This song relates back to a fun little video that helps to show kids their different shapes. It's done by puppets so that it can better relate back to kids, and is done in a fun tune that children can easilly follow along with.
I like this song becuase it cane easilly be taught and relayed back to students on any level of learning. It is colorful and gives both imaginative and real life experiences with shapes.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Blog
Today I found a blog that was designed to look over different Special Education ideas, policies and many other interesting facts. This site deals with many different thoughts about Special Education, and it also looks over many powerful facts about what may be occuring within the schooling system in the near future.
The blog looks to be updated whenever new ideas or helpful sites come up, such as a resource site that teachers can use, such as common core and read aloud standards . Another sited source on the page relates back to a more intense standing about IDEA issues. One of the links will take you to a page that shows a chart relating back to summs of money that IDEA has thought about using to cut funding.
This blog page is very helpful with providing informationt that is related back to Special Education. I think that this is a great source to read over now and again for news that relates back to my field.
The blog looks to be updated whenever new ideas or helpful sites come up, such as a resource site that teachers can use, such as common core and read aloud standards . Another sited source on the page relates back to a more intense standing about IDEA issues. One of the links will take you to a page that shows a chart relating back to summs of money that IDEA has thought about using to cut funding.
This blog page is very helpful with providing informationt that is related back to Special Education. I think that this is a great source to read over now and again for news that relates back to my field.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
An awesome APP!
This webpage that I found relates back to a great app for the Ipad that I found. The app deals with a touch screen effect game that uses images of animals or other objects in order to help incorporate eye hand cordination as well as memory.
This could be used in many different areas, along with Special Education. I think it would be a helpful tool to use in a more hightech classroom environment. There are also many different levels of the match it up game that can be adapted to different age or cognitive development levels.
Also, the webpage can also house many different Book apps as well. This Book App page also gives many different indicators about other good apps that can be applied to different resources other than the Ipad.
This could be used in many different areas, along with Special Education. I think it would be a helpful tool to use in a more hightech classroom environment. There are also many different levels of the match it up game that can be adapted to different age or cognitive development levels.
Also, the webpage can also house many different Book apps as well. This Book App page also gives many different indicators about other good apps that can be applied to different resources other than the Ipad.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Article: Teacher time use with methods....
Today, the article that I found related back to time use within Special Education classrooms. Special Education Teacher Time Use in Four Types of Programs by authors Kimberly J. Vannest, Shanna Hagan-Burke, et al... is an academic journal that I had come across. The article I found was on EBSCOhost, and this is the webpage that linked to the short, thirteen page article I was looking at. The article did a studey on about twenty four different schools within a neighboring area, and looked for different methods that the special education teachers used throughout their teaching.
The article also went onto explain the differences in the samples of teachers taken from the schools. There were 31 in total, and had 24 females, the rest being males. Also, the teachers needed to meet specific requirments within the study, such as being a certified Special Education Teacher, as well as working full time with individuals in high incidence disabilities categories. The study goes on to display charts throughout it's research to support the data that was being found.
Some of the main points within this article is that it displays the differences among the multiple classroom methods that some of the teachers are working in. It goes over to explain the Resource Classrooms, Adaptive Behavior Classrooms, Co-teaching, and Content Mastery Classroom. The article explains in further detail different methods that were used to evaluate and study the differences teachers used within these types of classrooms in order to allow for effective teaching time and strategies. There are ten types in total that most of the teachers displayed throuout a school day, some of them include: Special Education assessment, State-Mandated assessment, and Academic Instruction.
The study goes on to clarify the differences and the conclusion of the research that had been taken. Although they give a lot of images and supportive data analysis to back up their findings, there are still some slightly 'loose' fitting ideas. From what I came to understand within the article's ending though, was that they had found the research to be a success in seeing the different types of methods and how the assessment process worked alongside one another. A lot of the research concluded that there appeared to be a well developed organization among the teachers' use of classroom resources, and that their were only really issues with the different tests that were administered to their students. Some of the limitations of the study found that some of the teachers may not have accuratly recorded their own data, or that it was a possibility that maybe some of the students should have been re-evaluated for the critiria required to become involved with special education.
Overall, the article was interesting, and I enjoyed reaching about the different findings of how these four different teaching classrooms used different assessments over multiple fields of time to gather research. By different fields of time, it is meant that some were studied over the course of a year-long progress, and others were seen only to last as long as a semester.
The article also went onto explain the differences in the samples of teachers taken from the schools. There were 31 in total, and had 24 females, the rest being males. Also, the teachers needed to meet specific requirments within the study, such as being a certified Special Education Teacher, as well as working full time with individuals in high incidence disabilities categories. The study goes on to display charts throughout it's research to support the data that was being found.
Some of the main points within this article is that it displays the differences among the multiple classroom methods that some of the teachers are working in. It goes over to explain the Resource Classrooms, Adaptive Behavior Classrooms, Co-teaching, and Content Mastery Classroom. The article explains in further detail different methods that were used to evaluate and study the differences teachers used within these types of classrooms in order to allow for effective teaching time and strategies. There are ten types in total that most of the teachers displayed throuout a school day, some of them include: Special Education assessment, State-Mandated assessment, and Academic Instruction.
The study goes on to clarify the differences and the conclusion of the research that had been taken. Although they give a lot of images and supportive data analysis to back up their findings, there are still some slightly 'loose' fitting ideas. From what I came to understand within the article's ending though, was that they had found the research to be a success in seeing the different types of methods and how the assessment process worked alongside one another. A lot of the research concluded that there appeared to be a well developed organization among the teachers' use of classroom resources, and that their were only really issues with the different tests that were administered to their students. Some of the limitations of the study found that some of the teachers may not have accuratly recorded their own data, or that it was a possibility that maybe some of the students should have been re-evaluated for the critiria required to become involved with special education.
Overall, the article was interesting, and I enjoyed reaching about the different findings of how these four different teaching classrooms used different assessments over multiple fields of time to gather research. By different fields of time, it is meant that some were studied over the course of a year-long progress, and others were seen only to last as long as a semester.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
TED talk: Blog and video
Today I was looking on TED for an interesting blog page. I came accross issues relating back to highschool drop outs. This blog gives not only a video relating back to Bill Gates' speech on economic issues, but also dealing with education.
The beginning of the blog explains when the air date for the PBS and TED talks education broadcast will be shown. The video segment that is accompanied with the blog displays Bill Gates. He goes on to speak about state budgets and why they are important for us to keep in mind. The two main reasons he gives deals with; Big money, and Little scrutiny. He mentions that there is a deficit of 10%, where the money seems to be lost, and that there is little notice of how this amount of money goes unaccounted for. Gates tried to explain issues among revenue imbalances and how they were found, or covered up. He uses California as an example (Mostly due to the idea of that's where he is giving this segment of the TED talk), and mentions some of the ways that the issues of deficit go unnoticed; Borrowing money from private markets, borrow more from taxpayers and withhold about 110%, deferring school payments, and sell off revenue from tobacco products. One of the major points he goes over is with the healthcare issue, which will need even more money shoved into it. With the lack of money going to healthcare, money will be cut by half that will be for Education spending and funding.
He also mentions some of the impacts that an issue or procedure like this is going to have on education, such as no incentives for excellence, no bold experiements and no teacher effectiveness measurement. Towards the end of his speech, he gives a few mentions of books that parents, teachers and basically everyone should look into that deals with spending, Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? by Marguerite Roza is one of the books that he mentions. He also mentions that there needs to be a strive for better accounting, like private accounting.
I think that this is somethign that should be looked at. Because of state funding issues, and it's not only happening within California, but elsewhere. This all relates back to tuitions, affecting high schools to colleges.
The beginning of the blog explains when the air date for the PBS and TED talks education broadcast will be shown. The video segment that is accompanied with the blog displays Bill Gates. He goes on to speak about state budgets and why they are important for us to keep in mind. The two main reasons he gives deals with; Big money, and Little scrutiny. He mentions that there is a deficit of 10%, where the money seems to be lost, and that there is little notice of how this amount of money goes unaccounted for. Gates tried to explain issues among revenue imbalances and how they were found, or covered up. He uses California as an example (Mostly due to the idea of that's where he is giving this segment of the TED talk), and mentions some of the ways that the issues of deficit go unnoticed; Borrowing money from private markets, borrow more from taxpayers and withhold about 110%, deferring school payments, and sell off revenue from tobacco products. One of the major points he goes over is with the healthcare issue, which will need even more money shoved into it. With the lack of money going to healthcare, money will be cut by half that will be for Education spending and funding.
He also mentions some of the impacts that an issue or procedure like this is going to have on education, such as no incentives for excellence, no bold experiements and no teacher effectiveness measurement. Towards the end of his speech, he gives a few mentions of books that parents, teachers and basically everyone should look into that deals with spending, Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? by Marguerite Roza is one of the books that he mentions. He also mentions that there needs to be a strive for better accounting, like private accounting.
I think that this is somethign that should be looked at. Because of state funding issues, and it's not only happening within California, but elsewhere. This all relates back to tuitions, affecting high schools to colleges.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Reading Rockets!
This long video is just a little tip giver about how to participate within a child's life. It focuses a lot on parents involvement with their own kids. It also stressed about teachers and how they adapt to each and every one of their student's needs. This video podcast goes over many of the different media adaptations that families face, a lot of it being focused on technology, not only at home, but also within the classroom.
This video also gave good pointers on different educational medias that can be used within the classroom, such as videos on literacy or math on youtube. There is also a heavy indication of how context should not be subtracted from a lesson simply because there is being a video, podcast or other technological media being used within the classroom. Lessons should always have meaning and understanding portrayed to the viewers, no matter the age group.
What I wanted to focus on mainly was the site that I drew this video from. I thought that it was a great place to start with one of my projects for adaptive activities for not only students, but with parents as well. While exploring the site, I thought that it would be a good idea to archieve it, along with making sure that it could be found here. Having something like this available to other parents as well as teachers is important. I loved this site becuase it made making lesson activites easier to create. The Reading Rockets web page has many different learning activites, as well as other gread media uses, such as informative videos as well as lessons. The video above was recieved from this webpage of the site, and they have many other informative podcasts as well!
Friday, March 8, 2013
Personal
Although today may or may not count becuase this event occured wed., I found that during my SPED340 class to be very interesting.
We are currently working with chapter five, and so have begun learning how to develope goals, monitor evaluation and progress sheets, and basically make our own mock IEP paper. I think that this will be fun becuase we are also making our own charts to go along with how we are monitoring our 'fake' student. It will help to give different perspectives on how to deal with one specific area of a behavioral or social issue, and with the entire class doing this small homework assignment, there should be a lot of different feedback come next wed.
We are currently working with chapter five, and so have begun learning how to develope goals, monitor evaluation and progress sheets, and basically make our own mock IEP paper. I think that this will be fun becuase we are also making our own charts to go along with how we are monitoring our 'fake' student. It will help to give different perspectives on how to deal with one specific area of a behavioral or social issue, and with the entire class doing this small homework assignment, there should be a lot of different feedback come next wed.
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