Question

Which one of the following is most important in helping learners with learning difficulties?
1. The teacher should provide home tuitions to such learners.
2. The teacher should ignore such learners.
3. The teacher should give a lot of correction work to be completed at home by the learners.
4. The teacher should design various learning activities in a meaningful/real life situation.

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : The teacher should design various learning activities in a meaningful/real life situation.

Learning Difficulties refers to a state when a person faces difficulty in learning. It may be due to physical limitations/disabilities such as - impairment in hearing, visual, low intellectual functioning, and inappropriate motor co-ordination.

• The students with learning difficulties can also learn properly if they are helped by the instructors.
• To help these kinds of learners to overcome learning difficulties, a teacher needs proper strategies.

To address the learning difficulties of students is to use a variety of teaching methods suited to the disability as it will help in:

• selecting relevant prompts to be suitable for their ability level.
• design various learning activities in a meaningful/real-life situation.
• combining different types of prompts to make them inculcate skills.
• catering to the range of learning needs and requirements of diverse learners.
• making learning effective for students who learn differently either visually, auditory, etc.

Hence, we can conclude that the teacher should design various learning activities in a meaningful/real life situation to help learners with learning difficulties.