4.8 The Art and Science of Prescriptive and Diagnostic Teaching

The diagnostic-prescriptive approach to teaching clinically focuses directly on the student. This includes knowledge about the strengths and needs of a student, and this information is gathered through assessments or diagnostic measures that let a teacher diagnose their student’s academic abilities. In turn, the teacher uses this information to prescribe an appropriate course of action, which includes prescribing or ordering sequential learning tasks that enable a student to reach a given goal. From their observations, teachers then implement prescriptions that remediate difficulties. 

In this episode, we discuss a powerful approach to teaching that is driven by the knowledge of the students and anchored in the Ortonian and Structured Literacy principles. We are talking about The Art and Science of Prescriptive and Diagnostic Teaching.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• 4.7 The Power of Observation: What, When, and How
• How is Orton-Gillingham Diagnostic and Prescriptive?
• What does it mean to be diagnostic and prescriptive? - YouTube video
• 2.14 Using Evaluations to Better Understand Our Learners with Katy Vassar
• 2.4 How to Effectively Work with Older Students with Dyslexia
• 2.5 Word Attack Strategies for Older Students with Dyslexia
• Diagnostic and Prescriptive Teaching
• 2.12 Bringing Handwriting Into Our Literacy Instruction

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