Name of teaching material
Page-a-day calendar self-made product
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| Target |
Young children Children and students having difficulty having an overview of activities in relation to time |
|---|---|
| Disability category | deaf and hard of hearing mentally challenged physically challenged health impairment speech and language disorder autism emotional disturbance developmental disabilities other |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living instruction for living skills other |
| Specific purposes |
The calendar helps children and students: - Know the date and day of the week by seeing the calendar - Have an overview of activities scheduled on the day and talk about what they have experienced - Understand that days change from yesterday to today and tomorrow - Have conversation by recalling what they have experienced - Understand the concepts related to time, such as month, semester and year. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
On each page, post visual clues (illustration, photo, etc.) of activities to be performed on the day. To help children and students visually grasp the concept of month, store the pages separately for each month and/or post them on the wall. |
| Expected effects and results |
The calendar helps children and students: - Have an overview of the activities scheduled on the day. The pages also serve as visual records of the activities - Understand that days change from yesterday to today and tomorrow by tearing off a page each day and seeing clues of the activities performed on the day - Recall the activities performed on a day in the past using the visual clues on the calendar. Visual clues may be more helpful than just hearing stories about what they did. - Grasp the passage of time, such as month, semester and year, by posting pages separately for each month in chronological order. |
| How to use |
- Tear a page(s) out of the calendar everyday so as to show the correct date, and ask children and students to look at the calendar and check the date and day of the week during the morning meeting, etc. - Talk to your students about their activities, such as “We did XX yesterday”, “We have ZZ today” and “Tomorrow, We will have YY”, in an interrogative way if possible. - Draw or write the activities planned for the day on the page in advance. - After children finished doing the activities of the day, draw or write what they experienced. - Post or place the pages of the past days so that children and students can see whenever they like to. Bind the pages of the days for the previous month, and post on a table showing a year. - Advice children and students to see what is drawn or written on the pages of the calendar when they seem to have difficulty recalling what they have experienced. |
| Related teaching materials and information | |
| Useful for other students | The calendar is also useful for children having difficulty grasping the concept of time, such as day, month and year, and those with difficulty having an overview of the schedule of the day. |
- Informant KOYANAGI Tatsuro, Special Needs Education School for the Deaf, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords hearing impairment, concept of time, clue for conversation
- Created 2025-02-05 12:07:04
- Updated 2025-02-05 12:07:04