When teaching special needs students at Tahoka High, we search for the best ways to instruct them and to ensure that they have the best education available. The following are just a few ways in which we insure that students are getting the proper education. The exceptional child's basic needs and goals are not so different from those of the "ordinary" child, but the means of achieving those goals and fulfilling those needs may be different. The following general practices are used here at Tahoka High School in teaching our exceptional children.

The following are crucial in teaching exceptional children in Tahoka High School.

1. Maintain a positive attitude toward exceptional learners.
2. Consider learning styles and modalities when planning instruction.
3. Provide individualize instruction as needed.
4. Offer meaniful, balanced instructional programs.
5. Provide materials the children are capable of using as well as ones that are of interest.
6. Communicate with others who work with special children.
7. Provide a positive classroom enviroment.
8. Use varied instruction and assessment techniques.
9. Provinde opportunities for success in undertakings.
10.Most important, to treat every child like our own.

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