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Concept Development
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    1. Impact of concept development on academic learning
    2. Readings and handouts

  2. Concept Development
    1. Ms. Benes, 6th grade science teacher
    2. Concept knowledge is needed for background knowledge

  3. Purpose and Goals
    1. To help you understand concept learning, as well as learn effective ways to approach concept development for students with learning disabilities
    2. To define "concepts"
    3. To explore key elements in the understanding of concepts
    4. To discuss concept characteristics, relationships, and connections with language development
    5. To describe effective teaching practices to enhance concept learning

  4. Lesson Questions
    1. What are concepts and what knowledge is required to understand them?
    2. What are effective ways to promote understanding, memory, and integration of concepts in students with learning disabilities?
    3. Why is it important to select critical concepts to teach in depth?

  5. Defining "Concept"
    1. The category or class into which events ideas or objects are grouped; examples and characteristics common to members that belong to the same class
    2. Example: transportation
    3. Careful consideration of examples and non examples is important in defining a concept

  6. Promoting Concept Understanding
    1. Concept characteristics
    2. Concept relationships
    3. Concept development and language development

  7. Mid Lesson Review
    1. Concept definition
    2. Specific practices to promote concept understanding

  8. Effective Teaching Practices
    1. Use visual depictions
    2. Employ concept teaching routines
    3. Select critical concepts

  9. Review and Preview
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