Chapter 1 Remedial Classroom
Chapter 1 Remedial Classroom
Remedial Program
- primarily helps students address language skills deficits by helping them acquire self-
confidence to face their own weaknesses and overcome these through acquisition of self-
strategies.
- A thorough assessment must be conducted before organizing a remedial program, while
consistent monitoring is imperative in managing program.
Below are general instructional guidelines that should be considered (Strickland, 1998 cited in
Gunning, 2003 and in Vacca, Vacca, and Gove, 1991):
Instructions is systematic when it is planned, deliberate in application, and proceeds
in an orderly manner. This does not mean a rigid progression of one-size-fits-all
teaching.
Intensive instruction on any particular skill or strategy should be based on need.
Thus, intensity will vary both with individuals and groups.
There is no substitute for ongoing documentation and monitoring of learning to
determine the order in which skills should be addressed and the level of intensity
required to help a child or group of children succeed in a particular area.
To track the specific goals and objectives within an integrated language-arts
framework, teachers must know the instructional objectives their curriculum
requires at the grade or year level they teach.