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Children and Learning Disabilities What Parents Need to Know
Learning disability. The two words may bring back memories of fellow students being taken out of your classroom and sent to a special room for a few hours a day or a week. Those words have become a negative label, a stigmatism, for many people. But what is a learning disability and why do some people have them and others don’t? And what does it mean if you or your child is diagnosed with a learning disability?
Learning disabilities have been legally described in educational by-laws and under the Americans with Disabilities Act as “a significant gap between a person’s intelligence and the skills a person has achieved at each age.” The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) define a learning disability or LD as “a disorder that affects people’s ability to either interpret what they see and hear or to link information from different parts of the brain. These limitations can show up in many ways—as specific difficulties with spoken and written language, coordination, self-control, or attention. Such difficulties extend to schoolwork and can impede learning to read or write, or to do math.”
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Reasons For Home Schooling Your Child
As public schools continue to struggle with issues of out of control behaviors in overcrowded classrooms, more and more concerned parents are considering what it takes for home schooling to be successful so they can decide if it is the best route for their families.
Curriculum is one of the first topics that comes to mind when the topic of homeschooling is discussed. The good news on that subject is that there are ample resources for homeschooling books, course manuals, and lesson plans available from bookstores and from online home schooling specialty companies that publish systematic, thematic and comprehensive curricula on many topics.
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Teaching Studies
At this point in my teaching practice I feel that I am ready to discuss matters relating to effective delivery of lessons. I have worked particularly closely at this aspect of teaching and will bring to light my very own thoughts, experiences and future goals that I have managed to set myself. The most important of all these is the fact that I feel that changes can be made in terms of becoming a better teacher or at least I understand that there is a need for evaluating oneself and learning from the evaluation lessons which cannot be learned through theory alone.
The very first lesson I learned in becoming an effective teacher is that children learn better when they are interested, motivated and can clearly see what the teacher is presenting to them. This is also stressed in the 2004 Qualifying to teach handbook. The standards S3.3.3 also stresses the importance of promoting active and independent learning and that children should take some responsibility to manage their own learning.
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Using Online Distance Learning For Your Summer School
Setting up a traditional high school course schedule can be difficult. Many students struggle to create schedules that include all of the courses they are required to take to meet state and local requirements, and still have time in the day to take courses they might actually be interested in taking! Many times, students try to sign up for courses at their traditional high school only to be told that they have been shut out of the class because there are too many students, or that a class is no longer offered for any number or reasons.
Many students find that a distance learning school can provide classes for them that their traditional schools don’t or won’t offer. Students can take required classes from an accredited distance learning school during the summer and receive credit for the class from their traditional high school. Students can also take elective classes from a distance learning high school during the summer and receive credit for those as well.
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