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Audra Kresinske is an educator with over 7 years experience teaching English and employment readiness skills.
If you have any experience teaching, you know that you will run into this situation time and time again. The best teachers have various strategies in their back pocket to use to help students. Some of these strategies include allowing a peer to teach the student, scaffolding the material to break down each step, having the student reference notes, providing several practice problems, assigning group work, walking the student through your thought process, creating anchor charts to reference, rewarding the student for their persistence, and encouraging the student as they work hard. Pick a few of these and describe how they could help the student in understanding the content.

Audra Kresinske is an educator with over 7 years experience teaching English and employment readiness skills.
"If a student were to struggle with a particular concept, I would do everything I could to help them out. A couple of the strategies I might utilize would be scaffolding the learning to make it more bite sized, allowing a peer to teach the student, and allowing the student to reference notes and example problems. I would attempt to teach the student in steps to determine exactly where they were misunderstanding. I know students often learn better from each other, so I may utilize a peer who I know has the concept down and could communicate it well. I may also create a sort of 'cheat sheet' for the student to reference notes and examples that could help them through additional practice. Regardless of the strategy, I would continue to work with them and encourage them until they learned the skill."

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