Over the summer, I have worked with children of all ages, ethnicities and skill levels. Secondly, because I knew I could have a lot of fun with my students doing it. One, to see how effective it was for teaching reading to young elementary students, especially in terms of sight word recognition. I wanted focus my time with the students I tutored on multisensory learning. My past experience in the education field led me to pursue further research in the area of multisensory teaching instruction this summer. Multi-sensory learning interests me because without it, many of the students I work with are always at a disadvantage because they learn differently. Many have hearing and vision impairments, as well as cognitive impairments. Many of my students are tactile learners. What they all have in common though is that they all are unique learners. In my special education classroom, I work with students of all levels of functioning. They don’t see how well they dance or how intricately they build towers out of blocks. They don’t see how gifted an artist they are or how well they comprehend oral language. These same students that struggle so much to read, write, learn and understand, have so many gifts they don’t see. They need to move more or learn through tactile projects. However, for some students, it is not natural for them to learn this way. Most teaching curricula only cater to the auditory-visual learner. Why I became interested in multisensory learning At the same time, the VISTA members build their own leadership, explore career paths, pay for college and become lifelong advocates for the communities they serve due to the power of their experience. They also connect students and parents/caregivers to community resources through wraparound basic needs support. They bring literacy to life for low-income students through a variety of activities – one-on-one tutoring, creative enrichment activities like using arts and drama to explore language or practicing vocabulary and comprehension in science and other subjects. For eight weeks over the summer, Summer Reads VISTA members volunteer full-time as children’s/youth literacy mentors in schools, libraries and out-of-school-time programs across Minnesota. Summer Reads is an AmeriCorps VISTA national service program of Literacy Minnesota. The research of a four-year study (Reynold, V., Vickery, K., and Cochran,S, Annals of Dyslexia, 1987) showed highly significant gains for all remedial students while students in regular classrooms also showed gains.This children’s literacy tutor resource was created by Summer Reads VISTA members. Margaret Taylor Smith from Forney, Texas, developed Multisensory Teaching Approach (MTA) in the mid 1980’s as a refined and more ‘teacher friendly’ curriculum that enhances and further develops Alphabet Phonics by teaching for mastery. It is based on the alphabet symbols system and teaches the science of the written language and addresses reading, handwriting, and spelling. Alphabetic Phonics incorporates the Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic/Tactile (large and small muscle) senses in it’s daily instruction. Lucius Waites who developed the Alphabetic Phonics program. MTA follows research begun at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in 1965 by Aylett R. Daily lesson demonstrations, lesson planning, and practicum lessons are also part of the virtual training to assure program success. The training will consist of daily manipulation of the AmplioSpeech program to find resources for phonological awareness, verbal expression, alphabet/dictionary skills, reading, reading fluency, reading comprehension, cursive handwriting, and spelling. This certificate will confirm your training to meet state requirements. Participants are required to attend and complete all nine days of instruction and satisfy all components of the training before earning a certificate of completion.
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The training is offered to public or charter school teachers for five full days during the summer of 2021 and two full-day seminars in the Fall and two full-day seminars in the Spring. All participants must work in a school where AmplioSpeech will be used to instruct students during the 2021-22 school year. In 2020, MTA teamed with AmplioSpeech supported by the Texas Education Association to create an electronic supplement for students to work on their reading skills.Īccording to Texas Dyslexia Law: Revised 2018, certified teachers must be trained in the components of a dyslexia program. This Orton-Gillingham Teaching approach is a remedial program designed for reading mediation and meets all Texas Education Association criteria of an exemplary and effective Dyslexia reading program. What is the Multisensory Teaching Approach (MTA)?