Day+10

__** Day 10 - Individual Differences **__
=== It was great watching the video How difficult can this be, by Rick Lavoie. I have watched half this video, but this time around, just like everything else in my 5th year, this movie has been so inspiration. I was able to relate it with my last practicum. Often as a teacher, we do not notice our effects of teaching on the students. Using mature adults as students, which is often the case in universities, has helped the older generation, such as parents understand what goes through their child's mind. It is important to relate with these children, or else nothing can be done. No matter what class you are teaching, you can not make assumptions about the students- each one is different and unique. I took some intense notes during the video and just wanted to share them with the rest of the class. ===


 * Notes on the story of individual Differences **
 * Definition of exclusive
 * Child that remains is a learning disabled child (not disturbed, retarded, mentally challenged)
 * Simulation activity
 * Deal with problem ownership
 * Teacher acts like "students are lazy and dumb"
 * Using sarcasm with kids creates a victim
 * Teacher is drilling
 * Anxiety affects performance - "famous story with a cat"
 * Learning disable people "quit" when in anxiety
 * Learning disabled children have twice the processing to do
 * Distractible (pays attention to everything) vs. attention span
 * Learning disabled people do not like surprises
 * Teacher gave no reinforcement, no rewards when students answered. But when they answered wrong, he had plenty to say --> so they neverrrrr volunteer
 * When students don't understand something …. We are "blaming the victim" … the child is not motivated
 * The distorted picture has to do with perception.
 * An LD child needs a teacher
 * Reading Comprehension: has to do with background (a mathematical paragraph). We can not assume that if everyone understands every word in the paragraph, that they understand passage
 * Effect of perception on behaviour: the LD child sometimes doesn't know what they did wrong.
 * Visual Motor Coordination: drawing things can be difficult for LD children
 * Dysnomia - words on the tip on our tongue. Human bring has two parts -> storage and retrieval. LD children have a problem between storage/retrieval
 * Everything we do in our life is either associative (2 or more = driving and talking) or cognitive (1 at a time)
 * Dysnomia in children is a cognitive experience (to speak)
 * English language is cognitive for LD children
 * Reading and Decoding: the orientation of a letter changes (p, b, d, q) but when we're young we're told the spatial orientation of an object doesn't change what it is.
 * Even though you decode a passage, did they even understand the content of the passage
 * Auditory learners: Some students need to hear it before they believe it. "I don't get the instructions".. "it says circle the answer" … student - "okay".
 * Fairness: we have to understand t he critical value of being fair. Fairness - "everyone who gets what he or she needs". In order to be fair, we have to treat them differently.