College of Education and Human Development

How Do You Spell Mnemonics? Try Scruggs-Mastropieri

Last week the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children hosted a tribute for Mason's Tom Scruggs and Margo Mastropieri. 

The article below was written by June Behrmann and originally appeared on the AIM-VA blog. 

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It was a grand farewell in a hotel ballroom in Philadelphia last week when the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) hosted a 2014 tribute by researchers, professors, advisors, students, colleagues, and friends of award-winning Tom Scruggs and Margo Mastropieri from the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University.

Mason's award-winning Tom Scruggs and Margo Mastropieri received a grand farewell in a hotel ballroom in Philadelphia last week at a tribute by researchers, professors, advisors, students, colleagues, and friends.

 

Maybe you now use or hope to use their proven strategies to improve your instruction in these areas of their specialization:

• Learning and memory
• Cognitive strategies
• Literacy strategies
• Inclusion strategies for students with disabilities and their peers
• Science education for students with and without disabilities
• Social studies education for students with and without disabilities
• Quantitative and qualitative research synthesis
• Learning and behavioral disorders

At the event, Professors Doug Fuchs (Vanderbilt University), John Wills Lloyd (University of Virginia), and former doctoral student Kim McDuffie-Landrum (University of Louisville) gave high praise. I’ll do what bloggers like to do—direct readers to a Scruggs and Mastropieri area of focus that fast tracks their research into your practice. A favorite strategy is mnemonics that helps students recall information, lists, characteristics, categories, steps, parts, phases, etc.  

10 sources to help you use mnemonics successfully in your classroom:

• Enhancing School Success with Mnemonic Strategies  from LD Online
• A Focus on Mnemonic Instruction  from (CEC’s LD, research divisions)
• Mnemonics  from the English Teachers Network
• Cardinal Direction Mnemonics with Third Graders  from Instructables.com
• Pictorial Mnemonics x Sound Contrasting = More Effective English Teaching  from Science Daily
• Using Mnemonics to Teach Academic Skills  from National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center
• Mnemonic Devices  from Pinterest
• How Can I Remember: Use Helpful Mnemonic Devices  from BrightHub Education
• You Must Remember This: Teaching with Mnemonics  from Education World

 

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