Teaching for Remediation and Compensation
is the pedagogy of maintaining students in lower
order skills and learning. The pedagogy of remediation
is advocated by some of the greatest learning theorists
in education and is a institutionalized in the public
school systems. This pedagogy limits a student to
accomplishing lower skills before moving on, which
may never occur. The pedagogy of remediation is
a major pathway to devolution of human beings in
special education. The logic of this pedagogy is
seen as natural in the learning of all subjects.
Teaching for remediation and compensation has assured
school districts that once a child is in special
education, he will remain there until he drops out
or graduates from high school in time to collect
Social Security.
The Pedagogy of Teaching to Strengths is the opposite
of The Pedagogy for Teaching Remediation and Compensation.
The teachers who practice this pedagogy recognize
the progress of science, the ability instead of
the disability in each student, and the technological
evolution of learning in the 21 st Century. These
teachers will advocate for the use of a calculator
for mathematics for a student with learning difficulties
in mathematics-much as a child with a vision problem
is allowed to use glasses or a student with a hearing
problem is allowed to wear a hearing aid. These
teachers remove all the stumbling blocks to the
students remaining in the regular classroom, recognize
different types of disabilities and the technology
available to teach to student strengths, and allow
the students to benefit from their strengths: If
a student is learning disabled in mathematics, the
use of a calculator is, recognized by all educational
organizations as an important educational tool and
not as compensation enhanced learning, the use of
a rap musical score to learn multiplication tables
teaches to kinesthetic strengths, allowing the student
to use Excel on the computer teaches to graduate
level education and higher level thinking and skills,
and using a program which reads books and speaks
greatly increases multisensory learning in all students.
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