Organize your classroom into a group setting and encourage students to work together. Give them enough time to work together on projects, homework and classwork. According to Reading Horizons, at-risk students require additional instruction, and putting students in groups makes it easier for them to help each other. Group members can help each other stay on track, answer simple questions and support each other with information from previous lessons. Pay close attention to group cohesion and make sure each student is actively participating in the group activities.
Multidisciplinary projects are activities that combine lessons from multiple subjects, such as a social studies project that includes math from recent math lessons. Give students a series of numbers, such as population numbers in your town and have them use those numbers to solve a problem. For example, if your math lesson is focusing on statistics and percentages, have your students calculate percentages of people in your town's population. You may ask them to determine the percentage of people living in a specific neighborhood or region of the town. Use multidisciplinary projects to bring diverse lessons together and reinforce different subjects at the same time.
Get parents involved with lessons by sending home activities they can do with their children. Include information about the home activity, and tips and instructions to help parents help their children. Use these activities to show parents what their students are learning in school. For example, construct a project with a list of vocabulary words. Have parents teach their children how to use and identify those words in their home environment.
Repetition is the key to helping students that require intensive amounts of instruction for academic success. Provide the necessary repetition by starting each class with a short review of previous information. For instance, begin your math lesson with a quick review of the two previous lessons, highlighting the most important parts of each lesson. Construct your current lesson with those parts in mind. A lesson about fractions may include a review about the differences between adding and subtracting fractions and a review about how to find the lower common denominator. Repeat this review every class until your students are comfortable with the entire procedure.