My Studying Attitude Survey

Ms. Foster teaches a self-contained classroom of ninth to twelfth graders. Her students have mild to moderate cognitive disabilities and one student is considered autistic although at a high functioning level. Ms. Foster’s students move to other settings throughout the day, but they receive reading and writing instruction from her. She has one child who is considered ESOL but he has been in the US since he was small and does not appear to have problems with English.

If a student has a learning disability that should be immediately addressed by perhaps sending those students for one hour to a special need class at the school or getting permission from the parent to provide him or her with tutorial on certain days, if it is necessary this show that the

B.3.a. One student with ADHD often shares his ideas, the whole class has to be aware of his need for active engagement so that he can stay focused. Another student is newer to the United States and has a harder time with reading word problems, therefore he struggles with specific words in math that don’t align with the English words he does know. A third student has a

At times, being labeled as a gifted student can be a burden for the student with that label. The Association for Middle Level Educators found, “research indicates that many gifted students deliberately fail tests or fail to do homework so that they don’t appear to be too smart” (Payne, 2013, p. 15). The need for acceptance at this point in students’ lives outdoes the will to achieve higher than their classmates. It is common in a middle school classroom to see students choosing to have friends over excelling academically (Payne, 2013).

Jasmine Keller is a fourth grade student who has been monitored and reported as a student at-risk. Jasmine has a, “weak short-term memory that affects her involvement and progress in the general education curriculum in the areas of reading decoding, reading fluency, reading comprehension, spelling, and math calculations. Her reading level is at second grade. Broken down word recognition is at an equivalent of grade 1.7, and comprehension at 1.3. She has relative strength in vocabulary. If given classroom assessments with a screen reader she is very successful. Her writing skills assessed to be uneven with only weak spelling skills, which is at a first or

Yanni is a 9th grade student who has difficulty keeping up with classmates of the same age in a developmentally appropriate learning environment. Yanni has extreme difficulty with comprehending what he reads. Since he doesn 't monitor his comprehension when he reads, he doesn 't recognize when he is "getting it" and when he is not. He works at a much slower pace than other students and requires extra time to complete certain tasks; he never forgets to do his homework and has no difficulty with planning. Yanni has a hard time remembering information - memorizing is very difficult for him. This leads to poor recall of facts, as well. Yanni prefers math to ELA. However, he continues to need encouragement in math. He often gets confused in math and cannot communicate his thinking. His basic math facts are not yet in

Karyss is a 2nd grade, who has repeated second. She will be turning 8 in August. She has an individualized education plan in place to support her writing and reading comprehension. As of April 29th, she started coming to for support with number sense, multiple step word problems and fact fluency. Her math grades have been three all quarter long. Cognitively, she has an even profile: General Conceptual Ability = 95 Average, Verbal = 96 Average, Nonverbal Reasoning = 96 Average, Spatial = 98 Average. These scores show that she has the ability perform on a grade level task. On the Second grade CASE 21, which is a county benchmark assessment she scored two at 39%.

Jayla is a first grade student attending Lake Forest Elementary Schools of the Arts and Sciences. She participates with non-disabled peers in the general education class more than 79% of the time. Jayla is a caring and loving person who is concerned about her family, little brother and others. Although she is loving and caring , she continues to struggle with interacting appropriately with her peers and adults. She curses on a regular basis, hit other students, and falsely accused others talking about her. When focus, Jayla is able to read, write , spell and work well with minimal assistance.

Discussion of One Question: How does the student’s exceptionality affect his or her learning and/or behavior? Include descriptions of strengths, interests, and talents as well as those areas that pose a challenge to the student. (K ’s) exceptionality hasn’t change, who, he is as a student or individual. He 's just like most of our student’s who is struggling to learn grade level material and being a ESL (English Second Language) student has challenged his ability to translate comprehension between the two languages. As I stated before (K) has an (IEP) to help give him strategies to comprehend core academics. (K) express confusion and he doesn’t understand why some subjects are easy for him and others are more difficult. He is a great reader and (K) can answer most single direction question about a math problem; however, if the problem is asking him to set- up a multi-digit mathematical problem. He tends to have a more difficult time setting up mathematical problem with the correct math operation.One of (K) many strengths is his ability to read with fluency. He always will to help his fellow classmates on math problems that are easy for him to solve. His academic strength lies in math, even though, he struggles with higher math functions/problems. (K) has been place in advance band by his band director, due to his dedication in playing different instruments. (K) is also an extra helper for the band teacher due to his dedication to music. He loves to play soccer, basketball,

In this paper, I will examine Disposition Four, “the educator uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.” This paper is an effort to contest the many relentless influences affecting learners today. Its focus is the necessity of a partnership of resources for students to succeed. (Schulte, 2009) stated, “Increasing academic performance, enhancing social and emotional skills and even retaining quality teachers are all related to positive school climate” (p.46) .Thus the critically importantance for educator to be skilled at creating meaningful interactions between students and practitioners as well as practitioners with students.

I have one above grade level student, two grade level students, and two below grade level students. The students I choose are the ones that are most likely to be overlook because they are to quiet and don’t have any outward behavior issues. I also chose one high level student because I wanted to see how I can provide additional resources for student who works above grade level. The lower level students have different abilities when it comes to reading and writing. One student does better in reading comprehension and the other struggles with comprehension but is better at decoding and sounding out words.

She requires maximal assistance to follow the class schedule and complete written schoolwork, but the recent addition of using a communication board had helped.

The mother explained she cannot read or write in the English Language, but her son’s older siblings can and try to help the younger sibling. The two older siblings have been very successful throughout their educational experience and have not struggled as the younger. She stated that her son as no desire to read at home, and completing homework is an everyday struggle with him. This student is in Tier 3 of the Response to Intervention (Mesmer & Mesmer, 2008) process, and has been referred for testing for special education services.

She has been paired with a peer to assist with reading directions during work time in all subjects. She also exhibits trouble organizing her time and space and sometimes does not go back and complete unfinished work during time allotted in class. She often hands in unfinished assignments and forgets to bring homework home. When asked, she says she didn’t remember that she hadn’t finished the work. She does not use the assignment list that is posted on the blackboard every day to help her get the materials needed for homework unless the teacher goes over it with her individually.

The instrument was handed out at the beginning of the College Life class period and required approximately 15 minutes to complete. I read the instructions to the students and advised them to answer as truthfully as possible. Additionally, I explained to the students that completion of the survey was voluntary and would in no way affect their grades. Upon completion, all students handed their survey back to me who then maintained possession of the