Frustration Anxiety Tension (The Fat City Workshop) Continued

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In class on Nov. 2 we continued watching this video.


Points that I pulled from the video that I thought were interesting and valuable were:

-Teachers using "I can't help the LDD child because it's not fair to the other children" when it has nothing to do with the other students. This is what THIS child needs. I liked how you gave the example with cpr and how if someone needed cpr then you wouldn't give it to them because it's not fair to everyone if this is your reasoning.

"Fairness is not everyone getting the same thing but everyone getting what they deserve."

-Just because you have to learn in a different way-- does NOT make you stupid-

-teachers if they are enlightened can have positive effects on self esteem

-the real challenge is educating those without a learning disability

FOCUS: changing our practice and the environment is through differentiating instruction-- it is NOT about "fixing" them

Differentiating instruction is where the teacher modifies:
content,
process,
and product

through student:
readiness,
interests,
and learning profiles.

As a teacher we need to ensure we have a little bit of every type of learning types to create learning opportunities for the different type of learners in the class--verbal, cognitive, kinestic.

Examples could be watching a movie about the book, writing a paper about the book, having a debate about a topic, acting out a part of the book