Running head: Learning disabilities Learning Disabilities Anthony Genchi Grand Canyon University SPE 526 February 22‚ 2012 Abstract Individuals who have a learning disability‚ communication disorder‚ or are giftedness may have a rough time in the classroom setting. It is the job of the teacher to understand these disabilities or disorders by gaining knowledge of their characteristics and their causes so that they can adjust
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Motivational Learning Jaron Ekers EXP105: Personal Dimensions of Education Prof. Katherine Myers January 25‚ 2013 Contexts that Motivate Learning. Motivational learning can be broken into four contexts. Those contexts are: Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential‚ and Idealistic. The practical context of learning would be learning something because you know in advance it will benefit you. The personal context of learning would be learning something
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LEARNING DISABILITIES Learning disabilities‚ or learning disorders‚ are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. Kids with learning disabilities aren’t lazy or dumb. In fact‚ most are just as smart as everyone else. Their brains are simply wired differently. The most common types of learning disabilities involve problems with reading‚ writing‚ math‚ reasoning‚ listening and speaking. These are heterogeneous
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Inclusive learning and teaching The tutors are to facilitate inclusive learning and teaching. To effectively deliver and promote inclusion‚ equality and diversity within a learning environment without any discrimination in respect to gender‚ colour‚ race‚ nationality‚ sexual orientation‚ or disability. All learners’ are entitled to learn in an appropriate environment‚ to be given equal opportunity‚ freedom of expression‚ to be treated fairly and with respect. For example for those for whom English
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Learning style is the way human beings take in new and/or difficult information‚ how they process‚ store and retrieve it. (Prashnig‚ B: Debating Learning Styles) Having studied a small number of learning styles I will evaluate my own personal learning style and how I can use this through the next three years of my life at Bucks New University. I will look at the most popular theories in use today and their value in today’s world. The theory of individual learning styles began in the 1970’s and
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One of the features that blended learning is superior to the merely online class is the essence of supervisors to offer guidance in person. So that students can discuss what they learned from the Internet with peers or professors. The application of online learning during face-to-face class breaks the limits of the traditional class that relying on textbooks merely‚ which promotes deep learning and extends knowledge. The emergency of various educational technologies makes me think of the infinite
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Learning Styles Essay There are many learning styles‚ but social attracts me the best because my better grades reflect off learning verbally. Verbal communication helps me as long as its not a lecture‚ but a group discussion. Learning new styles with pictures or diagrams is a another style I enjoy as long as we talk about the picture/diagram. I can understand long lectures if the teacher has the outline of the notes on the board as he talks about the lesson. My english high school instructor’s
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YEARS RESEARCH literature on learning strategies has experienced tremendous growth. In 1990 alone‚ at least three books on this subject appeared (9; 26; 28). Interest in learning strategies is due in large part to increased attention to the learner and to learner-centered instructional models of teaching (2; 37). These trends can be traced to the recognition that learning begins with the learner. The present study investigated the key types of foreign language learning strategies used by university
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Planning For Assessment in Learning Assignment Arts education encourages individual‚ creative responses and needs an appropriate assessment methodology that genuinely reflects the expressive and creative dimensions of art. The aesthetic qualities and understandings that learners’ bring to their work are a valued and important dimension of the art experience (Ross‚ et al 1983: p10). The conception of a fair valid‚ reliable and inclusive assessment tool was motivated by my own reflective teaching
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Learning Differences Paper Eddie* is an eleven year old boy who is in the 5th grade at AMA. He has had significant school behavior problems since early elementary school resulting in AMA as his third elementary school placement. Eddie is a general education student‚ but receives support from the at-risk specialist. Eddie’s mother reports significant difficulty with his behavior at home. She states he “doesn’t get along” with his 3 siblings‚ ages 4‚ 2‚ and 10 months and his relationship
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