always struggled with the choice of following my educational ambitions or gaining work experience. While I had the desire for a more advanced level of knowledge in the form of a doctoral degree I struggled with timing and opportunity. During my first year as a college student‚ I questioned whether college was the right fit for me. I lost my focus because I could not decide what I ultimately wanted out of the experience. Three majors and one school transfer later‚ I was considering graduate school because
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Teaching is not an exact science‚ where one teaching strategy fits all. Having a lesson planned that is carefully prepared may encourage some students to improve their grades‚ craft an incredible story‚ and attend college. That same lesson may leave other students discouraged and confused. Effective teaching requires creativity and flexibility. Teaching techniques and strategies must be adjusted and monitored frequently by both general educators and special educators. Only a portion of the lesson
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Assignment One Focus on the Learner As a practising teacher it may be necessary to write a report on a particular student in regard to their learning process. This report may be for a student’s employer or for further learning in a school or college environment. In this report I am observing and reporting on a student called Anna from Poland. Anna is a lady who has lived in Ireland for seven years. She arrived in Ireland with very limited English language skills. She said in her formative
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My learning throughout the first year has been helped by an unerring optimism in the value of nursing‚ and an appreciation that each and every daily interaction augments my experience (Spouse 2003:200‚ Marris 1986 cited by Johns 2000:65). This enthusiasm‚ however‚ has caused an inhibitory effect on my self-directed researching‚ and created conflict in some placement areas. Whilst developing my role as a nurse‚ my activities as a person at home and beyond have diminished‚ as I attempt to adjust to
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Behavioral Observations: Ms. Johnson is an 18-year-old African American female who presented for a vocational assessment on March 07‚ 2017. Currently‚ Ms. Johnson is a student. Ms. Johnson arrived on time for her scheduled appointment unaccompanied. Because Ms. Johnson is a transitional student‚ her means of transportation was the local school bus. She appeared her stated age and was of average height and weight. Also‚ she was neatly dressed in formal clothing with no apparent body odor. Ms. Johnson‘s
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Disability experience and reflective journal: We are assigned to do this assignment by Dr.Shaima yasin. At the beginning we were taught about the instructions on how to do this assignment. We are going to use Gibbs reflective cycle to show our disability experience and reflective journal that we had in the campus. In the beginning of this experiment‚ we went to get the wheelchair that we are going to use. we took ourselves on a tour around the campus‚ we started from the classrooms in our faculty
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Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities 1 Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities 2 Task 1 Part A: Summarize the six key components of the original 1975 IDEA In 1975‚ President Gerald Ford signed into law Public Law 94-142‚ Education for Handicap Act. This federal law was created to assure that all children with disabilities have free and appropriate education available to them. The six key components of the original 1975 Education
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Intellectual Disability Student Population Within‚ at the least‚ the United States‚ we are most familiar with identifying individuals that lack cognitive skills as having “mental retardation‚” but the legal term that is now being used is “intellectual disability.” Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that protects the education of certain disabled children from age 3 up to the age of 21. Under IDEA‚ intellectual disabilities is one of the thirteen categories in which students ages
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labeling always benefits students with disabilities. When someone is labeled they are often seen for their disability before they are seen as just being a person. People tend to focus more on the disability of the person and the fact that they cannot perform a task instead of modifying the task so they can perform it to the best of their ability. Labeling a student under one of the thirteen categories may distinguish which disability the child has but‚ not all cases of that disability are the same. No
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In a presentation about parents and families of students with disabilities‚ the Riley family came up and shared their experiences about living with Catherine‚ a woman who has Down syndrome. The three presenters who shared were Molly‚ Nola‚ and Catherine. Molly‚ who is Catherine’s older sister‚ talked about what it was like growing up together with Catherine and how it affected her life. Nola‚ Catherine’s mother‚ told what it was like bringing and raising a child with Down syndrome in this world.
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