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Introduction to Creating Teaching Opportunities
If you want to help your child to develop particular
skills, you can create teaching
opportunities. Teaching opportunities can occur
any time you and your child are together. When your child
shows an interest in an object, person, or event, you have
a chance to teach her a skill or concept. So, a teaching opportunity
usually occurs in this order:
- you and your child are together
- your child shows an observable interest in something
- your child uses words, gestures, or eye contact
to communicate with you about this interest
- you respond in a way that helps your child learn
a skill or concept.
Examples of
what a teaching opportunity might look like:
Of course, many times during a day, a teaching
opportunity can happen without your help, but they may not
happen often enough for your child o learn and develop a SPECIFIC
skill-especially a skill that is hard for him to learn. So,
you might need to create more teaching opportunities that
will help your child work on those specific skills. To help
with that, we will discuss eight ways you can create more
teaching opportunities for your child.
These
eight ways are called:
As you learn about these ways to create teaching
opportunities, it is important to remember that your child's
interest and attempts to communicate with you about this interest
is the starting point for the teaching opportunity. We believe
that it is better to help your child build a skill or concept
when that help is based on a child's interest and when the
child takes the lead.
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