Chapter 5 Learning Log

WHAT?

Through out chapter 5 I have learned a lot about Students with special needs and the correct ways to approach and react in situations. I learned the importance of keeping these differences in mind and accepting them. The IDEA stands for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which establishes a fair level playing field for all students. It gives the student's with disabilities the chance to learn and progress. There is also the IEP which stands for Individualized Education Plan, which illustrates the different instructional levels, behavioral goals lessons, and schedules of the individual. Each of these programs of helped integrate students with special needs into public schools an have given them a chance to learn and associate with their peers. There are many different perspectives on intelligent such as Cattell's Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence, Gardner's Multiple Intelligence, Sternberg's Triachic Theory, Spearman's Concept of g, and Distributed Intelligence. According to these perspectives it is thought that intelligence is a single general ability, but changes within different variables. As teachers we will come across students with under achieving progress and some with over achieving progress, and as teachers we can make suggestions but never force them to do what we think is best, it is entirely up to the parents.


SO WHAT?

As a future teacher it is important for me to understand how important it is for these students with disabilities to be integrated into schools, and have the same chance as anyone else to associate with their peers, learn and play with other children their age, and feel accepted and given a chance. I can have a big effect on how well these students do educationally and also socially. I need to know the stuff that is in chapter 5 because as a future teacher I will deal with these issues more than I think, and it is helping me get prepared for when that day comes. It has helped me have a better understanding of what is acceptable as far as getting these students help or the proper assistance they need. It has also made me see how big of a role I will have these student's educational experience. Not only can I help them academically, but socially, cognitively, behaviorally, and physically.



NOW WHAT?

I will use this information to help me become a better educator and it has helped me become more understanding of the whole process that these students go through. I will use this information to help me when I become a teacher to be able to identify problems certain students might be having, and know how to approach them in a positive and proper manner. As an educator and a person I will be accepting of people's differences and help them in any way I can to have a successful life and to achieve anything they put their mind to. I will use this information to hopefully be able to more easily identify students with a disability and be able to get them help. I will also as I'm training to be an educator try to gain as much knowledge according to this chapter as possible so I will be ready for whatever comes my way, and I will know how to handle it and accept it.