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Assistive Technology

I have in mind one child, who has dyspraxia.  "Dyspraxia is a developmental disability of organization of movement.  It is caused by immaturity of the brain resulting in messages not being properly transmitted to the body.  A subtype of Developmental Co-ordination Disorder." Primary problems Clumsy, accident-prone and messy Experience a prolonged period of struggle in attempting to master new skills Particular difficulty carrying out co-ordinated actions smoothly and actions to a timed sequence Poor posture Difficulty integrating learned motor skills with other skills and generalizing skills Children with dyspraxia may show lack of self-belief, lack of confidence, anxiety, stress, and refusal to interact or lack of practice. HOW CAN I HELP List all areas of difficulty Make sure a skill is developmentally appropriate Break down task Practice skills lots of times Set goals, plan, do and check for the student  Encourage the child Set a s...

Troubleshooting

Thechopedia explains Troubleshooting. Troubleshooting is primarily done to keep a system or software in the desired condition, especially when it encounters or exhibits a problem.  It is a systematic approach done within one or more phases depending on the complexity of a problem.  Typically, the first step involves identifying what the problem is followed by coming up with a solution.  However, there can be more than one reason for the problem, which will require a more complex solution. Individual troubleshooting such a question might test for different solutions to eliminate the problem or fault. Pictures from Kathleena

Assessment

Flubaroo  combine with Google Forms make an excellent tool for teachers.  It helps to read assignments and assessments, gets report and analysis on students performance.  The steps shown below are taking from  http://www.flubaroo.com/home .  Because I'm new on Flubaroo it was essential for me to follow the steps of Flubaroo so I can have a better idea; it seems a straightforward tool to use and will help me for the assessment of students.  However, the traditional way for assessments without technology may apply for some of the students I may have.  I will be working on a Special Education classroom, and each student may have individualizations task that may need to be graded in different ways. Step 1:  Create an assignment   Create a new Google Form If there is an existing Google Spreadsheet, it allows you to recreate associated form by clicking "Tools/ "Create a form" as shown below The other option is going...

Philosophy of Teaching

My personal vision of Special Education is not from many years of experience in teaching; I have not never thought on a school.  My own experiences have inspired me, and they still encourage me to become a teacher.  Gabriela was very quiet, unique in her way and not social at all, she is my oldest sister.  When she got to second grade, her teacher said to my parents “it is a waste of your money, and my time to have your daughter at school, she will never learn to write.”  On that same day, my dad said, “Gabriela will learn to read, and I will teach her.” A few months later Gabriela was reading.  However, her challenges and struggles at school did not end, the lack of teaching strategies, modification and not being diagnosed; Gabriela was not able to finish school. A few years later when Gabriela was around twenty-four years, she got the opportunity to come to North America, she was diagnosed with ADHD.  Finally, Gabriela was able to understand what was h...

Students Tutorials

As a future Educator, I'm focusing my teaching on students with exceptionality.   Voice Thread , is a learning tool for enhancing and engage students in creating, sharing on images, Microsoft PowerPoint, video, audio, files, documents, using a microphone, webcam. Voice Thread,  can provide skills on Literacy to students improving their fluency, to think about the story, main idea. Voice Thread can take reading to the next level; I can see the students narrates the story making different voices for each character on the story, this can be a workgroup or personal while having fun the student's fluency can improve.  Exceptional children can benefit from this tool as well, not just only on reading fluency; they can use Voice Thread for group discussions and share it with the group or the classroom. Math instructions, the students or teacher, can videotape any type of directions and they can go back to the videos.  It gives a lot of room to students, parents...

Global Citizens

The Foundation of Global Citizen gives a clear concept of its meaning.  “The Global Citizen is above all a philanthropist, a friend to all humankind who seeks to help others.  It is the Global Citizen who can make the grand-scale decisions that will shift the world onto a better, more secure and sustainable path.” The Global Goals For Sustainable Development gives 17 Goals that are great to incorporate on a classroom. In the world that we live in, it gets challenging to teach of being a friend to humankind.  The news is full of many different events, events,  that may affect us directly or indirectly.  The decline of humanity has been seen all over the world.  Sadly, our students are taught to hide in different places in the school on the occasion of an intruder. Sheltering Global Citizens will start with me, the teacher. Modeling kindness to the students and everyone in the school and adding a lesson on the  17 ...