Teaching Practices for Children with Hearing Impairment

1. Teaching Practices for Children with Hearing Impairment

2. Why are best Teaching practices important? To survive in a new competitive world, today’s children will need creativity, problem-solving activities, a passion for learning, a dedicated work ethic and lifelong learning opportunities.

3. Teacher-Centered vs. Learner-Centered Paradigms

4. Important best practices • Engage students in active learning experiences • Set high, meaningful expectations • Provide, receive, and use regular, timely, and specific feedback • Become aware of values, beliefs, preconceptions; unlearn if necessary • Recognize and stretch student styles and developmental levels • Seek and present real-world applications • Understand and value criteria and methods for student assessment

5. Important best practices • Create opportunities for student-faculty interactions • Create opportunities for student-student interactions • Promote student involvement through engaged time and quality effort

6. Assessment and best practices in teaching and learning • Best practices in Teaching • More Student Involvement • Applications • Faculty modeling • Collaboration • Rich feedback • Curricular goals • Academic • Student-Faculty • Student-student • Cultural Diversity • Community Service • Best Learning Outcomes + = • Assessment Learning Cycle Improvements

7. Instructional Strategies / practices • Use a circular seating arrangement • Repeat the comments and questions of other students, especially those from the back rows • When appropriate, ask for a hearing volunteer to team up with the deaf or hard of hearing student for in class-assignments

8. Instructional Strategies / practices • Face the class while speaking • If there is an interruption in the class, get the deaf or hard of hearing student’s attention before resuming teaching • Use visuals frequently

9. Be flexible • Don’t assume • Use written announcements

10. Provide an outline in advance of the lesson • Use captioned films, videos and laser disks • Use interpreter where needed

11. Avoid vibrations and excessive noise • Make chalkboard notes legible • Do not talk while writing on the board

12. Establish, with the student, a procedure in case of an emergency • Get the attention of a person with the hearing impairment before speaking

13. “Just a thought….it is interesting to see that DEAF people can function in the hearing world very well while hearing people cannot function well in the DEAF world. “ – Gil Eastman ( Gallaudet Theatre Art Professor 1934-2006) Thank you!