“To be used in conjunction with the ‘Parents’ Guide: Memory Mates for Working with your Child at Home’ and the revised ‘Memory Mates: A classroom-based intervention to improve attention and working memory in primary-aged students.'”
Memory Mates for Teachers Working with Students with a Disability
Lesley Bruce, Linda Sheldon, Dr Susan Colmar, Nash Davis
Teachers Working with Students with a Disability booklet to support the implementation of Memory Mates
This third booklet is specifically aimed at teachers and other personnel who work closely with students with a disability in school contexts. Although focussed on classroom settings, parents of a child with a disability may find aspects of the content of this new booklet helpful, in conjunction with the Parents’ Guide: Memory Mates for Working with your Child at Home.
Teachers might work in support classes in regular schools or teach a student with a disability and/or attention and working memory difficulties in their inclusive class. Teachers in Special Schools can also use this booklet, with appropriate adaptations depending on the needs of the student groups or individuals they teach. Importantly, although Memory Mates is focused on attention and working memory, all the strategies are relevant and appropriate for most aspects of learning in classroom contexts; therefore, they can have a breadth of application when used by students and teachers.
Underpinning the two specifically targeted booklets is the booklet written for teachers entitled Memory Mates: A classroom-based intervention to improve attention and working memory in primary-aged students (Sheldon, L., Davis, N., & Colmar, S.; 2015; revised 2020). The revised teachers’ booklet is also downloadable from the website www.memorymates.education.
If you require any further information or are interested in presentations by the Memory Mates team, please contact Dr Susan Colmar: susanhcolmar@gmail.com.
