Children with special needs

What is a connect type activity?

 Connect type activities combines a person’s life experiences to learning, it brings together what the person already knows   with what they learn, As Mr. Horton states in the text  connect activities  prepare students  to use what they have leaned with their everyday life experiences, he goes on to say that  connect activities  bring together gaps in knowledge.

What type was selected for this activity?

 I choose to use an activity that is based on assessing children with special needs the assessment is to determine  how teachers  can teach  children with disabilities, teacher aim to show  special need children to learn effectively in the classroom no matter what type of disability that they may have. Children will learn successfully because teacher will be helpful and well prepared with the resources need for both student and parent as well as help them go and live a productive life. Special needs students are put into a special education classroom only if they have disabilities or disorders that prohibit them from being a traditional classroom with other students. Special education classrooms are prepared with special learning devices and have fewer students in each classroom depending on the ratio. Students with physical disabilities and who have speech or movement problems are placed in a special class where they are able to get the attention that they require.

Depending on the needs of the child some children who are disabled are able to be placed inside the traditional classroom depending on a special needs expert who thinks that the child would be comfortable around other students. Teachers and schools are becoming more trained to work together in order to provide a positive educational experience for children with special needs. It is beneficial for parents to participate in making decisions and how their children are placed. Through teamwork schools are able to provide a healthy learning environment for every student. Based off what Feeny (2010) says inclusive services are based on the convection that children benefit when they learn from other children together in the classroom. Previously mainstreaming and integration were used to describe practices that giving education to students with disabilities inside traditional classrooms. The choice of activity that I would pick would go with arts and crafts, children with special needs are able to be as creative as they want to be and have the full encouragement of   from teacher and other staff. it is best do encourage them with   creativeness they are  comfortable with as  giving them task that they find  difficult  they will only be discouraging to them. Teachers should make crafts as uncomplicated as they possibly can and fulfill the crafts relating to the child’s skills. Activities such as  finger-painting, and fruit loop necklaces, are just a few of many activities that used to for  students to be creative  with   and for those students who do not  like  getting dirty with the paints  we will offer them

 One of the first steps that would be taken in the process of creating an activity is to produce a needs assessment. A needs assessment is the best way to determine what weaknesses or strong points that the students needs, needs assessment are designed to establish what the learners know and what they need to be taught. This gives learners the opportunity to grow with new knowledge being taught by the activities that they are doing. The assessment will have sixteen special students who are in the  third grade and assisted by two teachers and assistants .

  What do you know?

 Every child learns in their own style, so finding the right place for the needy child is very important. There are some students  who learn better in inclusive environments  while others  need to be placed in a special ed classroom with the needs assessment teachers are about to gain the knowledge needed to teach new skills.

What are you trying to measure, determine, or define? 

 I am trying to determine how students will interact and communicate with others, as well as figure how a better way to get a student to learn.

How will you collect and record information.

 Students are observed and then information will be out in journal for records then used to plan appropriate curriculum for children with special needs, the assessment will include  the child’s developmental areas, physical, social, cognitive skills s well as their child’s  weakness and strength.

How will you report the information you collect? 

 Information is reported on each child from a journal written up after observation.

Are all interested groups included in planning and conducting the needs assessment?

 Parents, Teachers, Principal, and Special need expert are included in  planning and performing  the assessment

    Each individual child is special and being able to determine what classroom best fits their learning experience is the main goal of taking the assessment. The objective is place the child where they can learn and thrive comfortably.

Creating and Implementing Do-Type Learning Activities

An assessment for needs take place before the activity is used, its purpose is to make decisions in regards of the priory if the program.

 What do you know?

 I know that as a teacher it is very important to have computer access for my students so taking them to the computer lab at least 3 times a week would deem beneficial for my class. Once in the computer I should be able to monitor my students as well as help them create their blogs as well, have all the necessary material for the given activity.

 What do you want to know?

 We use the needs assessment we want  teach the students critical thinking skills, as well as help them improve their writing skills the goals  is to  teach  students how important collaboration is when using blogs as a writing tool.

 What are you trying to measure, determine, or define?

 I would like to know if my students will interact well with their peers well when using blogs as a web tool. I want to teach my students new things for example things  like diversity  things about different culture and their values and beliefs using this assessment  will help them to develop strength critical thinking skills.

How will you collect and record information?

Students are monitored and offered assistance inside the computer lab to determine how well they will do on blogs.

How will you report the information you collect?

Students are graded on the given activity that was assigned for their blog and also on a two page typed assignment

Are all interested groups included in planning and conducting the needs assessment?

 Teachers will help as assist with the necessary needs of the assessment, the students will then partake in  the collaboration  of the blog  and with their peers, they will be a assigned a  two page typed assignment what they have learn from blogging.

Cultures Around the would

The do typed that I chose pertains to cultures around the world the needs assessment would be for a seventh or eighth grade class in regards to social studies the classroom would have an even number of students (usually about sixteen students) in the classroom we would talk about blogging and then introduced to it inside the computer lab they will be shown how to create a blog and asked to create one and then the connect it with their fellow classmates blog this helps with collaboration.

To get the as assessment off the ground students will be given a choice of six different cultures to choose from then they will be asked to pick their choice out of the given research and assume the role of their culture they have chosen, each student will post pictures and information regarding the beliefs and values of that particular culture, students are then required to post comments on how they feel about the culture as well as what they have learned. They will outline the steps taken for information they have learned and found and to end the work and asked to type a two page assignment.

Reference

Atherton, J. S. (2011) Learning and Teaching; Piaget's developmental theory Retrieved on October 21, 2011 from http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm

Horton, W. (2012). E-Learning by design (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Wiley.

Learning Actvity

Hello everyone this is my first blog I guess it would be a good web tool for  teachers wanting give their students some experience, I would have to say it was fairly easy for me  since I am already familiar with creating websites from building my own and  creating one in class, I found it  fairly easy to do. so here are a few benefits that I found  for the site

      Benefits

• Very easy to use for beginners
• Anyone can create one
•  Gives  incite on any topic  being discussed
• materials can  archived

Cons

• Can be hard if a user is unfamiliar with it.
• You have to update blog regularly
• Lots of maintenance is required.

 Well everyone hope I did this the correct way and to your liking thanks.