In psychology we talked about how to teach children with intellectual disabilities, which I found very helpful despite the fact that I will not be a special education teacher. Some of the advice given could be applied to student without intellectual disabilities. When teaching children with disabilities as a teacher you have to have high, but still appropriate, standards for your students. You never know how much the student can do, and not challenging their abilities is doing them a disservice. Also when teaching special education you have to give the student immediate feedback to let them to know how well they are doing or if they need to work on something. Though the most important things to keep in mind when working with students who have an intellectual disability is to be patient and try to involve their family as much as possible.
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I think every student will have a tough time on something. The information I gained from learning about how to teach a child will intellectual is universal. Being patient should be a requirement for all teacher, and after doing field experience I learned that patient is the key to creating a relationship with a student. And in every education class I have taken this semester every teacher has brought up the importance of involving the student’s guardian in their education.
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Thought the four assessments that really interested me were traditional, authentic, informal, and formal. Traditional is used to describe to describe the measuring of knowledge in isolation while authentic describes measuring a student’s knowledge and skills in a real life context. Informal is when the assessor does unplanned observations were as formal is when the observation are planned in