Journal 7

This week had to deal with Ch 7 which was about high-incidence disabilities. There are three categories"

• Learning disabilities
• Emotional disturbances
• Speech/language impairments

One of these includes ADHD, which I presented with a group in class. I specifically signed up for this one because my older brother has it, so i had personal experience and prior knowledge to it what would benefit teaching the lesson. Luckily he was agreeable to me talking about him, and with the information i gathered from him and my parents was so helpful. Getting life experience directly from someone and not just reading it from the book was so much better. I liked teaching with everyone, and I liked talking about my brother. I have learned for myself that children with this don't have problems with learning, but with paying attention. My brother is incredibly smart and is classified as "genius" due to his IQ level, so I know there's nothing wrong with that. As long as teachers find ways to get the children interested in paying attention and falling in love with that whey're learning, that is so amazing.

1. How do you feel about your lesson delivery and why? Was it effective, why or why not?
• I felt it went very well. We all knew what we were going to talk about and how we were going to present it.
2. What evidence do you have (while delivering your lesson) of effective student engagement?
• People were paying attention, and when we did the video and asked questions on it, they responded, and even voiced when they weren't sure about the correct answer.
3. If you were to teach this lesson by yourself, not in a group, what would you change and why?
• Instead of just talking about it and talking about someone who has it, I would like to bring someone in and talk about what it's like, that way the students can ask more questions that we wouldn't have answers for.
4. What could have been an area of improvement in your teaching?
• I don't exactly remember, but maybe asking more questions, finding out what they know, and maybe even if they've seen this in their own lives what it was like.
5. Based on the criteria for the “Teaching Experience” on our syllabus, would you give your group a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why?  AND would you give yourself a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why?
• It's hard to say, but I would think probably an 8 for the group, and maybe at least an 8 or 9 for me. I did a lot of work getting personal information and looking up additional research to as to decide what would be the best stuff to present.