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that with the NCLB Act, students would be proficient in subjects such as math and reading no later than 2014. Thus, the Common Core State Standards was created by a collaboration of “the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with the financial backing of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the political support of the U.S. Department of Education” (Peterson, & Kaplan, 2013, p.…

Second, I wondered about the relationship that existed between the various educational stakeholders of Mike’s education. What is the relationship between Mike’s teachers and his mother? What is the collaboration between the family, medical experts, and school administrators? I believe there exist some misinformation between Mike’s educational advocates. Third, in my small sample, I found that Mike’s teacher did not appropriately differentiate his instructions for his diverse students. Lastly,…

Unit Overview To begin, this unit will be planned for an inclusion Social Studies class, in a middle school seventh grade class. Students will be between the ages of eleven to fourteen. Children in this class have disabilities that range from emotional disturbances, Attention Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, and dyslexia. Students in have a variety of learning needs. As for reading levels most of the class is below grade level. One student is deemed illiterate, and half of the class is more than…

Tina did not meet the Phonological Awareness criterion. Due to her inability to correctly formulate words, it will affect her ability to read, as well as correctly express her wants and need and decode words. This will affect Tina’s ability to gain expressive and receptive language abilities. Phonics will be utilized to help Tina gain phonological awareness. Phonics is a method used to teach children to read and pronounce words, by first learning the sound of the letter, then grouping them,…

As a special educator, it is your job to show and teach your students mechanisms for future success. It’s your job to teach them the skills so that they can ultimately become independent. WHEN YOUR STUDENT SHOWS INDEPENDENCE, PRAISE, PRAISE PRAISE! The best…

Annotated Bibliography Farquharson, M. (2003). Stranded in the past. Learning Disability Practice, 6(10), 6-7. This peer reviewed article investigates into the placement of children with learning disabilities into institutions in Russia. The living conditions of the children in these systems raise issues of care and neglect and also questions the credibility of the system that allows for these children to be diagnosed uneducable and placed in the institutions at birth. The author’s intention…

students with different learning abilities. Four of the 30 students struggle with learning disabilities and another two have emotional disabilities. Into the story comes Ms. Neeser, a first year special education teacher. Along for the ride is her paraeducator, Ms. Taylor, who has worked for this school over ten years. The conflict from the two characters drives from the lack of respect on both sides of the situation. In a difficult situation such as this, how can a teacher address their…

reading social clues. The hippo therapy usually involves being on a horse and they provide strong sensory stimulation to muscles and joints. Hugging the horse as well as watching the horse are stimulating to the patient. Some patients can develop special relationships with the horse which is uncommon for patients on the autism spectrum to…

My model of understanding for information processing is a board game. I took a few of my favorite boards games that I played numerous times growing up and I combined them into one game that depicts how I see information processing. Explanation of model: My model, a board game, is set up like a Shoots and Ladders board. The board as a whole represents the entire information process. There is a spinner for the board game and the spinner represents the stimulus in information processing. The…

The theory of relativity suggests that before the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, space and time did not exist and matter was packed together in a tiny ball. ( DWall, Michael). Since time is measured by motion in space, there was no time without moving cosmos. Time is a thing human invented to have a chronology of events and phases of day and night, it is said that time travel is impossible.Time travel has been proven to exist in artifacts and humans as incredible as it sounds.Time travel has…