...Twice exceptional students are the ones who presents both a disability and special gifts and talents (Hallahan, Kauffman & Pullen, 2015). Essentially, this phenomenon may occur with most types of disability, such as physical impairments, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, ADHD, emotional or behavioral disorders, autism, communication disorders, deafness and blindness (Hallahan, et al., 2015). Clearly, because they need to deal with all the idiosyncrasies of two exceptionalities, they face more challenges than the typical developed children. First, twice-exceptional students often are neglected. In fact, only 11% of children with disabilities that were considered gifted actually participate in programs for gifted or talent students (Barnard-Brak, et al., 2015). One of the reasons for this misidentification is the masking effect that disabilities and giftedness provoke to each other (Barnard-Brak, et al., 2015). Moreover, if one child attends a special education program, it is more likely...
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...Learning Disabled: Twice Exceptional Students Gifted and Learning Disabled: Twice Exceptional Students My name is Hassnain Munir and I am coordinating for gifting talented for statistics. I have been teaching and coordinating gifted talented students for about 17 years for Sin war Public Schools and then here in curly for last 7 years. During those years I have had students in classroom setting or I had gifting talented elective class and I have also I had twice exceptional students as a coordinator trying to help RGT specialists and our facilitators work with students regarding the other twice exceptional students that are in classroom. As well as I had parents groups and parents of twice exceptional students who are always in need of that extra support not knowing what to do and where to go with these children and don’t quite fit into either the gifted side or special educational side. So there in a special category they need to be acknowledged for their strengths but yet looking at how we can help them through some other challenges as well. Through my experience there been different levels of twice exceptions. From a student that I had in borrow who was a six grader. He was very gifted but he had high degree of emotional problems and so he did very well in a small class room setting. I had about 12 to 15 students in beginning in my GT-Elective class and then midway through the semester there were about 10 to 12 additional students put in the class room...
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...Overcoming the Barriers: twice-exceptional students There are many different aspects to the special education system. One area of interest is the best practice teaching strategies in a direct instruction (DI)/special room as it pertains to students with a disability. In particular, students with disabilities who have the cognitive ability to do grade level work or higher in order to meet the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) where they can excel academically which some scholars referred to as the “twice exceptional.” The recent studies of twice-exceptional students are limited, but there are several scholarly authors moving forward with continuing research. There are many different works over special education and the different roles played...
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...article, “Gifted Students with Disabilities: ‘Twice Exceptionality in the Music Classroom’” by Joseph Michael Abramo, is significant in determining the various strategies that can be incorporated into the classroom for students with a disability. Before reading this article, I was unaware that the teacher has to modify each lesson twice for students who are twice exceptional. I did not contemplate how the teacher would need to differentiate for both their giftedness and their disabilities. This seems as if it would take a significant amount of extra time, especially since the teacher needs to encourage the students to pursue their strengths and interests as well. Overall, it will be extremely challenging to accommodate for students with special needs, but taking on this task will be well worth the additional effort to see the students succeed!...
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...was not in on the day I conducted the interviews, however I was able to conduct the interview through email. I also planned to interview a gifted student in the PACT program, but unfortunately the student was sick and not at school. Nonetheless, I believe I received a great deal of information from the stakeholders that...
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...widespread belief in American folklore that the United States of America is God's country because it would become a "city upon a hill", watched by the world (John Winthrop: "A Modell of Christian Charity", 2007). Although the term does not necessarily imply superiority, many political leaders and writers have coined its use in that sense. Naturally, others hold the position that America is not really exceptional at all. In fact, after taking a cursory glance at some of the issues that our leaders are charged to correct, we can easily peel off the loftier label and replace it with a more humbling phrase. To begin, America’s hunger issue is a strong reason to reduce our loftier standing. It is not impressive that in a country without drought or famine and with enough food and money to feed the world twice over 1-in-8 of our own people struggle to put food on its table (Berg, 2009). Also, in 2010, 4.8 percent of all U.S. households (5.6 million households) accessed emergency food from a food pantry one or more times (Hunger & Poverty Statistics). Reducing these numbers will be an exceptional task. The crime problem in the U.S. also keeps the country from meriting a prouder classification over other nations. One cause is its readiness to lock up its citizens. Consider that one American adult in 100 is behind bars...
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...This paper serves to discuss the benefits of music therapy for special needs students, and propose a method of providing music therapy to special education children in the public school system. Music therapy has proven to be beneficial to special needs learners in that it promotes motor skills, academic skills, communication skills, and social skills. These skills are essential for special needs students to obtain in order to function in an academic environment and in the world around them. Music therapy provides methods of helping exceptional students develop these skills and use them in the school setting. It is necessary that music therapy be provided in the general special education curriculum because there are numerous benefits. It can...
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...examples. (250-500 words). Gifted and talented students exhibit exceptional ability across a range of disciplines. (Gifted.uconn.edu,. ,2014). Being gifted may prove to be a double edged sword. By the student initially possessing attributes associated with giftedness, the teacher may in fact concentrate their efforts on those who are less gifted, thereby neglecting the potential of the gifted child in mainstream education. Having said that, this may be the case of academically gifted children but not children gifted in other areas such as sports or music (Watson, 2014). . Academically gifted children tend to be ‘neglected’ whereas giftedness in other areas tend to be encouraged. Throughout the educational process, it is essential for students to have a good relationship with their peers, usually through a process of ‘reversion to the mean’ (Slideshare, 2014). In such contexts, gifted students may deliberately under-perform or not participate in the educational process to help their integration with peers. Should the student fail to do this, they run the risk of alienation from peers. Alienation from peers may allow for academic progress in the short term, although through reduced social interaction/skills and depression, may in fact result in reduced academic/social achievement in the longer term. Being gifted may enable the student to learn at a faster pace compared to peers (Centre, A. 2014). As such, gifted students may actually not be pushed to their full potential...
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...All Tier 2 interventions for all six students will continue with the high-quality instruction they experienced in Tier 1, in addition, now the interventions will be more time-intensive, more focused, and conducted in small groups. All six students will receive extra small- group instruction within the classroom. Furthermore, Harmony will continue to take part in her accelerated and enrichment programs. The targeted small-group interventions within the general education classroom will be designed to remediate skill deficits. Tier 2 interventions are also designed to pre-teach and review skills, so all six students can succeed in the Tier 1 lessons within the general education classroom. Of course, we must also allow these students multiple opportunities to practice skills while immediate corrective feedback is given. Some Tier 2 interventions that our school has successfully used and may for these six students include peer tutoring, time management skills, task analysis, and study skills management. Students will engage in repeated reading and use error correction procedures during reading within their small groups. Tier 2 will really focus on me working with the six students in small groups and finding out what will help these six students learn. For the...
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...To be honest, I cannot see myself having been suspended from school for academic reasons. I have always been an outstanding student who has always followed the school’s and society’s norms. My mother taught me that having discipline in life and never giving your dreams up are the key to being successful. That is how I have come so far from being an immature adolescent who used to blame her misfortune of not having the privilege of attending school in this country because I was already a high school graduated student from my native country when I was sixteen and had to work instead to being a prosperous woman that had overcome multiple challenges in her life to be one more step closer to achieve her dream of becoming an environmental design...
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...Theory of Knowledge Reflective Writing Responses 2014-2015 1. In my opinion, my Theory of Knowledge course was exceptional. We learned methodically, starting with building blocks. This method was effective, as it allowed us to fully understand the course’s assignment in the future. Furthermore, learning the basics first allowed us to constantly improve our skills in forming knowledge questions and knowledge claims for our presentation and final essays. This course exceeded my expectations because it allowed me to think beyond the events and consider why they happened. This was hard because I had to train my brain to think differently. However, it was worth it because I grew as a learner and an individual. I think it was important that I knew nothing of the subject prior to this course. This put me in the learner’s seat and allowed me to understand better the things I did not know. A piece of advice I would pass on to future TOK students is, “Think outside the box.” Also, “You will probably fail once or twice but you’ll get there.” 2. I – Emotions are as reliable as reason. II – Areas of knowledge are not applied; they are organized clusters of knowledge. III – No area of knowledge is inferior to another, especially the arts and the religious knowledge systems. 3. - I know bits and pieces of knowledge as I am of the opinion that we can never know the whole story. - I can say I know myself pretty well. I believe my background and experiences shape the way...
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...| Job Title | Account Manager / Customer Care | | Level/Grade | Type of position: | Hours: | Compensation: | High school or College diplomaNo special education required | Full-time | 9am-5pm; MON-FRI | $ 3,000/month | | Part-time | 5hr/day - flextime MON-FRI | $ 2,000/month + 5% from transaction | | Contractor / Commissioned Employee Intern/Student | flextime MON-FRI | $ 19/hr | Note: Every candidate will get a paid probation! Term 10 days.$1200 for 10 days of probation. | Today we seek for employees for our company to improve the quality of service and to speed up the processing of orders. It is not important where did you work before or where are you working now, but if you have combination possibility, you are sociable, responsible and self-exacting, you have a magnificent opportunity to become our employee and to receive high income. Today we make special demands to our employees as you are the persons who represent image of the company. | General Description | You must be able to provide exceptional customer service, providing solution based client reviews to open up new leads and increase market share amongst existing clients. * Data Entry and admin work * Process Client Orders * Sign and set up new clients with trading accounts * Development and implementation of joint business plans and customer strategy * Management of promotional engineering and trade investment * Taking...
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...really had that much experience in adjusting to new things, I can say that in the recent years, things have been different for me. I have learned to love some of the strangest, friendliest and most remarkable people I can honestly say I have ever met. It was these people who unintentionally taught me that life changing situations, even bad ones, can ultimately have the most positive outcomes. By simply looking at him, he appears to be an ordinary five foot seven inch tall freshman student. His posture reminds me of Quasimodo and his strut is more of a prowl. Up close, one can make out the scarce hairs on his upper lip, which he dubs his “‘stache.” His Beatles-inspired bowl cut, collage of freckles, and plain blue eyes are not especially striking. After holding a conversation with him, one can immediately note his incomparable character. Things that most fourteen year olds cannot comprehend and do not think twice about, he thrives to become familiar with. For example, how many AP Calculus students can say that they have a younger brother to help them when solving derivatives? Not only does he wear band shirts from the 1980s and 1990s, he also listens to music that would be nostalgic for many adults. His sincere interest in music has compelled him to master nearly seven different instruments including the banjo, the didgeridoo, and the harmonica. Most people do not have...
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...in New Mexico PTA Reflections Fair. As he grew older, he continued to excel in writing and his story, To Top It All Off, was placed in the Library of Congress. Shane often wrote of his of his many challenges he experienced due to his learning disability. In the years, 2005 and 2006, Shane became an All-American Scholar. Despite his educational successes, for majority of his early years, Shane struggled in school. His main area he struggled in was reading and writing, although those were his gifts. Shane was gifted in a diverse range of areas, but his strengths were combined with his challenges. In fourth grade, he realized he was unable to read, write, or keep up with his classmates; therefore, he fell behind and was placed into a twice exceptional class....
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...Katherine Fox My Teaching Philosophy The elementary age is a crucial time in students’ lives as this is when they are exposed to classroom learning for the first time. It is at this period when most students form their opinions on school which, typically, last their whole school careers. Teachers play a vital role in forming this outlook. I believe this because of my younger brother, Drew. He has never liked school, and school was a constant struggle for him, my mother, and my father. Drew’s dislike for school began in the first grade when he had a teacher who told him he was stupid. Throughout the whole school year all she did was put him down. Unfortunately Drew did not get officially diagnosis with ADHD until he was in the eighth grade. Even though he did not have this official diagnosis in his earlier career, his teachers should have given him differentiated instructions. From Drew’s negative experiences and as a future educator, I will never discourage my students. It is my goal to make a difference in the life of every child I get the privileged to educate. Educating children with special needs means being aware of their abilities and reflecting upon their educational development and the best possible way of helping them. As an elementary special needs teacher of students with severe disabilities, I will develop strong bonds with each student, provide the much needed support and confidence they so desperately need. I will individualize instructional programs that will maximize...
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