Classroom Interventions and Embedded Instruction
Embedded instruction is using everyday activities and routines to help the academic learning of students. Teacher and parents use common structures that the child already knows to help teach a lesson or principle. For example, a teacher who uses the home living center and role play of a mother and father talking on the phone to teach dialogic conversation would be using embedded instruction. This is not limited to the classroom, however. Parents can use embedded instruction to teach their children as well. Phonics and spelling words can be done when using letters in the bathtub or teaching how to add fractions with a child who likes to help cook. Embedded instruction accentuates that learning can happen anytime and not just in the classroom.
As a future teacher, I know that students learn in a variety of ways and have individual needs. Intervention in the classroom allows that each child gets what he or she needs according to personal needs and learning abilities. Intervention is more planning intensive and geared toward meeting needs that are lacking. Intervention is often done primarily through me as the teacher, but then I work with parents and in the classroom to embed instruction. Classroom intervention goes hand-in-hand with embedded instruction. Embedded instruction hinges on the student’s individual needs in order that parents or I can teach in ways that they understand. I personally learn best through every day activities and know students learn when they do not know learning is taking place. Embedded instruction allows the student to have fun while learning. It also reinforces interventions taking place through activities that the student is already doing. Embedded instruction done at home by the community or parents help make intervention easier because it causes the child to apply what they learn in the classroom, show learning is needed for everyday life, performed by non-professionals, and strengthens learning before needs get too severe.
As a future teacher, I know that students learn in a variety of ways and have individual needs. Intervention in the classroom allows that each child gets what he or she needs according to personal needs and learning abilities. Intervention is more planning intensive and geared toward meeting needs that are lacking. Intervention is often done primarily through me as the teacher, but then I work with parents and in the classroom to embed instruction. Classroom intervention goes hand-in-hand with embedded instruction. Embedded instruction hinges on the student’s individual needs in order that parents or I can teach in ways that they understand. I personally learn best through every day activities and know students learn when they do not know learning is taking place. Embedded instruction allows the student to have fun while learning. It also reinforces interventions taking place through activities that the student is already doing. Embedded instruction done at home by the community or parents help make intervention easier because it causes the child to apply what they learn in the classroom, show learning is needed for everyday life, performed by non-professionals, and strengthens learning before needs get too severe.