CLASS DISCUSSIONS

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F.A.T. CITY DISCUSSION

Watching the video was very interesting to me. Being a child that was has a Learning disability. This was nice to watch this and have the instructor teach parents and teachers what child with any disability feels daily. What was interesting to me was the perception part of the video where the instructor had them look at a picture. When I looked at the picture at first it was not clear to me like everybody else in the room. The instructor made them feel like they were doing something wrong by making the comments that a teach would make to a child with a disability. What I took from that is, that each child sees something differently and if we as teachers don’t give them that direct instruction of telling them what they are looking at, they will not be able to give us the answer we are looking for. The other thing was that we cannot pressure the child either, a child with a disability is already on edge with potentially answering questions that they are thinking and processing so hard they miss the question the teachers asks of them. To give a child time to process the question you ask them is very important because the child knows the answer of the question, we are asking they just need time to grab the information from their brains and give us that answer.
Giving a child time and direct instruction is something that is very important. We as future teachers are learning how to make sure the class is equal for all our students. However, by creating an anxious learning environment for a child is not good. The child has accommodations, an IEP, maybe even an ABA in place for a reason. Using those resources and making sure we are applying them is very important since you know what they get anxious from. Also speaking to the child and having them advocate for themselves is also important, you can have a conversation with them every few weeks or so and talk to them about what they need from you. Keeping that line of communication with the child, and their parents, is something that can help the child in the future.
Some questions I had was that how were these teachers taught? I was kind of taken a back when the parents and teachers kept laughing, but I was wondering where they laughing at the fact that they have done this to their kids? Or could they be laughing because they are nervous? Everything that was taught during this did not make me laugh because it is something that kids have gone through and the instructor was trying to show them how a student with a disability feels.

MEDIA CRITQUE

The media source I have chosen is "Atypical," that can be viewed on Netflix. This tv series depicts a high school boy, Sam Gardner, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and how he navigated his way through high school. I chose this tv show because it had a lot of similarities of how a student with Autism behaves and their mannerisms. The critique I have is about how they only depicted Sam Gardner who was on the higher functioning end of ASD. This could be confusing to some people who are not well educated about people who have ASD. However this show is useful to show people what a child who has ASD goes through on a daily basis or being treated differently because they act a little differently. The setting of how Autism is portrayed is very positive since the producers really focused on letting people get to know Sam Gardner as an individual and how he thinks rather than giving a perspective from a typical thinking person, that is what they called people who do not have Autism in the show. My reviews about the show is mixed since they showed viewers about someone who has Autism, but the negative aspect of this show is that the producers were giving the impression that families all have issues and need to go to therapy when they have a child with Autism in the family, which is not the case for everyone.