Notice some signs of Learning Disability

Project Topic: Learning Disabilities and Developmental delays

Subtopics: Understanding Learning Disabilities and Developmental delays

 Many people question rather or not teachers are effectively teaching students that have a learning disabilities or developmental delays.  Children with learning disabilities have to be in an instructional learning environment that is structured and not too busy.  It is important that they are in least restrictive environment and that meets the needs of their Individualized Educational Program goals.

As a regular educational teacher, I feel that we sometimes lack the knowledge when it comes to including our students that have learning disabilities or developmental delays in a mainstream classroom.  By having a learning disability the student might act out or grades are below average. This is why I feel it is important to understand what your students already know and how to reach them. Students that are developmental delayed can have difficulty expressing their feelings
and thoughts. Also, with developmental delays I will like to focus on the social and emotional strategies that can be implemented into a classroom.

  Even though these issues might be challenging for a teacher; it could also affect the parents. Having a lack of knowledge on how to handle a child with a learning disabilities and developmental delays can cause a parent to be stressed.  Parents should attend informational trainings on how to handle that particular disability. 

The participants in this group will be students ages 4-10, families, and the teachers.  I will focus at one particular elementary school.

 Links to great resources and blogs that I have find that are very helpful when it comes to ideas to teach the whole child and understanding each domain for child development:

 http://www.urbanchildinstitute.org/

http://www.naeyc.org/

https://oldschoolteach.wordpress.com/category/elementary-education-blog/

http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/

http://4theloveofteaching.blogspot.com/

Every Student Can Learn!

When it comes to inspiration related to child development I feel that this quote makes you look at the big picture of teaching the whole child.  Every child learns differently, so as educators we have to make sure that lesson plans are modified to reach all learns. When it comes to child development we have make sure we are focusing on each area  to allow to student to understand, explore, and discovery new things around them.

Making the Real World Connection Through Art

Real World Connection Through Art

In the classroom it important to make connection through life experiences to allow the student grow 

and discovery new things. Being creative allows them to take what they already know and creating 

new visual experiences. According to Janet Barresi, State Superintendent of Public Instruction 

stated that art focus on the following development of a child:  

Physical Skills: develop muscles used for fine motor skills, refine eye-hand coordination, fine motor control and the sense of balance.

 

Social/Emotional Skills: enhance self-expression of feelings, the ability to channel frustrations and anger in a socially acceptable manner, instill pride and confidence, foster an appreciation of differences, and promote cooperation and sharing on group projects.

Language Skills: enhance verbal expressions as projects are described, increase vocabulary through exposure to different materials, tools, colors, texture, and positional words are refined.

Intellectual Skills: provide opportunity for sorting, classifying, making choices, decision making, expressing knowledge of the environment; stimulate intere

What art activities do you use to make that real life connection in your classroom?

How do you keep your student engaged in the lesson?

Reference Page

Barresi, J. (n.d.). Early Childhood/Family Education Programs. Retrieved from The Early Childhood Learning Environment: http://ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/EarlyChildLearnEnv.pdf