It's important to give students Homework that can make them think of what they learned in school that day and to challenged them so they can be ready for harder work.
Some teachers will give their students easy work that they won't pick up new information and to think about what they just learned in school. The reason why the teachers would do that is because some of them thinks that kids who are in life skills are so different then kids who are in honors. That's not true any kid no matter the level they are in, they can learned anything.
Important to learned this subjects. Because of the MCAS the teachers focus only on getting their students ready for the test so they rush through the subjects to make sure they touch a bond everything. That's not good at all. They should take the time and make sure their students are learning.
I love Super nanny ever since I was little. These kids still do their Homework at 9:30 at night and they don't get it done by 11:00 which is bedtime for these kids.
There are different kinds of learning styles within the class room. There is visual learners that needs to look at pictures to understand what they are learning.
Auditory learners are the people that needs to listen to sound or music to understand what they are learning.
Verbal learners who prefer words.
Physical Learners learned from body movements.
Some people are a combination of two different learning styles. Some people learn better by themselves and some people learn better talking to different people. To Some people Math comes easy.
Believe it or not there are students who are homeless in elementary school, Middle school, High School, and even college. Profitey happens when their family can afford much and they try whatever it takes to go to school and get an education. My Friend from MASSPIRG is homeless and she wants to stay in this country to get an education. She was kicked out from her host familybecause of her religion. Now she is been getting up by another family and the hunger and homeless campaign at MASSPIRG are helping her sell her scurfs so she can make money to stay here.
This is sad and we should do what we can to help our fellow students. The State of Florida has one of the largest population of homeless children and youth and on a 2015 report 71,446 students were identify as homeless during the 3013-2014 school year. More than 1.6 million children living in the United States are homeless (Institute for Children Poverty and Homelessness, 2014) and over 16 million live below the poverty line.
These numbers are scary. In 1987 president Ronald Reagon signed The Homeless Assistance Act for homeless students to have access to a free education. This still give these students challenges to be able to do well in school expressionly if they are oing to be living in cars.
There are about six steps to take on finding a teaching job. Step 1 Organized your portfolio step 2. Don't wait for the phone to ring step 3. Consider substitute teaching step 4. take a critical look at your skills step 5. Look for regions that are hiring step 6. Prepare aggressively for your interview.
How much does teaching cost? No one should go into teaching because of the money. Everyone should teach because they are passionate on teaching their students. If you are a brand new teacher then your salary would be $39,416.
five ways to get a teaching job:1. Build Relationships 2. Get has much experience as possible 3. Be confident 4. Don't limit yourself too much 5. Be patient; Try to stay calm during the job search.
Not all students are good with taking tests, that doesn't mean they are not working as hard as someone who passed every test they get. Even if they would study all night for the test the next day doesn't mean they will pass. I am bad at taking tests and all I do is study. Not everyone have that gift of being able to take a test without Anxiety takes over.
Everyone feels anxious now and then, it's a normal feeling. Many people do get nervous with a problem at work such as taking a test or making a big decision. There are different kinds of Anxiety disorders. It causes distress and makes things hard to led a normal life. This is a serious mental illness. There are treatments for Anxiety that can help everyone to go back into a fulfilled life.
There are several kinds of Anxiety that includes Panic disorder, Social anxiety disorder, Specific Phobia and Generalizing anxiety disorder,
These are the symptoms for Anxiety Attacks and Panic Attacks and how they are different from each other.
Crash Course is a great way to learned about Biology and Psychology and understand different terms better. I watched his Biology videos when I was getting ready for my Biology MCAS in 9th grade and he was one of the reasons why I passed. He goes over different types of Anxiety including OCD. My mom has OCD when it comes to aphobitis our DVD's, CDs. and Yogurts. OCD stands for Obsessive Compultion Disorder. There aren some people with OCD who would washed their hands a thousand times or clean everything over and over again. That doesn't mean they are crazy. On Glee there is a woman name Emma who has the washing her hands and always being clean type of OCD. Which is a bit extreme. Anxiety Disorders often are in teens and adults. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/index.shtml http://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/panic-disorder-agoraphobia http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml
I founded three websites that gives more information of Anxiety disorder, Panic disorder, OCD, and Depression.
The Freedom Writers is about an amazing teacher who helped her students to overcome their differences and gave them books to read that they can relate to their lives.
This was class 203 and everyone loves Erin Gruwell. I hope that I can make that much of an impact when I become a teacher.
This is the book that they created with all their diaries. They are the actual teacher and students. She actually came as a guest speaker at my school Worcester Tech before I came there. I would love to meet her, now that wood be an honor.
This was from a scene in the movie when Ms. Gruwell asked questions and if it implies to them they will step on the line. This shows that they have more things alike then different.
More and more students with disabilities are thinking about wanting to go to college after High School. For someone with disabilities they have to know their rights and responsibilities of being a college student. There are opportunities and services for students with disabilities that they have to check out so they can succeed. At Salem State there is disability service as well as Trio, peer tutoring, and the writing center.
Everyone should have the opportunity to go to college no matter what the disability. All students with a disability are different from high functioning to low functioning. Back when I was in High School at Worcester Tech the students don't choose what college they want to go in. Instead the school sends them to a special Ed program in assumption until they turn 23 then they are done with the program. That is wrong. All students should be able to choose what college they want to go to and the major they want to study in. I got into this school because I have an IEP and when I send that in I was exempt from my SAT's. I didn't like my score and that's why it was better to just send my IEP.
In this post I want to focus on a different type of learning disability. Some parents are concern when they found out that their child had dyslexia and they are afraid that they won't do well in school. But having dyslexia isn't failure, In fact it's very common. I have some friends who have dyslexia and they do very well in their classes. There are different ways to teach kids with dyslexia and parents can help too. You can educate your child on the symptoms and causes of dyslexia and the strategies to overcome their challenges.
This is what kids with dyslexia see when they are trying to read a book. Dyslexia is not a sign of low intelligence or laziness. It's just the way people with dyslexia's brains process the information. It doesn't just affect reading but writing and even speaking too.
Everybody is different! Dyslexia can make things harder for students to remember what they have read. Students with Dyslexia would have to work on connecting letters to sound, Decoding text, Recognizing "sight" words, Reading Fluently, and understanding the text itself. It's important to give him or her extra help when you see them struggling because when they start out struggling they rarely catch up on their own. When the child is diagnosed with dyslexia by 3rd grade, they will have an easier time to catch up but it's never too late.
Kids with dyslexia get low self-esteem and get frustrated because they have a hard time spelling.
Watch this video and you will understand more about dyslexia!
Being a kid is already hard when it comes to homework, classwork, some teachers, and being bullied. But the students who are in the LGBTQ community has a harder time. Even kids in special education could also be in the LGBTQ community. I want to be a teacher that my student can feel like they can come to me and talk to me about anything!
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I only knew that they added the IA to LGBTQ but I found this picture that also include PD which I guess makes sense if they really want to include everyone.
These are the different flags for the different sexual orientation and gender identity. Also the only flag that isn't shown here is the hetosexual flag which is black and white.
This is what some teachers would have on their door. The only problem is not all teachers with this would do anything when they witness someone being bullied for being gay or transgender or won't do anything when the student is having a hard time coming out. When I am a teacher I would have this on my door and any student not just mine can come up to me and I'll help with whatever problem they have in school when it comes to being in the LGBTQ community and not just homework or classwork help.
Back in High School I was in Best Buddies for 4 years and I loved every minute of it. Best Buddies is a program for special needs kids to be pear up with another kid outside of their small classroom. To me I think they should have best buddies in middle and elementary schools too because so many special needs kids can benefit this. When I went to my first Best Buddy meeting there was only one girl from that class who was there. I just fell in love with her. She was so cute and I wanted to be her buddy. Furtunatly so did everyone else but I was still able to be her buddy and ones a week I would go to that classroom to sign up to take her for lunch. She enjoy hanging out with me at lunch. I didn't know when I first met her what disability she have. I didn't know anything about Down Syndrome. I just looked at her and her personality. I treated her like how I wanted others to treat me. I got her into Drama club and that is where I met Chris who was also in her class. One day when we both came out of the school from Drama my mom saw her. When I came into the car my mom told me that Ann has Down Syndrome. I was like wow and that began my research on Down Syndrome. It was funny when we were in Drama club because we both wanted to be Juliet. But the thing is she had a hard time reading. So she became a town person and I was the 3rd servant. Chris who wanted to be Romeo, was the Prince. I was impress by how he could remember all his lines before anyone else. He was always the first person to be off book. I had a crush on Chris. Then he asked me to Prom and I said yes even though at the time I was a freshman. My mom met Chris and we went to Prom. When he drop me off back home my mom told me that he might have aspergers because he seemed a bit off. I began to notce some artistic trates in him and he hardly ever gave me good eye contact.
I learned so much about disabilities and it just fill my passion to teach special Ed myself. In Biology I had this teacher name Mr. Clark and he had us to do some projects for class. One of the projects we had to do was to pick any genetic disorder so out of inspiration of Ann I choose Down Syndrome. I did an amazing power point with kids who have Down Syndrome and old people with Down Syndrome. I did a lot of research on my topic. I was surprised to learned that it happens if the mother is 35 or order and get pregnant and I was surprised that they have 21 chromosomes. One extra chromosomes then people without Down Syndrome. I felt sad when I learned that they get health problems. At the end of the presentation I said joined best buddies. Trying to encourage the other students to joined. Mr. Clark was impress and gave me an A.
Some kids with Autism would have a speech problem or can't talk at all but there are some kids who talk normal. Autistic kids like Chris has low intelligence in school and that was why he was in special Ed but Autistic kids like my other 2 boyfriends Said and Edgar they have very high intelligence. Said was in honor classes. Said is really good with math and science and Edgar is really good in math. Look at Albert Einsteins for example he had Asperger's and he was really smart in math and science but he was bad in his other subjects. Some Autistic kids doesn't like to be touch and some doesn't mind it. A lot of them has poor social skills. Chris didn't talk to people much exapt for me but he was great on stage. When I first met Said he wasn't socialable, only to me and his autistic friend John who is a different kind of autism. He would usually do his work. But after we got together and we started to go to Safe Homes he started to be more socialble and made new friends. He thanked me for helping him to be more socialble. Now I am with Edgar and I have brought him to safe homes too but he would sit by himself and put his head phones in his ears and watched videos on his phone. I am determine to get him to be more socioable but he is more of a challeneged then Said. Chris had a special skill in theater. Some kids with Autism who may not be good in school still might have some sought of special skill outside of school that we have to find.
There are different types of learning disabilities. Some are very common and some are not. Some kids with a learning disability belongs to special Education and some do not. In this post I will tell you the different kinds of learning disabilities of different background and education level.
This is a picture of a girl with Down Syndrome. Down Syndrome was discovered by John Langdon Down. Down Syndrome often happen when the mother gets pregnant when she is 35 or order years old. That doesn't always happen but that is well the science say that it often caused Down Syndrome. Some people think that kids who have down syndrome are retarded but they are not. They just look different then us and they might have their own challenges going on. Anyone who have down syndrome can be in a life skills class or even honors classes and anywhere in between. No 2 down syndromes are unlike and you can't judge how smart they are by how they look like or how they talk. kids with Down Syndrome would have health problems such as heart problems. They have a speech implement because they have a huge tounge.
Autism Spectrum Disorder is an umbrella term! Autistic Disorder or Autism Disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that usually appears during the first three years of life. Children with autism looks like they are living in their own little word, shows little interests in others, and lack of social awareness. The focus of an autistic child is a consistent routine and includes an interest in repeating odd and peculiar behaviors. Autistic children often have problems communicating, avoiding eye contact, and show limit attachment to others. Asperger's Disorder was founded in the 1940s by Hans Asperger. He was obsessed with Autistic behaviors and difficult in communication skills in boys but they would have normal intelligence and language development. They would describe people with Asperger's as "High Functioning." PDD is like Asperger's because that too is "High Functioning" autism but it's a catch all because if there is a kid who may or may not have autism and show different types of autistic behaviors but they don't know what to label them as, they just label the kids as PDD whether he or she does have autism or not. Now because so many kids are being labeled with PDD, they are starting to get rid of it since they made it into a fake autism. The childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), also known as Heller's syndrome and disintegrative psychosis, is a rare condition characterized by late onset of developmental delays in language, social function, and motor skills. As for right now researchers does not know the cause of this disorder. CDD has some similarities of autism and is considered to be a low functioning form of it. Since May 2013 this terms as well as other terms were fused into Autism Spectrum Disorder. Now CDD is also called "regressive autism." Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmenal disorder that affects girls almost exclusively. It affects growth and development by a slowing development, loss of good use in hands, distinctive hand movements, slowed brain and head growth, problems with walking, seizures, and intellectual disability.
Watch this video on special education teachers, they are amazing teachers and we should have more of them around for our special needs kids.
