classroom management for hearing impaired pupils

Essay by twasantekaUniversity, Bachelor's November 2014

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Education is one of the most import tools in one's daily needs, for the education takes place anywhere. The classroom is a place which the formal school environment where teaching and learning activities takes place. It imperative that a teacher manages the classroom correctly for effective acquiring of education, however classroom management strategies help both the teacher to teach effectively and learners to learn efficiently. Their numerous classroom management strategies that can help the hearing impaired pupils acquire education. Education is derived from the curriculum, as curriculum is made from the needs, questions and experiences. Baines (1998) explained that curriculum is a vehicle by which learners are introduced to subject disciplines and organized field of study. There different types of curriculum, for example there is a special curriculum for the children with disabilities, this type of a curriculum suits the learners disability and the general curriculum for the so called normal.

The hearing impairment one of the disability is a loss of the sense of hearing, this ranges from the mild (able to hear some sound) to profound (unable to hear any sound). It is the teacher's responsibility to develop successful strategies of support for students who have a hearing loss to learn in the mainstream. A mainstream setting typically means that a child with a hearing impairment is put in a regular education classroom with normal hearing peers and a regular education teacher Erin Lanfer (2006).

In order for students with a hearing impairment to succeed in a mainstream setting, there are certain adaptations and accommodations that need to be made by the regular education teacher in

The areas of content, instruction, resources and environment. This essay will evaluate classroom management strategies teachers use to assist learners with hearing impairment to successfully access the general curriculum in the mainstream.