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Students with mild disabilities often need support and specialized instruction t

Students with mild disabilities often need support and specialized instruction to improve memory, attention, and self-regulation of learning. Special Education teachers can explicitly teach strategies to students for improved cognitive and meta-cognitive processing. Teaching these strategies using explicit and direct instructions can improve understanding of content by improving cognitive processes such as problem-solving attention, organization, and self-monitoring.  Please review the resources below and proceed to the next page for the full discussion instructions.
Read the Information brief on CEC’s HLP #14Download CEC’s HLP #14
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Kennedy, M. J., Cook, L., & Morano, S. (2020). HLP 14: Use Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies https://highleveragepractices.org/701Links to an external site.
Teaching Cognitive and Meta-cognitive Strategies
Students with mild disabilities often need support and specialized instruction to improve memory, attention, and self-regulation of learning. Special Education teachers can explicitly teach strategies to students for improved cognitive and metacognitive processing. Teaching these strategies using explicit and direct instructions can improve understanding of content by improving cognitive processes such as problem-solving attention, organization, and self-monitoring. 
Assignment instructions:Think about how strategy instruction supports learners with cognitive processing problems such as SLD, ADHD, and IDD. Consider an academic skill you may teach or intend to teach and choose a strategy that could support that content (writing, reading, math, problem-solving, attention, organization strategies, etc.).
Identify a strategy to teach struggling students to support this content area. Below are a couple of websites of the primary Strategy Instruction research and dissemination institutions.  There, you will have plenty of strategies to choose from.University of NebraskaLinks to an external site.
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Vanderbilt UniversityLinks to an external site.
Links to an external site.MathStrategies.docxDownload MathStrategies.docx
ReadingStrategies.docx Download ReadingStrategies.docxReadingStrategies.docx Download ReadingStrategies.docx
WritingStrategies.docxDownload WritingStrategies.docx
Note-takingStrategies.docx Download Note-takingStrategies.docx
SchoolStrategies.docxDownload SchoolStrategies.docx
RAP – Reading Comprehension StrategyLinks to an external site.