Special Education and Universal Design for Learning

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Universal Design for Learning 1. List four causes for social justice Helen Keller supported during her lifetime that you were not aware of till researching this assignment. In school were you taug... ht about Keller's life-long political activism? If not, what did you learn about her? 2. Justin Dart, Jr. became an advocate for the disadvantaged after he contracted polio. Beginning in 1952 at the segregated University of Houston, and throughout his life, he fought for causes that changed society. What did you discover he accomplished in his life? In school, did you learn about Dart and his work on behalf of people? Differentiated Instruction 3. Where you are tutoring, are any of these nine adaptations being used to facilitate learning? 4. The video, Differentiated Instruction with Technology, shows the capabilities of iPad technology use to differentiate learning, changing the model of one size fits all teaching methods to many methods that enhance students’ learning experiences. Describe three different ways that you observed teachers differentiating learning using iPads. Identify the multiple intelligences that students utilize for learning in these differentiations. Refer to http://teamstutoringinschools.pbworks.com/w/page/126082433/Multiple%20Intelligences%2C%20Mindsets%20and%20Mistakes 5. The multimodal resources we put on the TEAMS' assignment pages, videos, audio pod casts, text, interactive websites and games offer viewing, reading, hearing and doing opportunities to decrease boredom, surprise you and build interest in the topics. How are these multimodal resources useful or not useful to you as a learner? Please explain. 6. How might multimodal resources facilitate an inclusion model of teaching and learning in K-12 grades of schools? Learning Disabilities 7. A growth mindset, not being afraid of making mistakes but viewing mistakes as necessary to learning, having confidence in one’s ability to learn, seeking assistance and not taking no for an answer are visible traits of Temple Grandin and Raul Oaida. In two paragraphs, one for each person, summarize how the actions of each assisted achieving their goal. 8. Chy Johnson is an example of what occurs when a group in a school includes students with special abilities in the social mainstream of school life. If you were an administrator at a school, what might you make part of the school to assist special ability students to be part of the daily social life? Partial or Full Inclusion Models 9. In classes where you tutor, do you see partial or full inclusion of students? 10. As a teacher, which of these models do you think you would prefer to utilize? 11. What human and technological resources do you want to have to help students learn in either full or partial inclusion? [Show More]

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