Depression

What is Depression? Depression is a common serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel about things in life, the way you think, the way you act. Depression is a feeling of sadness or not interested in an activity you once enjoyed. This can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems to function at work and home. There are reasons for Depression such as feeling sad/having a depressed mood, loss interest, changes in appetite such as weight loss or gain unrelated to dieting, sleeping too much and lack of sleep, feeling worthless and guilty, difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions, and thoughts of death/suicide. This is really important to everyone in general especially in students that feel depression.

Students that have depression will have no motivation to go to school, talk to their classmates, lack of participation, an outcast on activities, and getting bad grades in their classes. As a teacher, we should be able to help the student and guide them. Sometimes they just need a friend to talk too or someone who's willing to listen to their thoughts without judging them. Students who get depressed easily is about break-up and family problems. There are many ways to make a student not feel depressed by doing something new out of their comfort zone, meeting new people, talking to advisors, running, shopping, and etc. Parents played a big role in this situation to guide their children and talk to them.  Parents showing that they care and love their child will make everything better.

Task Box

I had to make a task box for Autistic Children to benefit them for having fun in the activity. There are many fun task box for Autistic Children to help them learn in a way they are communicating with themselves and their classmates. Teachers are able to be creative on their Task Box and have fun with their activity in the classroom. Every student has their individual task box schedule. They know to pick the boxes from top to bottom. Students are able to learn on their own and can ask for help when from the teacher if they are struggling on the activity.

You can find these task box online on Printerest or on youtube. There are many different kinds of task box that teachers can help the student have an activity according to their subjects. My task box is food organization. I printed out many fruits, vegetables, and junk food. I created an enveloped and wrote every 3 envelopes of the names. I made a clear direction for students to understand what to do. The student just has to put the fruits, vegetables, and junk foods in the right envelopes. My other classmates were really creative on their task box. I liked my classmates own that had hard and soft objects and the coin boxes where the student have to figure out how many cents they are in the envolpe.

Speech and Language Impairment

My professor assigned me to do Speech and Language Impairment for my Disability Grid assignment. This assignment is about information about the Speech and Language Impairment. The Speech and Language Impairment is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that affects a child's educational performance. In the article that I have read said if the child fails to meet the speech and language milestone will be set by American Speech-language-hearing association (ASHA). The child might have a speech and language impairment. The education challenge is communicating with students and teachers, understanding the situation, participating in classroom discussion, and Attaining within a group. This affects children in reading,writing, and speaking in class to communicate with students and the teacher.

There tips for teachers and parents that can handle this type of situation. Importantly, teachers should also let her/his students know to treat each other equally. For example, when a student is bullying the student that has disability will make the student be frighten and low-esteem. They tend to mock, irritate them, and treat them less. Teacher should be ready to help the student learn and make more time for them to understand the assignment. Students with communication problem should be in groups with students to help each other and be comfortable by learning together. Students with Speech and Language Impairment will exercise their mind by doing critical thinking, abstract thinking, and memory retraining.  Teachers and Parents can provice to help children overcome with their disability to give self-esteem, achieve confidence and pride, and have meaningful roles in the students lives.

Game Rubric + Game Link

Game Link

A Rubric has become popular to teachers of communicating expectation with their students such as assignments, projects, and homework. Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate rather than being judged. Rubrics can make their students improve their understanding skills and their quality of their work. When teachers use a rubric, there are advantages, and disadvantages of using a Rubric to students. One of the advantages for this rubric is when teachers give feedback to students to show how to improve their work. The disadvantages for this rubric is single overall score does not communicate information about what to do to improve. 

In my ED-271 class, Dr. Olah put us into groups to do this game rubric. My group and I created a game rubric for our second-grade students. We chose to do the math and our rubric is about the game video's that we played online for free for our second graders. The games that I found are fun because I have played these games before especially it is addicting learning through online. I will show you an example of my game link and my rubric cube that I made. We also made students their own rubric cube to evaluate themselves. This is fun and games for our future students. We just want the best for them and help them improve their math skills. There are many ways to improve their skills by doing hands-on and group activity.