Educational psychology

The case of Cedar Rapids Community School District Vs. Garret F. (1999), is a court case concerning student IDEA and its provisions surrounding the line between related services and medical services. In this case, the student, Garret F., is a student with a physical disability. He is paralyzed from the neck down and has medical needs. He is able to function within the general education classroom, as his learning abilities remain fully intact. Able to function and perform in the general education…

For the last four years of my high school career I have sat in all of my classes quietly and patiently, listening to my instructors teach. I’d like to think of myself as a sponge that soaked up everything there was to learn. While there were a handful of classes that allowed hands-on learning, much of my time was spent listening -- absorbing. I took my tests, raised my hand when I knew an answer and established myself as a reliable, thoughtful student. I’m grateful for my years at Hudson High…

As our society, changes so must our schools, classrooms and our communities that can transform diversity in terms of culture, values, languages etc. How to prepare teachers and their students to adapt in diverse classrooms. First preparing teachers to learn more about their students and where they come from. For example, English language learners (ELL) who are in your classrooms that speak diverse languages that represent different cultures. Many of these students are from Hispanic families and…

Diversity is one of many things that I believe a college should have. In order to meet the needs of all students, a school should be diverse in many different areas. One of these areas being in the classroom. No one learns the exact same way as another student, so I believe that classrooms being diverse with the ways they teach are very important in the learning process. Another area that a college should be diverse in is the classes, activities, and clubs that they offer. Many different ideas…

Having both African American ancestry itself fails to show true understanding and respect for cultural differences, I have been recognized as having showing leadership and academic achievement even while being thrown into unfamiliar cultures. Largely my curiosity of wanting to discover other cultures was because I sought to find where I fit in. Among the invisible line of separation between certain cultural groups of people in the lunch room, I jumped around, but always found myself in the…

The IDEA mandates a sequence of steps that schools must follow to identify and educate children with disabilities. The first step is Pre-referral Intervention, which takes place before formal testing and evaluation for special education of the child. Here, a teacher or parent reports concerns with a child’s learning, behavior or development, and an intervention assistance team then works with the teacher to try to solve the problem by modifying instruction. This is sometimes called Response to…

There are many high schools today throughout the United States; some teachers are not getting the respect they need from their students during classes. They teacher in high schools are teach the subject they were given or requested. For example, the subjects are English, Math, Science, Social Studies and World Languages and Art. The teachers are teaching the subjects that they feel strongly, like or the best for them. Some students think that they can’t teach all the subjects by their self. The…

For this project I decided to turn my essay into a children's book. I choose this type of multimedia because it is something that I have the most creativity and comfort doing. I also feel like this is going to be a good way to portray my topic. It is not a serious enough subject for me to have my audiences sit down and listen to a radio broadcast, but it is not so serious where little kids can not understand it. My audience is ages five to eight years old in a classroom listening to story time.…

Upon first observation, the first grade classroom seems silent. All the students appear to be engaged in various literacy activities. While a small group of students meet with the teacher for a reading group, the remaining students work independently. The students working independently are doing Daily Five activities: Read-to-Self, Read-to-Someone, Listen to Reading, Working on Writing, or Word Work. Although the students are quiet, not all of them are doing their independent activities properly…

Setting an Example has Consequences After warning my class once, I warned them again. However, this time was with the threat of taking away their recess. We were in the library, a quiet place, and my students were being abnormally loud. I felt that I needed to make a statement. My belief was that two warnings were enough. On the third time around, their recess was taken from them. The next day, a parent called to talk to my principal about the recess situation. The parent said that her child…