I am in my ninth year of supporting high school students through a resource room program. They come to me one period a day (six students per period), and I support them in their other 7 subject areas.
Last year, our board approved 5 credits for our program and we changed the title to Practical Studies and implemented a curriculum for each grade (9-12).
I am looking for good supplemental material for test taking, notetaking, reading in the content areas, college prep, applying for college, time management, etc. all those things that the LD student must do during high school, and continue into post secondary ed.
Our students are primarily college prep learning disabled students.
Any suggestions?
Re: High School Resource Room/Study Skills Programs
Here’s a quick answer (if I have time, more later ;)) — I just stumbled onto this site and it looks interesting. http://etv.jmu.edu/LearningToolbox/
There are other sites at colleges with LD services too.
If you begin to teach a curriculum in your resource room, where will they now get the support for their other 7 classes that they formally got from you?
It would seem to me that on test taking a formal curriculum isn’t necessary as supporting them through their tests in their 7 subject areas constitutes a kind of curriculum for test taking in and of itself. The same with notetaking and reading in the content areas.
Rather than a packaged curriculum, it would seem to me that you have the wonderful opportunity to teach these skills in a very real, hands on way by continuing doing exactly what you have been doing.