Exceptional Students

This week has been crazy. My parents came into town this week because my brother in-law graduated. We had a family dinner and after we eat dinner my mom. sister, and I started taking about title one schools. Also, things that my mom had to do to make sure that all my siblings had the right teacher for them. It made me think of my sophomore year. In 9th grade, I got test out of an IEP for my reading but I still had a 504. So, because of that my high school put me in a regular sophomore English class. My reading level was on level but my writing was not, so my mom and I went into the counselor office had them change my schedule and get me into the English that I needed. My past has helped me a lot in this class because growing up I had a speech impediment. I could not say my R's, every time I did they would sound like W's. The feeling that you guys had of frustration and embarrassment when doing the learning disability and fluency disorder. That was my life, I have a learning di...

This week had a lot to do with test, but most importantly how to accommodate test for students. I really like all the ideas that this chapter had about it. It talked about things to do before, during, and after. I feel like teachers need to be able to think of different ways to  test their students because a lot of students hate the idea of taking a written test that they have to answer the question. Teachers need to remember that sometimes the best way to test students is in an inform setting. That is where some student feel the most comfortable and are more likely to give you an honest results on their knowledge.   You will get different reactions to test,   and it is the teacher that need to accommodate to those needs and reaction. This week I did the simulation of the eye patch. It was harder than I thought it was going to be. I typically forget that my left eye is weaker than my right. So when I put the eye patch on my right eye it was difficult to read ...

This week was really interested, it was about how to have students learn independently. My mom was my seminary teacher, and she would tell the class that we needed to learn and found things for ourselves in the scriptures. That can be applied to learning in regular schools, students need to be able to learn for themselves.  The more that students learn for themselves, the more that they will be successful in the future. Learning for themselves will help them in every subject, and every aspect of their lives. I feel like some teacher give the information to the students, when the students need to found information out for themselves.     This week, I did the wheelchair simulation. It was about the same difficult that I thought. My grandma is in a wheelchair right now. She is to weak to walk around, so my grandpa lefts her up to have her go to the bathroom and to get into the car. I have always felt bad for my grandma, and my grandpa. This made me have more appreciation ...