BPT1501
ASSIGNMENT 4 SEMESTER 2 2025
UNIQUE NO.
DUE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2025
, lOMoARcPSD|18222662
Assignment 4: Teaching and Learning Strategies
QUESTION 1
1.1 Type of assessment to identify a learner with learning difficulties (2 marks)
As an educator, I would use diagnostic assessment to identify a learner with learning
difficulties.
Importance of diagnostic assessment (3 marks)
It helps to pinpoint specific learning challenges such as difficulties in reading,
writing, motor coordination, or behaviour.
It provides baseline information about the learner’s strengths and weaknesses
before planning support strategies.
It allows the teacher to design individualised interventions and differentiate
instruction effectively.
1.2 Differentiated instruction strategies for the 3 learners in Mr Jones’ classroom
(15 marks)
Jill (struggles with fine motor skills, copying, cutting, aligning numbers, reproducing
shapes)
Strategy: Use multi-sensory and scaffolded learning strategies (e.g.,
providing graph paper for number alignment, using tracing activities, hands-on
manipulatives, or digital tools).
Why/How: Graph paper helps align numbers in math problems, preventing
calculation errors. Tracing and step-by-step copying activities improve fine motor
coordination. Digital tools (such as drawing software) provide guided lines that
ASSIGNMENT 4 SEMESTER 2 2025
UNIQUE NO.
DUE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2025
, lOMoARcPSD|18222662
Assignment 4: Teaching and Learning Strategies
QUESTION 1
1.1 Type of assessment to identify a learner with learning difficulties (2 marks)
As an educator, I would use diagnostic assessment to identify a learner with learning
difficulties.
Importance of diagnostic assessment (3 marks)
It helps to pinpoint specific learning challenges such as difficulties in reading,
writing, motor coordination, or behaviour.
It provides baseline information about the learner’s strengths and weaknesses
before planning support strategies.
It allows the teacher to design individualised interventions and differentiate
instruction effectively.
1.2 Differentiated instruction strategies for the 3 learners in Mr Jones’ classroom
(15 marks)
Jill (struggles with fine motor skills, copying, cutting, aligning numbers, reproducing
shapes)
Strategy: Use multi-sensory and scaffolded learning strategies (e.g.,
providing graph paper for number alignment, using tracing activities, hands-on
manipulatives, or digital tools).
Why/How: Graph paper helps align numbers in math problems, preventing
calculation errors. Tracing and step-by-step copying activities improve fine motor
coordination. Digital tools (such as drawing software) provide guided lines that
