Lesson 7: Learning Reflection

• A reflection of your process to learn it, and what you would change to learn more/better,
• This week I was definitely doing a lot of research to prepare for our presentation and I believe that helped me to learn more. What I would change to do better would probably be to present the information and then do the activities because I think people would have preferred it that way. I just felt that as far as the activities went it would be useful fir them to think through the information given and then decide before receiving more information.
• What experience or resource helped you learn the most,
• Something I really enjoyed was preparing to present on "Other Health Impairments" this definitely caused me to be researching and doing in depth learning all week. 
• How well prepared are you for applying what you learned in the future,
• I definitely feel that with the activities of the week, and researching and doing my presentation that I am more knowledgeable and able to help recognize the needs of children, and to know how to help.
• How well did your peers learn and what did you do to help them learn more.
• I think that I did my very best to make the presentation interesting so that my peers could learn. What I did to help them was I prepared so that they could have good information.

Lesson 6 Learning Reflection

Write a blog entry .... An overview of what you learned,

• A reflection of your process to learn it, and what you would change to learn more/better,

This week the process I did to learn the material was first I focused on main topics and subtopics and then I read the extra information in depth. I liked this method but next time I would read in depth in the beginning to connect certain concepts right away.

• What experience or resource helped you learn the most,

I really liked the ADHD presentation with the simulations they used. It made me realize how hard it is for most people to focus when there are many things distracting us.

• How well prepared are you for applying what you learned in the future,

I think I am more prepared now to help make accommodations and modifications in my classrooms based on a child's needs.

• How well did your peers learn and what did you do to help them learn more.

My peers seemed to really like the lessons taught in class and I contributes by doing my part to really dive into the lesson so I could share my insights.

Stephanie Nielson: Nienie's life

Stephanie Nielson is a powerful individual.
First of all I wanted to say how much I loved her dreams and hopes of becoming a mom. I think this was such a wonderful aspiration for her and showed everyone truly how important it is. I loved that she focused on how being a mom brought such joy to her along with being a wife. I thought this was a good background explanation of her life to show the priorities in her life were the Lord and her family. Her tragic experience really was horrific and so sad. It really was moving thinking how she could be living her life in bliss making many happy memories and preparing for another baby while taking care of her kids and then the next second nearly die. It really put into perspective firstly how fragile life was but also how much the Lord is watching out for us. It was incredible how she said that right when she gave up hope (in the plane crash) was when she felt the Lord was taking care of it. It really firstly shows that the Lord is always there for us especially in our hardest times and is willing to help. The next thing is that her ordeal was so difficult, painful and trying on her family yet her relatives told the doctors and nurses that "divorce would not be an option". That even though similar situations of intense difficulty can tear families apart that it would not tear hers apart, and that it didn't. It made me marvel at the Lord's hand in this as well as how incredible that her husband remained faithful even when others may not have. That ultimately they relied on the Lord and the nearly fatal and beyond tragic event could have destroyed them but they chose not to let that happen. I definitely admire and am moved by her faith and her family sticking together.
This definitely relates to our class because many times people have disabilities but the family can pull together and overcome it. Also that the difficulty or disability doesn't need to define your family and that you can remain faithful. It really made me want to make sure that if my family does experience having an accident that leaves one of us disabled or if one of our children does have a disability that we will turn to the Lord and continue to love them regardless and be there for them always.

https://video.byui.edu/media/Stephanie+Nielson+%E2%80%9CHope,+Triumph,+and+Everyday+Joy%E2%80%9D/0_fjnzs1lt/31369652

Learning this week

• A reflection of your process to learn it, and what you would change to learn more/better,
• This week the way I was trying to be most effective in what I learned was that I made sure to do my part in really reading and pondering the case study as well as my own specific part. To make my experience even better I should have looked up examples of how parents dealt with similar situations in a MDT IEP meeting.
• What experience or resource helped you learn the most,
• I loved the experience we had with the group teaching and how they had us do different simulations. I think the simulations helped me really understand the difficulties children may go through in struggling to learn with a learning disability.
• How well prepared are you for applying what you learned in the future,
• I felt a lot more prepared by practicing a IEP meeting as a parent because it helped me know how I should act in similar situations in the future if the need occurred.
• How well did your peers learn and what did you do to help them learn more.
• I did my part to contribute to the group's learning by actively being involved in activities. They really benefited from the IEP MDT meeting as well as the simulations and seemed to enjoy them

Lesson four learning reflection

• Wonderful learning experience while visiting those with disabilities.

This week I felt like I really progressed in my learning because I took careful notes of the different court cases involved and I sat down and studied them. Then when we did the activities in class about court cases I was ready and prepared. This helped my learning tremendously. I need to get better at writing everything down in my notes in a way that makes it easier to study.

I truly loved the experience that I had visiting the people that had disabilities. It was an amazing experience because I was very impressed with many things in that facility. I first was very impressed that the workers knew who everyone was and showed genuine love. There was a lady there that knew everyone on an intimate basis because she would joke with them and hug them. I loved this because I really felt that the individuals there felt of her love. I also loved how the workers really encouraged the individuals to become independent. They were learning useful skills. It was such an amazing phenomenon to me.

I think I am pretty prepared to apply certain things in the future such as treating others with kindness and understanding. I also think the simulations helped with this because it made me see how truly difficult it would be to live with an impairment. 

My group all had amazing experiences with the service project. They were all nervous beforehand because they didn't know what to expect. But they all loved it. I think this was one of the best ways they could have possibly learned because it was through experience. I helped my group learn by trying to share my knowledge of court cases during the group activity.

Stuttering

It is really interesting with my stuttering experience how it automatically made me nervous. I would try to say something but it took so long for me to say it I was worried that the worker would get impatient with me. It was interesting later when he brought me to the item I was trying to buy I was stuttering to say that I thought it was the right thing but he was kind of ready to go. It really made me realize how when people stutter it makes us nervous. I think its because we don't want them to know we noticed, and we are worried that they will feel embarrassed. It really was an interesting experience. Partly also because I think naturally on my own I sometimes stutter ever so slightly but sometimes it still makes me self conscious. For example if I am saying something in class but don't say it perfectly. This can also happen with reading out loud, especially if I am nervous about it. Almost to the level where it seems that I have problems with fluency. But I think this is natural in some cases. I think many people may have moments where they stutter, its sad for the people who always stutter though.

Visual Impairment

Doing the Vision impairment simulation was definitely a lot more difficult than I thought, it made me really grateful for the vision that I do have
Some of the surprising difficulties were
-I already had bad vision so it was tricky with the masks because through the small part I could see it wasn't clear.
-It was hard to drink water because you could only see through a small hole and if you were looking at the water it would be too far from your mouth. So you couldn't see that water when you drank it. Which made me just have to use trial and error to find where it was at.
-It is interesting that sounds started to seem a little bit louder and overwhelming with a lot of things happening that I was not aware of.
-I couldn't do homework because my eyesight wasn't good enough without my glasses
-Also it kept seeming like there was someone standing next to me when they weren't
-I could never find my mouse, I would move it around for 20 seconds trying to see it, but that made it too quick for my vision to pick up
-It made me nervous when people stood near me, because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus on what they were saying.
-I started typing and doing my homework and then saw that I wasn't even on the correct page
-I went to the office and tried talking to the people next to me but couldn't tell if they were looking at me or listening so I kind of just had to point to the sign up sheet and check for myself
my vision is already not so good so it was really tough to read the numbers
So over all I learned a lot about different visual impairments and it made me want to research them more to see what could help people. Also it made me realize how much it really did make simple tasks difficult.

Having such a hard time seeing and feeling lost and helpless to do things such as my own homework made me realize how some people really must struggle on a daily basis to be able to even see. It made me firstly very grateful for my vision but it also made me want to help those with vision that wasn't good. One of the ways it made me want to help others would be to make sure that if someone in my class did have a hard time seeing that I would print them out parts of the lesson in very large font, or assign a child next to them to read what is on the board. It made me realize that sometimes even if a child is at the front of the room it still may not be sufficient to help them. It made me want to help in any way possible to make modifications that they asked for, or that their parents needed. Because I realized it truly is impossible to do home work or focus on what is written on the board when you can not even see it. I definitely want to help others feel accepted and accommodated.

Lesson 3 learning reflection- 13 categories of eligibility under IDEA

• A reflection of your process to learn it, and what you would change to learn more/better,

I really liked when we had the activity where we practiced picking what the 13 categories of eligibility were under IDEA. I learn really well through visual representations and through trial and error so it helped me a lot to be able to really focus and try to decide what would be in the category. I would've liked to write down all the choices and practice the activity at home.

• What experience or resource helped you learn the most,

The experience that helped me learn the most was when I had to do the matching of the 13 categories as well as the High and Low incidences. Something else that really helped me learn was doing the simulation for the learning disability. It made me realize that it really would be so difficult for an individual.

• How well prepared are you for applying what you learned in the future,

I think I could have been more prepared for learning the material by memorizing what was covered by the IDEA as well as the categories. I think that as far as applying what I learned in the future I think I understand the general idea behind the "due process" but would want to study more on the specifics.

• How well did your peers learn and what did you do to help them learn more.

It seemed that my peers did very well in learning the material. We worked as a group and when there was a category that I felt fell under the IDEA I made sure to explain my reasoning to the group.