Jane's Strengths And Weaknesses

During lessons it may become apparent that a learner has a specific need that requires help such as financial guidance, bereavement, dyslexia, or help with maths/English skills.

In this paper I will complete a needs assessment and explain how I used the assessment to help complete my course project. By doing so, I hope to help the reader understand the process involved in developing a training strategy to address the needs that will be identified.

Outdoor areas: should have enough resources and equipment to challenge the interests of the children and have enough room to let off some steam. Outdoor areas should be free flow and open in all weathers. Motivation is great to get the kids out and in the fresh

The author provided a literature review of the popularity of use of the iPad in the classroom, among students with or without disabilities. The review found that students with disabilities had greater engagement and behavioral response rates when using iPads and teaching applications on the iPads as opposed to more traditional methods of teaching. Through this background knowledge, the author sets up her research proposal.

The story opens with now 12 year old Jane waking up on her birthday ready to finally get her ears pierced. She rushes downstairs for her favorite breakfast and is greeted by her parents who ask her to go get her older sister from her room. Jane heads to her sister's room and coaxes her downstairs to eat some breakfast, which she refuses. Finally after a while Jane’s sister, Lizzie, eats a small bit of pancake only to go for a run afterwards. After a few minutes Jane asks her mother if she can finally get her ears pierced and she is given a hollow response. Then Jane goes to get ready for her special evening with her family and friends when she hears Lizzie coughing in the bathroom and then a toilet flushing. Jane calls out to Lizzie but is told to go away and that she is as bad as their parents.

The program introduces the basics of learning how to read and gradually advances children to higher learning opportunities with scaffolding. Educators can use the application in pre-kindergarten to second grade classrooms. There is an opportunity for higher grade level students who are learning English and/or struggling overall in literacy to benefit from this program. This program is also excellent for 1st and 2nd-grade history and science lessons. For example, if an educator has a lesson on George Washington they can incorporate this application into their lesson plan. This application along with other available applications in literacy can assist in learning and understanding especially for children who have difficulty in literacy. All applications possess advantages and disadvantages in using tablets to enhance literacy learning in the classroom. According to the article “Exploring the Use of iPads” on page 22 an example, of an advantage they stated, is students can use their prior knowledge to navigator through the application without a lot of instructions from the teacher and a disadvantage is manipulation in an application, for example, changing the font size. Overall using tablets for literacy enhancement can improve a child’s learning with proper planning and use of the application in a lesson plan. For parents, it is an excellent tool, for extra learning and acts as a tutor for students to improve their literacy skills at

Needs Assessment is an area of science, theory, and methods, which is also an essential intricate element implemented in numerous contexts, integrated in multiple frameworks and models of learning, performance, and needs, to be implemented systematically, effectively, efficiently, and objectively (Altschuld & Kumar, 2010; Altschuld & Watkins, 2014; Gilbert, 1967, 1978; Rummler & Brache, 1992). Needs assessment at the most basic level is gathering information of issues or problems in order to provide a solution; Altschuld and Kumar state this as deciding the required level of performance, subtracting the actual performance, and discovering the area of need (2010). Needs assessment has been defined as the formal procedure of recognizing and defining gaps between present levels and preferred goals, prioritizing the needs founded on the costs to fulfill each need against the cost for disregarding it, and choosing the most severe issues or prospects for lessening or removal

Reactions: Throughout this episode I felt stressed for Jane. Choosing between two things that play an important role in the life of someone is extremely hard to do. She is faced with the overwhelming pressures of impressing her father or pursuing what will help her get by in life. She is constantly pressured by Rogelio more than anyone, considering he wants her to be apart of his life on television. While this is happening, Michael (Jane’s ex-fiance), is working with his partner to crack down on their “Sin Rostro” (big-time drug dealer who has not been identified) case. Michael is stuck on the notion that Rafael is Sin Rostro, but it is partly due to Michael’s hatred towards Rafael. Meanwhile, Rafael is trying his best to impress Xiomara in

As much confidence as she had, she also has weaknesses that brought down her character and her emotions were a big part of her strengths as well as her weakness. Going out of her way to find her husband that she loved dear, she was blinded by the facts of maybe the man had let her go and lost all interest in her or having searched for twenty-five years and finally finding him and he does not remember her. Liza Jane is a confident woman but she forced herself to stay in the past and not move on in her bright future after slavery. Her love for a man who possibly had forgotten about her still ran on for the twenty-five years and finally come to find him and not realize it, it was a weakness that brought down her character and also placed a weight

However, it has advantages to help some people to learn and simple to teach children what there need and give them variety of information in an enjoyable way. Weber, P. wrote in his article Is the iPad bad at children? Three kindergarten classes of Australia are participating in study of "the educational benefits of iPad use for pre-school children," says Matthew Dunn at Australia's The Standard. Specifically, they want to know when using iPad apps to create art, study creative crafts like puppetry, and read e-books can help kids prepare for school”. Furthermore, this tablet helps parents to create a child to learn before interring to school and these ways make child acceptance of education. Peter Weber claims, “Three kindergarten classes of Australia are participating in study of "the educational benefits of iPad use for pre-school children”. This way makes the child talented, loves to read stories by iPad and be an artist. Also, the tablet practical to learn children, counting the numbers and know children of the process of calculation and how they use

After many advancements in technology over the past years, the possibility of integrating the technology into the education system for the use of students has increased. Schools have started to spend more on resourceful technology such as iPads, tablets, Chromebooks, and a few other items. IPads have been proven to be far superior than most of these gadgets. iPads have been rolled out in many schools due to their weight size speed and the ability to use easily. iPads can impact the school in many positive ways. Some counter-arguments could be that they are too expensive or they can break easily. Although a few reasons why they should be used in schools are that their shape, size, weight can

How many countries are in the world, can dogs eat strawberries, what is the largest building in South America? These are all great questions that can easily be researched on an iPad. Recent studies show that as of 2016 43 percent of Americans read online books, magazines, or newspapers. The idea of tablets in the classroom is supported by teachers and students around the country. They believe that tablets would be more effective for learning purposes and improve standardized testing. In the U.S over 8 billion dollars are spent on outdated textbooks each year. Replacing textbooks with tablets will benefit students in and outside the classroom.

All across the world, children up to the age of eighteen or the twelfth grade are enrolled in some type of schooling system whether it be public, private, or home school. In these schools, the students are required to study and learn with the use of either textbooks or tablets. Many schools and administrators prefer the use of textbooks rather than tablets in classrooms, but through research and personal experience, I have found that tablets contribute to an enhanced education for students and prepare them for the future.

The student interviewed for the Needs Analysis is named Karen Estefania Romero Flores. Spanish is her first language but finds time to practice with her older brother outside of school. She expressed the joy of communicating with her peers and being able to answer the teacher's questions. Karen has a mother, father, and brother all living in the same household, yet she is not married, nor has any children of her own. She has born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and attends IMAC to learn English as a second language.

Tablets are used by most students and teachers across America. Like most new things, there are mixed feelings about the new technological device. This new technology may allow teachers to better target students’ individual academic levels and learning styles, and engage students who often are bored by the more traditional style of teaching (Banchero and Phillips). Teachers will be able to change and personalize their lesson plans even more than before. With the new tablets schools are slowly receiving, teachers are exhaling a sigh of comfort because of the less work it grants them. Teachers can watch students writing essays in real time and shoot one a note if she failed to write a proper introduction and another separate note if she used improper punctuation (Banchero and Phillips). Not all teachers are liking the idea of tablets taking