Christian school in Millersville, MD, from 1995–2011. She has over 30 years of experience in K–12 education as a teacher, administrator, reading specialist, and educational diagnostician. She holds an MEd from Loyola University and a national certification for educational diagnosticians. She and her husband, Rob, an ACCS national board member, have two adult sons who attended Rockbridge Academy.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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