Assistive Technology: Visually Impaired

When it comes to educating the minds of young children there are many positive benefits, both on a personal level and individually. Creating strong, lasting relationships with the children and families, contributing to the growth process of developing minds, advance personal pedagogy, and so much more. Students’ success becomes your own, and to parents, you become a beacon of support for their child’s development and education. Being an early childhood professional is more than just being a teacher; it’s taking on a role that requires endless patience, forever love, and countless smiles. For me personally, my teaching beliefs and values have always stemmed from personal experiences within the classroom and implementation of curriculum that

You and your child can together go for the shopping of the necessary ingredients and all along the way encourage your child and let him feel the ownership in this case. - Educational apps that are available online are a heartthrob of millions now. They are excessively used by the present generation as they are proving the majorly known statement of "Learning made fun". The main intention of the educational apps is to engage your kids into studies but not by books instead by the interactive games, quizzes and animation. This is because, kids learn better when they are playing.

Given the large diversity of students in classrooms today; it is imperative that teachers learn how to become diverse educators through the techniques and implications they use in their practices. "Diverse responsive teaching (DRT) has emerged as an important approach to the challenges of classroom diversity…DRT also promotes mutual respect among class members and provides valuable lessons for life by empowering students with accurate information about diversity" (Price, 2019, pgs. xv-xvi). To become an effective teacher, a person must possess numerous qualities: creating an environment for learning, helping students develop understanding, extending and applying knowledge, and diverse responsive teaching; to name a few (Nine Strategies for

1. Define Disciplinary Literacy (DL): Disciplinary Literacy is learning how to read, think about, write, communicate, and use information like each discipline’s expert. It involves the tasks and processes of reading, thinking, inquiring, and speaking, required to learn and develop discipline-appropriate content knowledge. 2. Define Content Area Literacy (CL): Content Area literacy is the ability to use reading and writing for the acquisition of new content in a given discipline.

To design effective teaching environments, it believes one needs a good understanding of what children already know when they come into the classroom. The curriculum should be designed in a way that builds on the pupil's background knowledge and is allowed to develop with them. Begin with complex problems and teach basic skills while solving these problems. The learning theories of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, and David A. Kolb serve as the foundation of the application of constructivist learning theory in the classroom. Constructivism has many varieties such as active learning, discovery learning, and knowledge building, but all versions promote a student's free exploration within a given framework or structure.

Some students were more affected by a specific learning disability than others, but it created a safe and positive learning environment for all the students to be a part of, no matter how much their learning disability impacted them. This is a start for inclusive education, although it needs to be implemented in general education classrooms as well. Inclusion is starting to be implemented in a way that literature and articles says it should be, but, more steps could be taken to implement it even further, so that it becomes nationwide. After gathering information and searching through articles, our group members have decided to make more individuals who are involved in education aware of inclusive classrooms. As well as hoping to be able to be a part of an inclusive classroom once we are all certified and

Thompson’s notion of the ‘virtual schoolbag’ is an important one for educators to know. Why? Thompson’s theory of the ‘virtual schoolbag’ provides educators with an invaluable metaphor for the unique experiences, knowledge, talents, interests, challenges and difficulties that each student brings with them to school every day. Children from some socio-cultural backgrounds naturally feel more comfortable than others in the school environment (Thompson, 2002, p.5), the ‘virtual schoolbag’ highlights this disparity and can assist educators to enact a more relevant curriculum, in an environment that feels more inclusive to everyone. Diversity must be celebrated alongside similarities in order to provide all children with truly equal opportunities

According to Duffy (2004) it is important for the mentor to facilitate learning needs and assessment by giving the student the opportunity to reflect on their learning needs and assess themselves. It is also arguable that it is important for a student to identify their own learning needs and self-assessment but the mentor needs to adhere to assessment process in order to provide fair and accurate assessment (Walsh 2014). The most important role of a mentor is to assess the progress of a student accurately and identify the learning needs and problems which the student is encountering on a placement at an early stage. (Philips et al 2000). To assess accurately and holistically a mentor should be able to assess the student’s competency through measurable assessment tools and to do assessment process accurately (Embo et al 2015).

There are different strategies that can be used by the teachers for effective class management among which the most significant is clearly setting out the format of lessons. This is done with the help of setting objectives and aims, giving regular positive feedback, reviewing the learning outcomes and giving an in depth summary and final exercise to the students. While on the other hand, the teacher can also make use of rubrics for understanding the abilities of students. The teachers can also make use of self-reflection as the strategy for class management because it helps the students in analysing their own learning and development abilities. With the help of this strategy, the teacher would be able to determine the pros and cons of each

English is important to be learned in this globalization era. Learning English involves four main skills. The four skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Those skills have to be mastered by the students when they are learning English. “To teach those four skills, teachers have to use some methods that can give the chance to the students to be involved in teaching and learning process” ( Richard and Rodgers, 1998) it means that the school, the teacher and the students as well decide the success of achieving the educational aims on the school level.

We ensure that our teachers are organized with the content needed to provide a cohesive learning environment. Our school always provides an option for students to receive individualized direct instruction in reading, math or language arts for those that need a more personal learning experience. - Technology-based learning. Ronald Reagan Middle School integrates today’s technology into our classroom curriculum. Students have a top of the line technology lab, equipped with IPad and other technology based products that students with disabilities can utilize.