Special+Education

__**Behavioral Strengths**__ self control affective development--feelings, emotions, maturity, personality growth class involvement school performance self confidence participates in class attentive asks questions motivation

__**Academic Strengths**__ reading writing math science social studies p.e. electives

__**Instructional Strategies**__ peer tutoring cooperative learning higher order thinking questions modeling ask questions visualization techniques able to paraphrase to indicate understanding having choices/options scaffolding prior knowledge activation independent reading / writing summarizing questioning problem solving

__**Communication Skills**__ decoding/understanding meaning listening skills conversation skills asks questions