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From: "Laura McCaffery" <Lmccaffery@acpl.lib.in.us>
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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:3876] Re: Materials for Special Ed
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I have been a longtime lurker on this list and finally
decided to add a comment. I have worked with literacy
programs as a librarian, board member, speaker and author
for many years. I agree that teaching, or tutoring if you will, in
literacy and/or ESL often involves the need for uses of special ed
training and tactics. I have found that many of the adults going
into the adult literacy programs really were special ed students. I
think I would want to know a lot more about the marriage of special
ed and esl instruction before I totally embraced it. Age. Literacy
in what language if any. There are many components to weigh. No
matter if it is ESL, special ed, regular ed, or gifted ed...the ILP
is what I prefer ...if only I had the time. What I have discovered
over the years is that much material that I use for ESL is multi
generational. I like to use the book with the lowest reading level
that will appeal to the learner from middle school through adult.
That way, if I am dealing with a family situation in literacy or ESL
all can learn together. laura mccaffery
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 17:44:33 -0500 (EST)
> Reply-to: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov
> From: Dwyoho@aol.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>
> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:3875] Re: Materials for Special Ed
> I take the approach that just about any teaching "materials" are useful for
> someone. As a teacher I was an awful packrat, and gathered materials for
> needs as IK identified them. Part of our problem is a tendency to want a
> silver bullet. Good special ed and ESL teachers have the skills to adapt
> what they have to what is needed, a rather magical art. They also know you
> can't rely on just what's in catalogs, or at the library. They use just
> about anything at hand, from commercial television to the comics, and create
> what they need when they can't find it. They also know how to get learners
> to create materials for future lessons even as they are studying the matter
> at hand. They also know that what works today with this learner may not
> work the next time with that learner.
>
> I know I haven't been much practical help, but hopefully this response will
> spark discussion and thought.
>
> Deborah W. Yoho
> Chief Executive Officer
> Greater Columbia Literacy Council
> 921 Woodrow Street
> Columbia, SC 29205
> 803/765-2555 dwyoho@aol.com
>
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Laura Hibbets McCaffery
Readers Services
Allen County Public Library
Fort Wayne, Indiana
"All opinions are mine alone. Others are
free to agree..or disagree."
"...all things are to to be examined and called into question. There
are no limits set to thought." Edith Hamilton, THE GREEK WAY.
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