Asset-Based Approach ✔✔-An asset-based (or strengths-based) approach to education builds
learning around a student's strengths and existing
... [Show More] knowledge, rather than focusing on what they
lack.
-the asset-based approach views diversity in thought, culture, and traits as positive assets that
should be valued.
-based on the idea that teaching to a student's strengths helps them to feel valued, build their
confidence, and reach their full potential. The approach seeks to celebrate differences and
eliminate biases that hold back certain student demographics, especially those with disabilities,
students of color, and English language learners (ELLs).
deficit-based approach: ✔✔focuses on students' shortcomings.
instructional strategies that work well in an asset-based teaching approach: ✔✔-continually
adjusting flexible groupings according to each child's current assessed knowledge and skills
-providing students with freedom of choice and autonomy in their learning
-drawing on prior knowledge that students bring into the classroom
Dyslexia ✔✔-learning disorder that affects a student's ability to read, spell, write, and speak.
-Students identified as having dyslexia typically experience some or all of the following
characteristics:1. difficulty with phonological awareness (including phonemic awareness)
2. difficulty reading words in isolation
3. difficulty decoding unfamiliar words
4. slow, inaccurate, or labored (without prosody) oral reading
5. difficulty spelling
6. limited reading fluency
-As a result, these students often experience difficulties in reading comprehension and/or written
expression and limited vocabulary growth due to limited reading experiences.
Early Indicators for dyslexia: ✔✔1. Preschool:
-Delayed speech
-Difficulty with rhyming
-Difficulty pronouncing words
-Poor auditory memory of nursery rhymes and chants
-Difficulty adding new words to vocabulary
-Poor word retrieval skills (or inability to recall the right word)
-Trouble learning and naming letters and numbers
-Dislike of print (e.g. doesn't enjoy following along as a book is read aloud)
2. Kinder-1st:
-Difficulty breaking words into smaller parts or syllables
-Difficulty identifying and manipulating sounds
-Difficulty remembering the names of letters and their sounds
-Difficulty decoding single words (reading words in isolation) [Show Less]