5/20/2023
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Amber Moran
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I am an ESE Teacher and currently monitor 45 Middle School ESE students. One particular SLD student has a hard time with testing and retaining information read. She was a student who got in trouble quite a bit on campus but once I was able to get to know her better, I understood that she didn't understand what she was reading therefor couldn't and didn't want to work on tasks given. She was frustrated and embarrassed. She would click through and answer computer based questions of 12 and be finished in under one minute and would earn an extremely low grade and didn't care. Once I earned her trust, we worked together on reading slower and focused on words in the question. Identified words she didn't know. I used the reciprocal teaching strategy and keyword mnemonic strategy. She gained confidence, asked more questions, took risks and self reflected quite a bit. It was wonderful to see her grow and smile more! Her grades went up drastically. I work mostly in 7th and 8th grade ELA classes right now. I think that I am going to start using the Cornell note-taking strategy and see how this works with some of my other students. My students dislike writing and it's challenging to get them to write a summary. I'm thinking that the way this strategy breaks down the information, the students will learn to understand and feel confident in their summary and essay writing. |
5/21/2023
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Amber Moran
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I am an ESE S/F and haven’t taught in an art classroom as of yet but I use adapted accommodations everyday. Each student is different and has different needs. My students are tested with me in “small groups” of under 17 in the middle school environment when they are F.A.S.T. testing. They each have specific seating so that they are in a familiar environment for every assessment. I have one student that sits right next to me so that he feels comfortable and I can easily prompt him if need be. He can stand at his desk when he needs a little break. I think that when assessing this particular student's fine arts learning, he would definitely benefit from being seated next to his teacher in the classroom and establish timelines for him for specific tasks so he can, have fun, be successful in his progress and learning as well as to help him not get frustrated with himself in finishing the task given. |