Student populations are becoming more diverse. The range of diversity among current students is wide thus requiring all school personnel to become familiar with how each respective population group needs to be supported to achieve their career goals. This group is for all school personnel who aspire to discuss and master the competencies necessary for exemplary performance and top customer service in a dynamic, rapidly changing education landscape. Group members share best practices, ideas, thoughts, reflections, and resources to help colleagues across the globe improve performance.
Learning the generational gap is important to adapt students' or the cohort's learning needs.
Accommodations provides the opportunity for students with learning disabilities to be successful in the course.
Studies indicate that strengths such as visual-spatial reasoning, divergent thinking, and hands-on problem solving are common among individuals with learning disabilities, making them highly effective in real-world and career-focused environments.
Comment on Bridget Artis's post: Because these individuals frequently must find alternative ways to process information, they develop flexible thinking, innovation, and resilience.
Having basic knowledge of related disorders helps educators who are working wiyh these individuals to be able to more accurately provide support in their learning efforts.
Reasonable accommodation are those that do not fundamentally alter the nature of the course and/ or program in which the student is enrolled.
When students goes off to college with a learning disability. It is up to the student to let their college and instructor know what types of accommodations work best for them.
Research show that many individuals with learning disabilities are creative problem solvers.
The English language has about 44 sounds but has only 26 letters to represent those sounds. Also, if one or more of the steps in learning to read is not mastered, reading challenges start to multiply for students.
Culture is more inclusive to all aspects of individuals, not just skin color
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