Happy Easter

In each reflective journal, respond to all the following prompts:

·         Discuss your prior beliefs about teaching students with disabilities.  How have the readings, discussions, and the assignment altered or informed your current beliefs, knowledge and skills related to planning instruction for students with disabilities?

-I believe every student is unique in their own way. Each student learns different and in their own pace. I am no one to judge anyone specially children. I believe my job is to apply what I have learned in my courses and try to use all the strategies that I have learn and will learn in this course and others to come. The reading has helped me understand terms I never had heard. I am learning what are the roles and responsibilities we all must help students learn. It is important as an educator to understand and come familiar with each student needs to gather the correct information, strategies, modifications, and accommodations for the students learning.

·         After reviewing CEC Standard 5 and its two key elements, discuss three areas you would like to improve upon professionally during this course. 

-I would like to improve how to communicate the needs of each child to the parents and special educator along with the administration

- I would like to learn how to incorporate the proper technology to accommodate each student needs.

·         Based on your experience, current role in education, and/or future role in education, how might you apply these concepts to plan effective instruction for students with disabilities?

-In my personal experience I will do everything I can to accommodate, modify the lessons for each student that will required it.  In my Lead Teacher position currently, I create the lesson plans to the children needs and interest. I do have to modify the lesson for some of the children do to their age limits. I have children from 2 ½ -5 years old. My 2 ½ children do not know how to hold a pencil, cut with scissors there for I must make adjustment for the children to learn to hold a pencil and learn to hold scissors.