...As an educator for the past 17 years, I have worked with many students with diverse learning needs and those from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. During this time, I have observed that many students in the United States are growing up in poverty, and are exposed to violence, adversity, and disruption. Unfortunately, these experiences don’t stop at the door of the school, but they are demonstrated in classrooms nationwide in the form of stress, which has serious effects on the development of the brain. This type of strain causes children to be zoned out, inattentive, spontaneous, unable to concentrate, uneasy and nervous. It also affects their capacity to interact with others, to remain focused, to handle difficult academic material,...
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...N. Lodge St. Thomas University Abstract Teaching children with learning disabilities requires extensive knowledge in terminology and multiple frameworks of classroom instruction and management. When implementing different frameworks, it is imperative to understand the role of each concept and how it can be used successfully to support students with learning disabilities. Differentiated Instruction can be provided through Response to Intervention (RTI), the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and Technology in the Classroom, which are all well-known frameworks or strategies when discussing the teaching of students with disabilities. This paper will discuss each framework and its use within the classroom. Terminology Research Project Teaching students with learning disabilities presents difficulties for teachers utilizing traditional teaching strategies. “As every veteran teacher realizes, students with learning disabilities and other learning disorders may be less engaged in the learning task, unable to cope with multiple instructions, and poorly organized in their thinking and work habits when compared with students without disabilities.” (Bender, 2012, p.1) With this in mind, experts in the field have, over the course of time, developed several frameworks to support students with learning disabilities in the classroom. These frameworks of differentiated instruction, The Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Response to Intervention (RTI), and the use of technology...
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...The unit also provided two key factors when discussing technology in an educational setting: the choosing of the tool, completed by the SETT framework; and the universal design component of tools. The SETT framework reminds us the assistive technology devices must be selected with the focus being placed on the student it will assist, the environment (educational setting) the student is currently in, the tasks the student must perform in this environment (curricular based), and then tools can be considered. The universal design concept relates to the design if products and environments that can be used by all people, allowing students with disabilities a change to have increased independent and inclusion. An example would be captioning for television; it can be widely used by a number of people for various reasons, including those with disabilities....
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...Curriculum Design To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/ese-633-ash/ese-633-week-2-assignment-developing-curriculum-design In this assignment you will demonstrate your understanding of the following learning objective: • Identify the various roles of team members in providing academic support in an inclusive environment. The assignment represents your mastery of the Course Learning Outcome 4. Murawski and Spencer (2011) define inclusion as “an academic setting that provides support and service in the general education classroom so that students with a disability have equitable access to the same curriculum as their peers” (p. 19). Inclusion can consist of one class period up to a full day (i.e., “full inclusion”). Regardless of the time spent within the general education classroom, the overarching theme of inclusive education is collaboration between the general educator, the special educator, service providers, and paraprofessionals/instructional assistants to provide meaningful and engaging curriculum for all students. Strategies for creating materials and providing instructional delivery vary depending on your role in the collaborative education team. One method for developing and teaching lessons is through Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is used “to reduce barriers, as well as optimize levels of challenge and support, to meet the needs of all learners from the start” (National Center on Universal Design for Learning, 2012...
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...because of duplicate positions and job responsibilities. Each health care facility contributed their own area experts in all fields and to align the staff with the budget allocations, staffing was reduced tremendously. There have been changes in the organizational structure, changes and enhancements in processes and production, and changes in the quantity of staff members. The newly structured administration sees a need for a redesign of patient care delivery because of all the changes and enhancements implemented. A suggestion was made to use the universal worker concept. Consider the words universal worker in a health care facility. This could mean that one person is capable of doing all task in every position and department. Can you say “burn out”? Burn out of employees could be one reason why the universal worker model often failed in other organizations. This paper will address an effective method of job redesign, why universal workers will not be effective, and what other work processes and performances must be considered when electing to redesign patient care delivery. In order to effectively redesign patient care delivery, administration must analyze the effect this redesign will have on other areas and departments in Open Health Care...
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...Change and Culture Case Study II HCS/514 July 29, 2013 Brian Eigelbach Change and Culture Case Study II The increasing demand for improving patient care delivery and reducing costs in an intensely competitive industry forces organizations consider various strategies relating to restructuring. Restructuring strategies include mergers and acquisitions, staff downsizing and redefining the scope of duties and responsibilities of the employee role within the organization. When companies decide to merge sometimes radical decisions are made regarding the vision and mission of the new organization. At the start of the merger the main focus is the blending of the organization and the cultures within the organization. Managers face many obstacles during the blending process. Some of the challenges include lack of planning, staff resistance to change and failure to constantly reevaluate the changes made. It is very important during the blending of the two organizations management continue to monitor the change and determine if the process needs further adjustment in order for the new organization to meet the revised mission and goals. It is during this evaluation period that management may determine that further change is necessary and sometimes that change requires drastic staff downsizing and revised responsibilities of staff. This paper will re-examine the fictional organization from Case Study I six months after the merger of two competing healthcare organizations...
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..."The goal of Universal Design of Instruction (UDI) is to maximize the learning of students with a wide range of characteristics by applying UD principles to all aspects of instruction (e.g., delivery methods, physical spaces, information resources, technology, personal interactions, assessments). (Burgstahler, 2015). One of the several approaches outlined by The Center for Universal Design in Education (CUDE) is interaction. Regular and effective interactions between students and the instructor makes all participants feel they are valued and have meaningful input to contribute. For example, group work allows learners to support each other and "places a high value on different skills and roles" (Burgstahler, 2015). This is especially beneficial to students with disabilities because it gives them a chance to be inclusive with regular education student. CUDE also states that the classroom environment needs to be equipped and arranged in such a way that it is accessible and safe for all students. This includes the addition of assistive technology which can be a vital asset for students who are blind or deaf due to features that provide text to speech output and closed captioning. This same technology can provide invaluable assistance to the teacher because it "...can help the teacher do his or her job more effectively by extending his or her reach to more students more of the time." (Hall, Cohen, Vue & Ganley, 2015). CUDE also suggests that feedback and assessment be provided...
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...Active Learning Strategies 1. Active Learning Strategy: One-Minute Paper Description of Strategy: The active learning strategy of one-minute question or one-minute paper, as described by Faust and Paulson (1998), requires the instructor to briefly pause their lecture, and pose a question to their class. This question should test the most important concept covered during that lecture session, and it can be presented in the midst of the lecture or near the end of the class period. This active learning strategy permits the instructor to determine the effectiveness of their lectures, and, perhaps more importantly, it allows the students an opportunity to retrieve the newly learned information. This form of retrieval practice has been experimentally demonstrated to be one of the most powerful learning techniques (Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan, & Willingham, 2013; Karpicke & Blunt, 2011). ...
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...Chapter 7 Design an Inclusive school and classroom was a great chapter because it focused on the design of the classroom and the classroom learning environment. Throughout this chapter, a welcoming environment is highly mentioned. When creating a welcoming environment it is important to think about universal design which could be defined as the way the classroom is set up to meet all the student’s needs. For example, if a teacher has students who have a wheelchair it is important for the teacher to set up the classroom to meet that student and the other student’s needs. Healthy Learning environments are another important aspect chapter 7 mentioned. The text stated “If we see our classroom as a place of control, the environment will be structured to control” (220). I...
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...give up on his or her students. This would be wrong. Yes, teaching is difficult, but you have to understand that you are not always going to be perfect. Once you build a connection with you students, you will be able to work with them effectively, and they will be like your family. Another thing I learned is that inclusion is important for both students in the general education classroom, as well as students in special education. In regards to students with autism, it is proven to be beneficial. Using a universal design for learning will help all the students in the classroom. Also, differentiated learning styles are extremely beneficial as well. I think that it is important for students to have various methods of learning so teachers as well as students can understand what works best. Overall, I think that when I become a teacher I will be able to apply these teaching methods in my classroom. Whether or not the child is autistic or not, using a universal design of learning, differentiation, and being passionate about teaching will be useful in all classroom setttings....
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...Address: The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, UK. e-mail address: adams@churchillians.net In summary, this work demonstrates the feasibility and acceptability of creating audio-only games plus new findings about the importance of the level of cognitive load, the nature of the learning curve, the different design methodologies and the different types of players for an understanding of the psychology of the player of the audio-only computer game. MOTIVATION FOR THIS RESEARCH Audio-only computer games are the primary focus of the present work. They are important for both practical and theoretical reasons. Computer games now form one of the biggest categories of software application in the world. Yet few of them are accessible for those players for whom visual displays are not appropriate, due to circumstances or visual disabilities. Equally, audio-only games provide an environment in which to investigate the psychology of the users of such games. We have deployed both existing games and those designed in collaboration with potential users, noting greater satisfaction with the latter. The objectives of this research were to investigate the psychology of the sound only game by exploring (a) the shape of learning curve and (b) the degree of cognitive overload on users when playing audio-only games. To do so, we have used simple experimental methods. We also explored what makes a truly enjoyable game by measuring our game players' performance and feedback individually. To date,...
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...Play is “a medium for change and a means to foster and enhance language, cognitive, social, and emotional development” (Ivory and McCollum, 1999, p.238). Undertaking the literature review on play made me realize how important and underused play is when working towards improving developmental domains for children with exceptionalities and when promoting learning. The first main finding that stood out to me was that children with exceptionalities display delays in play development (Lifter, Mason and Barton, 2011; Messier, Ferland and Mainimer, 2007; Bray and Cooper, 2007; Hine and Wolery, 2006; and Pierce-Jordan and Lifter, 2005). This is useful information if we want to foster meaningful interactions between children with and without exceptionalities in the inclusive classroom. If some children are using more complex play skills, children with exceptionalities may not be able to keep up if they are unable to play at the same level. This could result in a decrease in the amount of social interaction that takes place between children and to some extent exceptional children may become alienated within the classroom. Exceptional children who are physically present in the classroom but do not belong (their presence isn’t valued) are known as squatters (Kliewer, 1998). In an inclusive classroom all students should be full citizens; Rapp and Arndt (2012) discuss the importance of this. Kliewer (1998) outlines four principles of citizenship: believing in one’s own ability to think...
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...“Our museum is accessible: we have ADA compliant restrooms.” “It’s too expensive to make the museum accessible to such a small minority.” “There is nothing for a blind person in an art museum.” (McGinnis 138) These are the unfortunate views of some museum professionals regarding Universal Design. Universal Design is an important concept that moves beyond ADA regulations to emphasize ethics and values in attitudes, behaviors, and institutional structures. ADA compliancy is not enough, especially in one area of a building. Universal Design does not have to be expensive; some fixes are simple and easy. Additionally, an art museum can offer a blind person an equally rewarding experience that someone without a visual impairment may have; it just takes a little Universal Design. A lot of what the Americans with Disabilities Act accomplished is now taken for granted as the standard and it is forgotten that the world was, not that long ago, a very different place. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), passed on July 26, 1990, guaranteed equal rights, treatment, and protections to all persons living with disabilities within the United States (Americans 5). This was not the first law to afford protections to those with disabilities; however, it is undeniably the most comprehensive formulation of the rights of individuals with disabilities in the history of the United States. More than fifty million Americans have some kind of physical, sensory, cognitive, or mental disability...
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...administration initiated a significant reduction in force. Organizations are making the tough decision about workforce size and structure because of unstable economic times. Reduction in workforce is a way for the organization to cut costs with employee salaries and benefits. There was a decision made to redesign patient care delivery and the first recommendation was that of a universal worker who would deliver many support services. The manager is faced with the challenge of making the redesign work knowing this model often failed with implemented in other organizations. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of job redesign and what work processes and performance expectations must be considered once the design is completed. Discussed is the article by Peter Senge and what steps and structures are put in place to make the organization a true learning organization, encouraging workers and managers to adapt and excel despite of the changes. Described is the plan and control the intra-organizational and inter-organizational communications that must occur to implement the job design changes. Management also must ensure individual job satisfaction. Process of Job Redesign Job redesign is the method used to improve the organizations performance. The job redesign focuses on the enhancement of services with a holistic approach. Job descriptions have an increase number of skills added and reduce employees required to fulfill the tasks. Denos Health...
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... However, since there has been a significant reduction in the workforce a new design for patient care delivery is needed. A redesign of the universal worker may be an option for Park Central. Other options need to be examined in hopes that a new delivery system of health care can be provided for the growing community. Quality care and team-work will be the cornerstone of Park Central. The universal worker is a person who is cross trained in many job departments and can provide coverage to another area in the hospital to alleviate staffing shortages. Universal workers in an assisted care facility are certified nursing assistants who provide personal care and services, and also facilitate other needs of the client (Jenkins, 2008, p. 4). Beginning The Process of Job Redesign As the nation’s largest group of health professionals, nurse’s roles are constantly evolving. They play an important role in the delivery of quality and cost effective health care. Since we have nursing shortages, traditional systems of health care delivery cannot be sustained. Reports have highlighted the underutilization of health care professionals (Fyke,2001;Mazankowski,2001; Gieni; ACHHR,2002). As a result of focusing on nurses working to their full potential, efficiency will be optimized and retention of nurses strengthened.(Advisory Committee on Health Human Resources[ACHHR] 2002, p. 6) Restructuring the design of work offers opportunities to open scopes of practice fully, minimize role ambiguity...
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