Welcome to LD Teaching Strategies.  This blog is dedicated to collecting strategies to aide in practical hands on classroom application for use with students with Learning Disabilities.  This site is currently a work in progress.  I began this collection while working on my electronic teaching portfolio.  I decided that I needed a place to collect some of the tried and true strategies that have worked for me over the years.  Some of the collection may seem “old hat,” however, at times it is those that we tend to forget.  I hope that you will find this a useful resource and will help me make this site grow with your own ideas.  I encourage you to email me with any ideas and strategies of your own.  Even “Hey, you forgot…” will work just fine.  It’s all about collaboration. 

About the Collector:

I hold teaching certificates in both Florida and Kentucky.  My Bachelor’s degree is from Georgetown College in Kentucky where I was born and raised.  I completed my graduate Education course work at the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky.

I have four years of teaching experience in the area of Special Education.  My roles have included self-contained varying exceptionalities in the elementary grades including: EMH, TMH, SLD, and EBD; resource and co-taught in the elementary grades including SLD and EBD; support facilitation, self-contained and co-taught grades 5 through 9 including SLD and EBD; co-taught and self-contained.  In all of my positions I have taught students with other health impairments such as ADHD, Tourettes, Autism and sensory integration impairments.

My most recent experience has been with elementary school students and focused on academics.  I have worked with a variety of demographics and in schools with programs including Title One and Reading First.  I have taught nationally-recognized reading programs including McGraw-Hill's SRA: Reading Mastery and REACH programs.  Similarly, I have worked intensively with Harcourt's reading intervention program.

I am currently seeking a teaching position in Kentucky and collecting teaching strategies for LD students while raising my seventeen-year-old daughter.