Jay Hollowell

Thanks Tanya! Your icebreaker also helps students to begin the bonding process with each other. Allow me to suggest another icebreaker for your discretion: Pair students up (partnerships of two) and ask them to visit with their partners for a few moments. Then have them turn back-to-back, think about a positive characteistic, trait, quality or feature, internally or externally, that impresses them about their partner, and then draw it on a piece of paper without using any letters, words or numbers. They can use symbols and draw as many pictures as they would like, but cannot yet show the picture… >>>

Hi Tanya! I appreciate your question because career school instructors, working with so much diversity of adult learners, are not necessarily professionally trained in addressing learning disabilities, yet we, of course, must face the challenge. I think one difference between a student who is not a skilled writer and one with a learning disability is that the less skilled writer is challenged with simply presenting information in written form, whereas the student with a learning disability may be challenged with actually processing the information, connecting so to speak thought with output. For the student with poor writing skills, practice, vocabulary… >>>