Interdisciplinary Capstone Instructor: Gary West August 15‚ 2011 “The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is arguably the most far-reaching education policy initiative in the United States over the last four decades. The hallmark features of this legislation compelled states to conduct annual student assessments linked to state standards‚ to identify schools that are failing to make “adequate
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Checkpoint: The life of a Special Education Teacher Special Education teachers are faced with a wide range of students with different levels of disabilities. It can be levels Autism and Emotional Behavior disorders. There could be language/speech impairments and social deficiencies. Teaching students with a disability can be a challenge‚ so in the reading it showed that the teacher Pam had no experience at all but she was willing to learn all she needs to know on how to work with students with
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SECONDARY EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SEDIP) * SEDIP is a curricular innovation which dovetailed the THIRD ELEMENTARY EDUCATION PROJECT (TEEP). * Purpose was to improve access to secondary education in poverty affected areas. * Started – 2000; ended – 2006. * Initial results showed gains‚ and best practices replicated in other divisions. PURPOSE * Improve the quality of secondary education in provinces. * Increase the rates of participation in secondary
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Let’s talk about the whole controversy between Nature vs. Nurture. Nature is based on DNA. Many people believe that it is DNA that decides on how humans will behave‚ what occupations they will have‚ and what their personalities will be like. Others‚ on the other hand‚ believe that it is the environment‚ or nurture‚ that decides on occupation‚ behavior‚ and personality. Although nature does decide on what color hair you have‚ what eye color you have‚ and what your height is‚ nurture has the greatest
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The Life of a Special Education Teacher The video talks about students that have sensory and severe disabilities but are not always diagnosis as that when they come into the classroom; they are more likely to be diagnosed as developmentally delayed. The teacher seems to be the one that helps with actually telling what is happening with the child and from that the doctors can later diagnose the severity of the disability. On the other hand in the reading it stated that Pam Mims was assigned to
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aggressive boys. These subjects have different social‚ emotional‚ and learning disorders. METHOD The subjects were selected from a group of 88 young boys who have intellectual‚ social‚ and emotional deficits. These boys were enrolled in a special education facility in New Zealand. The students who started before May 2000 and after March 2001‚ which was 49 students‚ were not included because of the likelihood of them leaving before the study was completed. This left a remaining 39 students. These
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Systematic teaching for special education is very important to assure quality educational responsibility to students that need just a little push. Since there are nine adaption techniques I will try to relate 4 teaching strategies to them. Teaching strategy regarding Instructional grouping Since special education progress with a child has and will always be based on “outcome”‚ goals one technique has been instructional grouping. Instructional grouping is nothing more than
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discussed how they plan to make the education system in the United States of America better for every child.Hillary Clinton has stated she would work on raising teachers salary and federal funding and making college more affordable for everyone.Hillary Clinton has been quoted saying.’’The most we’ve ever paid is like 17%...I think that’s one of the reasons why you don’t have the services and the support that your students need to be able to get the education they deserve...there are two big areas
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educator I want to make sure they embrace their skills and help improve in the areas they need to help on. In my field of special education as a teacher and a person who has a learning disability I’ve learned that effective teaching requires patience and flexibility. Teachers need to learn how to adjust because students respond differently to a many forms of assessment and education. People also learn better through preparation and the enthusiasm that the teacher shares with her students. I find that
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Sophia Ald taught Douglas to read‚ and he believed that would be the greatest gift but it turned out to be the biggest curse‚ he said “education and slavery are incompatible with each other.”(Douglass 22). The more Douglass learned‚ the more he hated slave owners. By robbing the slaves of an education the masters had full control over the slave’s minds. Douglass hoped that in the future reading wasn’t a skill only granted to a few‚ but something universally known. Schools
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