Reading Reflection

The read-aloud was a much different experience than what I was expecting and it did not go as smoothly as I anticipated. One issue of the read-aloud was that my student was very withdrawn during the entire read-aloud because he didn’t recognize me. So whenever I asked him questions about the book he only answered by shaking his head yes or no. Moreover, he had a flat affect and this caused difficulty whenever I was gauging whether or not he was enjoying the book. While I don’t think the student enjoyed the book as much as I thought he would, he did try to peek at the next page during an exciting part. I think that I would have had better outcomes if I changed the book and increased the amount of rapport between me and the student.

I feel strongly and I am convince that the fact that I had a headache and blocked sinuses affected my learning during the course time.

Differentiated instruction is a flexible and individual approach to instruction. It’s the way in which a teacher satisfies the needs of students within the classroom. Not all students in a classroom learn a subject in the same way or share the same level of ability. There are low achievers and gifted students that the teacher should be aware of, and make sure to help with all the different needs from both groups of students. Differentiated instruction is necessary to the success of students who have special needs. In order to address a variety of learning abilities and learning styles in the classroom, Miss. Al-Haiki uses many ways to help her students, for example, a workshop approach, which helps students with math, reading, and writing.

Intern met with resident K. Brown for the purpose of addressing her personal concerns and speaking with her about her community service hours. Kiara informed me that she completed her community service hours for the previous week. Intern asked her to verify the days she completes CS hours, and she stated Sundays and Wednesdays. Resident did express her frustrations by saying that she used to mess up with her CS hours, but she is really trying to do better. Intern advised her that another resident completes hers during that time, so she will have to do CS hours on Mondays and Thursdays or Mondays and Fridays. Intern also explained to her the importance of doing CS hours. It was explained that not only is this a requirement of the program,

Reading your post, I went over to the function you mentioned, recently used. While doing so was thinking interesting; now I have more to play with, I did not even know I recently used some of these, nor where or when. I’m not sure I’ll ever fully know what all Excel and I are capable of especially when it gets to all the bells and whistles, but I am going to come very, very close.

I sat in my fourth grade classroom staring at the bookshelf when suddenly I caught a glimpse of a dark blue book with a heroic being on the front. I lifted the heavy book and began reading Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief. As soon as I started I fell into this mythical world where gods, monsters, and heroes all existed. It was a rollercoaster through my emotions. The thrill. The suspense. The surprising new book had a grasp on me, to stop reading it would be difficult. I felt attached. As soon as I started, I finished. Devastated, my chase of this feeling has never stopped, no other book has given me the same fulfillment as Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief. As a young reader I would love to find the same joy and thrill (as I did back

Special education teachers demonstrate the ability to influence learners with intellectual disabilities through the process of differentiating instructions (Kluth, 2013). During this process, special education teachers implement an altered approach for teaching the curriculum (Brownell et al., 2012). Tailoring the curriculum to students' needs, interests, and strengths provides a flexible approach to good teaching (Dixon et al., 2013). Incorporating technology such as the iPad in the curriculum of students with intellectual disabilities allows educators to differentiate and individualize learning (An & Reigeluth, 2011). Research by An & Reigeluth (2011) also asserted that integrating iPads as an instructional tool in the curriculum of students with intellectual disabilities provides special education teachers the prospective to develop innovative and adapting programs, which will ameliorate

The Writing II course has been my most interesting and rewarding class. Even though I could not complete the class, the course is not over for me. Before taking the class, I acknowledge I have much room to grow in writing, but I did not know where to start. Writing has always been unclear to me in many areas, and this class helped me to unblemished my understanding. In this class, I have acknowledged my weakest areas in writing, but my most astonished ambiguity was determiner noun and vocabulary. I did not know I was using determiner incorrectly and vocabulary span is so important in academic writing. The English Simplied book is an easy and an excellent learning tool that was used in this course. It covers all areas in determiners.

Equal education should be available to all children without any exclusion or segregation based on mental or physical disability (Woolfolk, A.E., Winne, P.H., & Perry, N.E, 2010). Teaching should, therefore, be adjusted to meet each student’s learning styles and needs as much as possible as each child is unique in the way that they learn. A teacher should get to know a child’s personality as well as their strengths, skills and weaknesses and use information from previous teachers and parents, as well, in order to get a better understanding of how that child learns best. Teachers must, therefore, always be prepared to encounter students’ different abilities and learning styles. Thus, instructors must set different expectations and goals for each student according to their abilities and modify the curriculum if needed. Additionally, educational resources should always be accessible to students in order for them to excel to their full capacity and to teachers in order to help them achieve this success.

The researcher believes that all individuals are able to learn to read. Granted, because of the range of disabilities affecting people, this will look different for all individuals. In choosing a topic, the researcher decided to examine the idea of differentiation by looking at it through the lens of special education. All learners come to school at different levels, therefore differentiation of content, process, and/or product is needed to allow all students access to the information being taught.

From taking Critical Thinking and Reading, I have learned more from this class in fifteen weeks than I ever have in the past thirteen years. I’ve read articles and novels that have broadened my horizon about how things are different than what someone may be used to. I learned how life experiences can shape your future and the choices you make. Not only did I learn things through the books and articles we have read, but also from my professor and his own life experiences that he was brave enough to share with the class. I have never had a teacher who wanted to share knowledge as much as O’Hara does, and for that I am extremely grateful that I was able to learn so much from someone who cares so much about his job and his students.

Writing has always been something I dread. It’s weird because I love talking and telling stories, but the moment I have to write it all down on paper, I become frantic. It’s almost as if a horse race just begun in my mind, with hundreds of horses, or words, running through my mind, unable to place them in chronological order. Because I struggle to form satisfying sentence structure, it takes me hours, sometimes even days, to write one paper. It’s not that I think I’m a “bad writer,” I just get discouraged easily. Needless to say, I don’t think highly of my writing skills. When I was little I loved to both read and write. I read just about any book I could get my hands on, and my journal was my go to for my daily adventures. Although it’s

In 2017, it seems engagement in controversial discourse is the ultimate taboo. In fear of offending others, youth avoid discussions of religion, political opinions, and economic problems altogether. Or, in contrast, discussions of these topics turn hostile and have to be extinguished in the classroom. The result of this problem is that many young people do not know what they truly think about controversial topics, and a generation of apathetic thinkers that never go beyond the mainstream media for their opinions is produced. A society without individual core beliefs and values cannot function as a democratic republic.

Over the course of this semester this class has allowed me to grow in many ways and helped me to reach my full potential. Throughout this class, I have had to write four separate essays which have all taught me something different. The first essay was about the theme of impotence in the summer reading novels, which has taught me about that struggles of daily life after World War I and World War II. Similarly, the second essay was about a memoir that taught me that even though life may have many uncontrollable struggles, you don’t have to let those struggles hold you back your entire life. The third essay I wrote was about the reflection of social issues in music. When writing this essay I had learned about the social issues in the 1960’s and 1990’s and how they compare to the today’s social concerns. Lastly, the essay about education had brought my attention towards the unseen issues taking place in higher education. Along with learning about the topics I had written about, I have also learned many skills and grammar rules that have improved my writing such as writing in an active voice, pronoun-antecedent agreement, and first references.

Today, I answered yes/no to as many questions as I could during a twelve-hour period. I often work ten hours so most of my day was spent at the correctional facility where I work. In my responses to my wife the yes/no answers worked fine. My wife often does not ask for additional information and she accepts the fact that my personality is often brutally honest. She knows I am going to say what I think and has come to accept the fact that if she does not want my true opinion she should not ask if I like her new haircut. However, if she does not bring it to my attention I am most likely not going to even notice it. She did ask if I wanted some cash to take to work and I was able to respond with a “No thanks” and was not expected to say anything more. Once I got to work I struggled with just giving yes/no answers. I am not sure if it was because of where I work and my position or simply me. Most of the time at work, I am inundated with questions that can be responded to with yes/no such as are we having classifications tomorrow, can an inmate’s family be approved for visitation, can you sign these paper, can you look at the cameras at this incident, do we need to shake down the barracks, are we transferring this inmate to another facility, etc. Today I found myself frustrated when I made myself give a simple yes/no answer and my staff appeared frustrated as well. I even witnessed frustration with some of the inmates when they were simply told no to their requests. It