Tell It Simply, Please!
This week in my Emotional and Behavioral Disorders class we are learning about conceptual models in approaching the problems of students with E/BD. This morning I read about "Triadic Reciprocality in social-cognitive theory". Basically it means that a student's behavior, personality, and environment work together to affect a person. Duhhh! It's amazing how the academicians can come up with such high-falluting terms to explain something we all know! Then they display these unbelievably complicated diagrams to illustrate it--like that's going to clear it up for us. Learn a lot today, everyone!
posted by Pam @ 7:44 AM
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I've had that feeling before that the book and/or professor is just teaching common sense, but then again, not everyone has common sense :)
Pam, you have me SO looking forward to going back to school next week. Ugh! :) Can you hear me whining?? Happy learning!
If we could teach common sense what a breakthrough that would be.
Here is a thought - how about a college instructor prior to teaching is required to spend a week in a real school!
Matt has started his tutoring project at a new school which he has to get a bus to get to. All that was left after his car problem and not being able to work with 5th graders was....teaching Kindergarten kids how to read.
He called in a panice saying that the kids don't know anything ;) and that he has no resources short of homemade flash cards for pictures and sounds. Do you have anything we can send the poor boy.
I reminded him that Ella and Quinn are 5 and that most Kindergarteners don't know sounds and how to read! Can you imagine Matt size wise with a kindergartener?
Mary, I'm sure I could pull something together for him. For a kindergardener he should first make sure he has all the reading readiness in place - letter recognition and phonemic awareness skills - letter sounds, understanding blending of sounds, conventions of print, rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. It would be very difficult to start on reading if these skills aren't in place. In addition do a lot of reading to the student of simple books with him/her looking on.
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