...Legislation mandates that, wherever possible, children with exceptionalities be educated in mainstream education classrooms with other students. As a result, a teacher’s role and responsibilities have become increasingly complex. List some of the common characteristics of gifted students, and specific ways in which a teacher could accommodate the needs of a student who is gifted in the mainstream education classroom. Exceptional Verbal Skills-When a gifted child begins to speak (which often times is early) they possess large vocabularies, use complete sentences and talk incessantly. Incredible Memory- Gifted children soak up learning experiences around them like little sponges and remember things with little practice. Oftentimes, when being read to, they will pick up on it if an adult leaves out a word in a favorite book. Some even have a photographic memory. Insatiable Curiosity- Gifted children constantly ask "why?". Their curiosity knows no bounds and they can be exhausting at times because they never tire of asking questions. Many Interests- Interests for gifted children can be more advanced and cover many different subject matters. Some gifted children may be consumed with learning only one topic. Other gifted children may change interests so often that it frustrates their teachers and parents. Interested in Experimenting-Gifted childrens' inquisitive nature lends itself to taking things apart and trying to understand what makes things 'tick'. They may also mix...
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...Fantasy Some people believe that fantasy is dangerous for children to read, and some people have a completely different opinion. According to Ursula Le Guin, fantasy is not just for children, but for adults too, “Tales of talking animals and fantastical adventure aren’t just for children, argues Ursula Le Guin – we can and should return to them throughout our lives” (Quote page 1 line 1-3). Right from the beginning you know that ULG is a fan of fantasy being a part of everyone’s lives. You can always use your child or grandchild as an excuse to read fantasy, if you don’t have the courage to do it by yourself. Fantasy has always been perceived as being for children only, and fantasy has been conflated with immaturity, which according to ULG is a rather sizeable error. Many of the texts are poetry and it contains different elements from different genres. Many fantasies which actually were published as for children, is often read by adults, “It begins with, say, George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind and runs on through Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, The Wind in the Willows, the Just So Stories and The Jungle Book, the Pooh books, Dr Dolittle, The Hobbit, The Once and Future King, Charlotte’s Web, to my first three Earthsea books and all the serious imaginative fiction that continues to be published “for children” but is often read by adults” (Quote page 2 line 48-52). Realistic fiction does not affect everyone, but only people in...
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...narrates about her life and also her memories of other characters . As she tells her story the more the reader realize that something is mysterious about Hailsham. Hailsham is an institute where human clones grow up for the purpose of donating organs to others ,like a donor organ farm. The children somewhat knew their fate but never pressed for more information because they did not want to know. Guardians are the people that watches over the children and educates them, similar to a teacher and even parents. Kathy tells us about her friends and focuses a great deal on Ruth and Tommy since those are two most important characters in this novel. Ruth is Kathy's best friend through the story however they quarrel. Everything about Ruth is told through Kathy's eyes and she tells all of it,...
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...Good stories should capture the reader's attention and have a purpose. ¨The Secret Integration¨ has some powerful messages, and the interesting and unique thing is that none of these powerful messages are ever plainly explained. It never says in the story ¨racism is bad¨ or anything like that, so it is up to the reader to interpret the message the author is writing about and it could possibly be interpreted in different ways. There are three themes in the story that make it meaningful and a good story. And these themes are all somehow related to each other and add detail to each other. The three themes are racism, the corruption of adults, and the innocence of children. In ¨The Secret Integration¨, racism plays a big role in developing the...
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...which take control of the body and mind at different times. A person who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder forgets and often blacks out at times in which a different personality takes over. This forgetfulness is often described as “beyond ordinary forgetting”. During these times of “blacking-out” is when a secondary personality takes over, and that is the reason for the forgetting. The main identity is called the host identity and often is unaware of the secondary personality or personalities. Before the 1980’s Dissociative Identity Disorder was a rare disorder that did not seem to have much attention. Dissociative Identity Disorder was not mentioned by more then a sentence in the DSM that was under the category of “hysterical neurosis”. There was no separate listing for Dissociative Identity Disorder until 1980 where a group of interested therapists lobbied to have Dissociative Identity Disorder become a full part of the DSM. (Acocella 6) As defined in the DSM-IV TR Dissociative Identity Disorder is “the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of behavior.” (526) Dissociative Identity Disorder 2 In the DSM-IV TR in order to diagnose Dissociative Identity Disorder these guidelines must be met: • Traumatic stressor: The patient has been exposed to a catastrophic event involving actual or threatened death or injury, or a serious physical threat to him- or herself or others. During exposure to the trauma...
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...Dominique Matthews Informative Speech Schizophrenia Did you ever have an imaginary friend as a child? Maybe a couple of imaginary friends who can keep you company while everyone else is gone? Imagine living with these “friends” every second of everyday of your life. That’s what schizophrenics suffer. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disease and the reason why I am talking about schizophrenia is because I have an interest in psychology and schizophrenia is one of the many personality/mood disorders that interest me the most. Today I will be talking about the symptoms, the causes and effects and the possible treatments for schizophrenia. Although the severe mental disorder is frightening it cannot be cured. According to the University of Pennsylvania health system schizophrenia affects mostly the memory part of your brain and Patrick Young the author of the book “Schizophrenia” states that schizophrenics often lose touch with reality through this disease. There are three categories of schizophrenia; these include the positive, negative, and cognitive. The National Institute of Mental Health stated that hallucinations and delusions are the most common symptoms of schizophrenia. Hallucinations and delusions fit into the positive category. Hallucinations are when the person suffering from the disease will often hear, see, or even feel that person that they are imagining and no one else can see these people. For example, David Berkowitz was highly publicized in the press;...
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...of social development of children aged 4 years? They enjoy playing with other children and they take turns and shares toys (most of the time). They Understands and obeys simple rules. The Children like to Change the rules of the games as they go along. They like to talk and carry on elaborate conversations some of the children feel jealous from anther children. They persistently ask why. The children enjoy showing off and bragging about possessions. They are fearful of the dark and monsters ,begins to understand danger - at times can become quite fearful, has difficulty separating make-believe from reality ,lies sometimes to protect self and friends, but doesn't truly, understand the concept of lying - imagination often gets in the way, may name call, tattle freely ,likes to shock others by using "forbidden" words, expresses anger verbally rather than physically (most of the time), still throws tantrums over minor frustrations ,imitates parent of the same sex, particularly in play, enjoy pretending, often with imaginary playmates. They pretend goes far beyond "playing house" to more elaborate settings like fire station, school and shoe store and also ice cream shop. They love to tell jokes that may not make any sense at all to adults. The children can feel intense anger and frustrated. They have vivid imagination and sometimes imaginary playmates and also enjoy dramatic play and role playing. D2: The expected stage of social development of children aged 5 years is : They control...
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...ignorance, “Well do you not think she will be lonely and will need someone to play with growing up. You’re still young you do not know for sure.” Where does this stereotype come from I constantly ask myself? Is it true that all “only” children grow to become selfish, lonely, entitled, dependent brats? In fact the stigmatism has stemmed from Psychologist Granville Stanley Hall (1896) whom Supervised the study Of Peculiar and Exceptional...
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...of them still had important roles throughout the play. However, Macbeth, Macduff, and Banquo played either an evil, villainous role or a gallant, heroic role. Macbeth’s prophecy was that he was to become king of Scotland. Macbeth is friends with Banquo and he has a high status, rank, and respect for others. Macbeth and Banquo met the three witches together and they told them both about their futures. Before Macbeth killed the king he thought “If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me, without my stir.”(p.336) He takes a noble action on his prophecy and doesn’t let fate take its roll. Once Macbeth became king he let his power control himself, and treats everyone unfair but his wife. When Macbeth found out that Banquo thought that the witches had told some things, Macbeth started to have visions of the daggers floating in the air before him with the tip of the dagger aiming toward Duncan. He thought he heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep” (p.352) Macbeth tried to grasp the imaginary dagger and failed. After Banquo’s ghost came to haunt him it started to make him suspicious and show that he is the one that killed him. Macduff is loyal to the king and the brave soldier. He is a father who cherishes his children and he is happy with his life. He was always a trustworthy person he never had disloyal or greed within himself. He became a noble man but he does not take any action on his prophecy. Macduff started to take suspicion into the death of...
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...minutes. But in the film, there is an ambulance. A group of children and a guard with a dog that kept barking. A little child goes up to the dog and is frightened by the dog. There was also a man with these children. Then someone, (a man) is seen covering the exhaust pipes of the ambulance. This part really touched me because I know that when exhaust fumes are covered, they are trapped in the vehicle and you will die. So, he does this and gets in the ambulance and drives a bit by pressing the gas pedal. The next event, they toss these kids one by one on to the ambulance. Just like they weren’t even kids at all. Especially 2 or 3 of the kids, were violently thrown in. The next thing I saw was the man that was with the kids get in as well. It was silent because the director said that words just would not do it justice. People sometimes do end up getting lost in what is going on because they are listening to what is being said. There is no need to have them talking because it’s really self-explanatory and speaks by what is being shown. I learned that these kids were being taken and killed by the loads. It’s sad to think of these kids as alone and being murdered, but this one man that went with them, who didn’t have to, died with them. Very touching and it’s something new that I learned about and decisions that some of the people probably made on a regular basis during the Holocaust. The next film, Imaginary Witness basically just depicted the Holocaust through films...
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...changes that occur in the intellectual, moral and physical development of the adolescent. During this time, the individual moves from a structured, relatively undemanding environment into the more complex and blurred world of adult society. This transition is accomplished by most individuals with some difficulty, but ultimately with success. However, some individuals have great difficulty in making the required adaptations to move from childhood through their adolescence and into adulthood. Social researchers have been focusing on identifying those factors that put youth at risk for development issues. Adolescence is, by its very nature, a high risk time for all young people. This is because it is a time of such great change. This period is relatively chaotic for young people putting them at greater risk for the development of problem behaviors and habits. (TAP, 2007). Different types of social environments encourage the development of different behaviors. There are five levels of the model addressing the systems of adolescence. Each of the systems is dissimilar from the others. These systems involve all manner of social influences. Family, school, peers, neighbors, friends, religious influences, media and cultural norms all help to define the individual’s acceptable behaviors. This is a time of risk for substance abuse and other behaviors that challenge health and social norms. The susceptibility to these risks differs greatly across the population. Factors that...
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...where you have been a witness to a physical hit-and-run assault that occurred across from your home. The police immediately arrive on the scene and begin to ask questions about the details of the unlawful attack. Once at court, you observe this case where the defendant is on trial for the assault. A friend of the defendant is called to the witness stand to provide his version of what happened. The friend commits perjury, or intentionally lying under oath to mislead the court, and assures the defendant did not commit the crime accused. Thus, without enough evidence, the real criminal is set free while an innocent man, with prior criminal conviction, goes to jail for somebody else’s felony. His sentence is sent to be punishable...
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...aggressive and harmful behavior among children (Grabmeier). Simulated violence in video games is harmful because it increases crime, teaches immoral behavior, and addicts people. We all may be aware, crime is not a positive effect of these types of video games. Addiction of these games lead to lack of necessities like sleeping, personal hygiene, and your overall health. Unfortunately, crime can be an amplifier of criminal activity, because of the rewards the game gives when the player completes an immoral achievement. By chance, a person who buys the violent games will go on and carry out a disastrous shooting (Kain). This Society allows many of its mentally ill slip through the cracks. In comparison, the mentally ill man, Jared Loughner caused a shooting in Tucson, Arizona (Fletcher). Clearly, video game players, especially the mentally ill, have trouble telling the apart between imaginary from to what is socially and morally acceptable. In addition, video games teach immoral and unsatisfactory behaviors. The American Psychological Association states violent video games as a risk factor of these behaviors. Some studies show video games cause an...
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...December 2010 Abstract This paper discusses the results a study conducted by Mental, Health, Religion and Culture regarding a qualitative study examining the relationship between religious beliefs and delusions. The paper discusses the definition of delusions as well as religion and makes a stark comparison between the two. The paper includes many different religions and how each claims having a monopoly to salvation. The study included white males from seemingly the same background who were diagnosed as having symptoms of delusions ranging from ages 34 – 57. The paper also discusses several theories as discussed in class regarding thoughts from Erikson, Sullivan and Fromm. Finally, the paper concludes with a brief historical summary of why the author has contention with religion and religious beliefs. Key words: Delusional, fanaticisms, capricious, analogous, and tantamount. When one person suffers from delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from delusion it is called religion. - Robert M. Pirsig There is a close kinship to the relationship between religious beliefs and religious delusion. Merriam-Webster defines delusion as a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also: the abnormal state marked by such beliefs. Religion is defined as the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2): commitment or devotion to religious...
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...(“Tamagotchi,” 2015). It was quite cheap with the price depending on the different versions available, in total there were 11 different variations, with prices ranging from $10 for the cheapest and up to $70 for the most expensive (“Tamagotchi Price,” 2015). The device was aimed at young children around the age of 6. It was aimed to promote nurturing instincts as the children would actually care for the digital pet, and if they failed at this the digital per would die (Baguley, 2013). Moreover, as there were strict laws governing ownership of pets in some countries, the Tamagotchi was an excellent solution for families unable to buy real pets for their children. This is why the device sold so many units. Some of the devices had communication abilities, which allowed children not only to play but also linguistically interact with the toys. This was seen as an educational component to the toy. As the toy was completely non-violent it became a popular choice for parents as a suitable toy for their children’s development. In summary, the Tamagotchi is the first digital toy. The second popular toy is Barbie Barbie is a small human shape like a doll, children play with it like playing with their friends, and they dress it up and can even change its hairstyle. For example, it is a girl fashion doll owned by American-toy Company Mattel, Inc. and was start selling in 1959. For more than 50 years, it has been a big part of the fashion doll toy (“Barbie,”2015). Her story consist of...
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