10/11/2020
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Miguel Marin
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As a Spanish teacher in elementary school, I have been working with students that have specials needs. It is a great pleasure to work with those students. Why? Because I teach them and they teach me, I love them, they love me, they learned from me, I learned from them. They motivated me to work hard every day.
NICHCY Disability Fact (2011) defined intellectual disability as certain limitations in communication, self-care, and social skills (NICHCY Disability Fact, January 2011). I have a student in third grade that he will be considered a student with special needs. I observed him for more than two weeks. His behavior is hard to understand. During the class, the student cannot express his ideas clearly. He does not organize his thoughts effectively and, he has poor communications skills. For example, he does not keep any conversation for more than five minutes. He will express more than one idea or thoughts at the same time. After five minutes, the student feels frustrated because he doesn't understand what his classmate are talking, and he cannot participate in the conversation. He cannot complete his assignments on time.
One of strategy that I used in my classroom with him is color papers, pictures, and short sentences. Depend on the topic that we are covering in class, the student could associate the new information with pictures. For example, last class, we were talking about nouns and verbs. I made a list of nouns with pictures and showed it to him. He can understand the information effectively. After that, I used a yellow paper to write the definition of concepts and include some examples of nouns. I did the same with the verbs and adjectives. Now, all the students in my class are identifying the nouns in the sentence, for him, I wrote no more than five sentences in color paper. I read with him each sentence, I included all the nouns that were covering in the class with the pictures, highlight with different color one noun in the sentence.
Did he learn? I will answer this question this week when we take the test. Fortunately, his mom is involving in school. I got a positive support from her in my class when as need it.
Refence
NICHCY Disability Fact (January, 2011). Intellectual Disability. Fact sheet #8. Retrieve from: https://fl-pda.org/independent/courses/finearts/index.html#221. |
10/12/2020
Topic:
Tools And Strategies
Miguel Marin
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As a Spanish teacher in elementary school, I have been working with students that have specials needs. It is a great pleasure to work with those students. Why? Because I teach them and they teach me, I love them, they love me, they learned from me, I learned from them. They motivated me to work hard every day.
NICHCY Disability Fact (2011) defined intellectual disability as certain limitations in communication, self-care, and social skills (NICHCY Disability Fact, January 2011). I have a student in third grade that he will be considered a student with special needs. I observed him for more than two weeks. His behavior is hard to understand. During the class, the student cannot express his ideas clearly. He does not organize his thoughts effectively and, he has poor communications skills. For example, he does not keep any conversation for more than five minutes. He will express more than one idea or thoughts at the same time. After five minutes, the student feels frustrated because he doesn't understand what his classmate are talking, and he cannot participate in the conversation. He cannot complete his assignments on time.
One of strategy that I used in my classroom with him is color papers, pictures, and short sentences. Depend on the topic that we are covering in class, the student could associate the new information with pictures. For example, last class, we were talking about nouns and verbs. I made a list of nouns with pictures and showed it to him. He can understand the information effectively. After that, I used a yellow paper to write the definition of concepts and include some examples of nouns. I did the same with the verbs and adjectives. Now, all the students in my class are identifying the nouns in the sentence, for him, I wrote no more than five sentences in color paper. I read with him each sentence, I included all the nouns that were covering in the class with the pictures, highlight with different color one noun in the sentence.
Did he learn? I will answer this question this week when we take the test. Fortunately, his mom is involving in school. I got a positive support from her in my class when as need it.
Refence
NICHCY Disability Fact (January, 2011). Intellectual Disability. Fact sheet #8. Retrieve from: https://fl-pda.org/independent/courses/finearts/index.html#221.
Technology is a great and helpful tool for those students with special needs. In my classroom, I have a smart board, where the students can see and interact with it in different ways. For example, I am using different websites that students can interact with each other. I used a website where the online tutor says the color in Spanish and students come to the front and touch the correct color in the board. If they pick the wrong color, a sad face pops up and students can try again.
The two strategies that I used to are providing visual supports and seat the students close to the board. Visual support helps the student to understand the topic of the day. Pictures with words let the student learn more vocab easier. At the end of the lesson, I provided an information in a color paper. I read it with the student and highlight the vocab words like adjective (in blue color), the verbs (in pink color), and the nouns (in yellow color). This is a kind of technology that you can use in class, besides the smart board. It is not meaning that smart board is not a good technology, it is, I used a lot of websites that allow the students to interact and learn from others. Also, audiobook is great for those students that have learning disabilities. In my classroom, I have like two computers that those students can hear and read the words in Spanish,
To conclude, the two technology that I am using in classroom for learning disability is the smart board and audio- visual books. First, smart board let them to see, do, and create answers about the topic of the day. Audio- visual books help the students to repeat and write the words correctly. At the beginning is hard, because this kind of technology is something new for the students, but if you let them know that you are available to help them, they feel comfortable and participate actively in class. |
10/12/2020
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Miguel Marin
|
As a Spanish teacher in elementary school, I have been working with students that have specials needs. It is a great pleasure to work with those students. Why? Because I teach them and they teach me, I love them, they love me, they learned from me, I learned from them. They motivated me to work hard every day.
NICHCY Disability Fact (2011) defined intellectual disability as certain limitations in communication, self-care, and social skills (NICHCY Disability Fact, January 2011). I have a student in third grade that he will be considered a student with special needs. I observed him for more than two weeks. His behavior is hard to understand. During the class, the student cannot express his ideas clearly. He does not organize his thoughts effectively and, he has poor communications skills. For example, he does not keep any conversation for more than five minutes. He will express more than one idea or thoughts at the same time. After five minutes, the student feels frustrated because he doesn't understand what his classmate are talking, and he cannot participate in the conversation. He cannot complete his assignments on time.
One of strategy that I used in my classroom with him is color papers, pictures, and short sentences. Depend on the topic that we are covering in class, the student could associate the new information with pictures. For example, last class, we were talking about nouns and verbs. I made a list of nouns with pictures and showed it to him. He can understand the information effectively. After that, I used a yellow paper to write the definition of concepts and include some examples of nouns. I did the same with the verbs and adjectives. Now, all the students in my class are identifying the nouns in the sentence, for him, I wrote no more than five sentences in color paper. I read with him each sentence, I included all the nouns that were covering in the class with the pictures, highlight with different color one noun in the sentence.
Did he learn? I will answer this question this week when we take the test. Fortunately, his mom is involving in school. I got a positive support from her in my class when as need it.
Refence
NICHCY Disability Fact (January, 2011). Intellectual Disability. Fact sheet #8. Retrieve from: https://fl-pda.org/independent/courses/finearts/index.html#221.
Technology is a great and helpful tool for those students with special needs. In my classroom, I have a smart board, where the students can see and interact with it in different ways. For example, I am using different websites that students can interact with each other. I used a website where the online tutor says the color in Spanish and students come to the front and touch the correct color in the board. If they pick the wrong color, a sad face pops up and students can try again.
The two strategies that I used to are providing visual supports and seat the students close to the board. Visual support helps the student to understand the topic of the day. Pictures with words let the student learn more vocab easier. At the end of the lesson, I provided an information in a color paper. I read it with the student and highlight the vocab words like adjective (in blue color), the verbs (in pink color), and the nouns (in yellow color). This is a kind of technology that you can use in class, besides the smart board. It is not meaning that smart board is not a good technology, it is, I used a lot of websites that allow the students to interact and learn from others. Also, audiobook is great for those students that have learning disabilities. In my classroom, I have like two computers that those students can hear and read the words in Spanish,
To conclude, the two technology that I am using in classroom for learning disability is the smart board and audio- visual books. First, smart board let them to see, do, and create answers about the topic of the day. Audio- visual books help the students to repeat and write the words correctly. At the beginning is hard, because this kind of technology is something new for the students, but if you let them know that you are available to help them, they feel comfortable and participate actively in class. |
10/13/2020
Topic:
Tools And Strategies
Miguel Marin
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This course provided a lot of educational tools and strategies that the teachers can implemented in their classrooms. For example, organizing information is a great strategy for classrooms. Organize information helps students to understand the topic of the day. Organize information will take place in the lesson in different ways; from simple details to complicated details or from the complicated details to simple terms, and included a summary. When the students use it in their lessons, it is easy to understand and make any questions about. In my case, I used this strategy too much in my classroom because my students are learning a second language and this strategy helps them to learn more new words in their second language.
Another strategy that teachers can implemented is Venn Diagram. With this strategy, students can compare or recognize differences between two or more concepts. I used it when we were talking about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs in Spanish. They can see the differences between concepts and recognized them in the sentences.
In conclusion, implementing organizing information is powerful for those students that are struggling in different course. Organize information is not easy, because as a teacher I need to make sure that the students know about the topic before to start, but is easy when the students understand them. |