Discussion
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Comments
Kayla,
I appreciate the detail in your post regarding cues. We all use them (if we teach) and need reminders on what works best and what doesn't. Everyone learns in different ways and we need to remember that.
Thanks!
Kayla, thank you for starting this collaboration but I think you covered everything, I was looking in my notes for something to add but you nailed it. All I have to add is the main idea for instructional cues is to teach a student how to do something correctly, and you can do that verbally or by modeling. Teachers use teaching cues to describe to the students where to start with the skill and then describe how to do the skill. I think that it is important for a teacher to have these cues so their students don't get lost, and just like you stated that a teacher should't have more than 3 because then the student will get lost and won't remember. Thank you again for starting this post. Great job.
Megan Monaghan
We haven't covered everything here yet, at least based on my outline of teaching cues. For starters, we need to spell the title correctly. Then, if you look at some of my comments by clicking the "revisions" and see the comments, that can help us revising this this document. I suspect there are some other uses of the term "cues" that I haven't listed that would also be good to add.
You have gotten a good start on this project. The first few areas you covered you did very well and very extensively with great examples. However, as you moved on to the prompting, attention, and behavorial cues it seemed to lack the details of the first couple. It just seemed to fade out. I think that these areas could be expanded upon. However, I appreciated you point about not using to many cues in one time period so as to not overload the students. Also, the point of needing to demonstrate the skill along with verbalizing the cue words is so important for kids. The more senses that they can use while learning the easier it is for them to learn. Good start on this project. Hope to see it developed in greater detail as it could be used as an informative teaching tool.
Laurie