Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Video Podcast on RTI
If you're having issues with the video, this site is where I found it! It's instructional, and has many great videos!
What I found today related back to a short video on the RTI model, and how it's been changing not only how teachers are able to reach Special Education students, but also how it helps with other groups of Regular Ed. students as well.
However, the video looks over the many different impacts on how it's been worked with Special Education students. It goes over one of the main idea of how students are now being evaluated, or identified with a disability. It showed how useful it was at finding students, but not at how it was changing the students' lessons. The teachers and staff were then able to match up the abilities of the students to what kind of methods that would help them with learning. It helped in making decisions in how they are taught.
It also spoke about how students could be identified, and the negatives of being labeled. Non-categorical models were the new name given to students who had special needs and that were less readilly known among the other students. This had proved to have taken some pressures of being a 'labeled' student off of the children that were involved.
The story wrapped up with how much the RTI scale was helping to reach all the students, and being able to show the student's where their progress was taking place. Overall, I thought this was a good video podcast on how RTI was benifiting everyone rather than a select group of individuals.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Informative Website
Today I was looking online for some coloring pages that I may be able to use within my play center for an ECED210 activity and I came across an amazing site that related to Special Needs. This website gives many different definitions of multiple disabilities. One of the ones that I found interesting related back to Dyslexia, and different ways that if can be defined. The page that it took me to also gave many different resources that both children and adults could use to seek help, or even learn about.
This site was just informative and interesting to look at. On the side panal though, it gives different links to other areas of topics, such as working with art, history and even the science field. The area that I was looking at related back to S.E.N. section. I was a little sad when I did not find too many good printables or activities though.
This site was just informative and interesting to look at. On the side panal though, it gives different links to other areas of topics, such as working with art, history and even the science field. The area that I was looking at related back to S.E.N. section. I was a little sad when I did not find too many good printables or activities though.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Collaboration for EL/Special Education students
On the Ebsco Host data base I found an interesting abstract from an article that I found. This is the link to the abstract article that I found. What caught my eye was the idea of collaboration among both special education teachers and EL or regular ed teachers.
This is the PDF file that was attached to the article's abstract. The article was made by Jennifer Canillas Stein and the article's title is name, 'The Case for Collaboration: Integrating Information on English Learners and Special Education in Teacher Preparation Programs.'
The six page article goes over differnent collaboration techniques that professions should take in order to better teach their EL and Special Education students. There was also research done on percentages comparing normal special education students, vs. the minority of language impaired special ed. students. There is also a heavy indication for an IEP team to be able to distingues language issues vs. academic issues within a student's learning ability. The article gives stressed information about the need of importance of IEP team members to communicate to one another. It speaks about the benifits that senior members can always pass down to newer members.
This is the PDF file that was attached to the article's abstract. The article was made by Jennifer Canillas Stein and the article's title is name, 'The Case for Collaboration: Integrating Information on English Learners and Special Education in Teacher Preparation Programs.'
The six page article goes over differnent collaboration techniques that professions should take in order to better teach their EL and Special Education students. There was also research done on percentages comparing normal special education students, vs. the minority of language impaired special ed. students. There is also a heavy indication for an IEP team to be able to distingues language issues vs. academic issues within a student's learning ability. The article gives stressed information about the need of importance of IEP team members to communicate to one another. It speaks about the benifits that senior members can always pass down to newer members.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Acronyms and Terms
Today I was searching the web for an idea to write about for my philosophy project, and there was a thought that crossed my mind: What about if I had something handy that I could have as a reference for terms that I did not readilly know. Well, after searching for a little bit, I came across a great web page lebeled as acronym central!
After making sure that my computer will always have a copy of this, I decided to use it as today's post so that I would be able to look back at certain terms that are frequently used within the Special Educational field. I suggest having a quick look for yourself, and decide if maybe some of the terms that are being used now, really mean what you've always thoguht they were, such as CASS, Council of Administrators of Special Services, which was actually formerly known as CAPS and CASE, A professional organization for Special Education and Pupil Services Personnel.
After making sure that my computer will always have a copy of this, I decided to use it as today's post so that I would be able to look back at certain terms that are frequently used within the Special Educational field. I suggest having a quick look for yourself, and decide if maybe some of the terms that are being used now, really mean what you've always thoguht they were, such as CASS, Council of Administrators of Special Services, which was actually formerly known as CAPS and CASE, A professional organization for Special Education and Pupil Services Personnel.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Once Upon a School
Today I've looked up a TED talk video, and while browsing the site, I found this video.
During this somewhat lengthy video, Eggers' speaks about how different types of children and their homestyles. One of the main family structures he hits on that deals back to education, is english language learners. He continues on to speak about a part of his life when he was living near a tutor, where students could flow in whenever, and then this way they could give time to other neighborhood kids. When they had rented the space, they were told they had to use some of the space for retail value. Eggers decided to put a 'pirate supply store' in the back, where kids and adults alike could go and have a look around.
The tutoring/publishing center gave an opportunity to help students after school with homework, and being able to recieve help from adults that worked there. Eggers explained this as producing a happy family life with the free time that this produced, and that a happy family, would help support an entire community. The video also goes on to continue speaking about how in Brooklyn, another store opened, which tried hard to work alongside Eggers' idea of the after and during school tutor sessions. instead of naming itself a 'pirate supple store' though, they were titled with, 'Brooklyn Superhero Supply.'
Feel free to have a look at the video yourself though, it's very interesting, and I think that with Eggers' idea of making a tutor area that's not within a school gives kid's an opportunity to help students who may not have parents to help them when they go home after school.
Follow this link to a TED talk!
During this somewhat lengthy video, Eggers' speaks about how different types of children and their homestyles. One of the main family structures he hits on that deals back to education, is english language learners. He continues on to speak about a part of his life when he was living near a tutor, where students could flow in whenever, and then this way they could give time to other neighborhood kids. When they had rented the space, they were told they had to use some of the space for retail value. Eggers decided to put a 'pirate supply store' in the back, where kids and adults alike could go and have a look around.
The tutoring/publishing center gave an opportunity to help students after school with homework, and being able to recieve help from adults that worked there. Eggers explained this as producing a happy family life with the free time that this produced, and that a happy family, would help support an entire community. The video also goes on to continue speaking about how in Brooklyn, another store opened, which tried hard to work alongside Eggers' idea of the after and during school tutor sessions. instead of naming itself a 'pirate supple store' though, they were titled with, 'Brooklyn Superhero Supply.'
Feel free to have a look at the video yourself though, it's very interesting, and I think that with Eggers' idea of making a tutor area that's not within a school gives kid's an opportunity to help students who may not have parents to help them when they go home after school.
Follow this link to a TED talk!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Activities
So, for day two, I was skimming online and I found a short little page about a quick activity for both special education and regular education students. The page that this link takes you to should revolve around an idea about St. Patrick's day.
The page goes over some different project ideas that the author posted to help other educators or paretns along with ideas to give to their kids. The idea that I liked the most, was this one, which consistes of a short dot- to- dot activity for a student. I thought that this could be a good short activity for students who have been working hard all day, or simply have some extra time on their hands!
The page goes over some different project ideas that the author posted to help other educators or paretns along with ideas to give to their kids. The idea that I liked the most, was this one, which consistes of a short dot- to- dot activity for a student. I thought that this could be a good short activity for students who have been working hard all day, or simply have some extra time on their hands!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
1...2...3 SONG!
I would say that this is a beginner song that has a nice pace and a low starting number sequence to learn from. I liked this video because it is not only because of its smooth rhythm but also because it could be used as a sing along as well.
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