Making Science Accessible: Strategies to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Student Population
Tue, Apr 18, 2017 8:07 PM
great article!!!
In this article it talks about how many teachers are not prepare or aware of students with disabilities and unfortunately, due to this, many students don’t get the best chance to learn. How many teachers, not knowing how to properly modify learning, fall back to taking out the fun and engaging parts of the science activities such as experiments in which in there defends they say is to “protect” the students and keep the lesson safe. Building awareness and identifying and developing modifications for students with disabilities is a great way to definitely get teachers to go in the the right direction in being able to construct a lesson plan that fits students with different learning skills. I completely agree with the article that the number one important thing is for teachers to build their awareness of different disabilities and prepare for them in case they encounter student with those disabilities in class. Another thing I found very helpful was the activity it offered for students to get a better understanding of a student with a specific disability to comprehend their struggle a little and get the students thinking. Giving each student this role and seeing how they act out as a student with disability is a great way to also help prepare a teacher. I plan to hopefully use this in the future so I can understand and be a little more prepare when it comes to modifying my lesson to fit my students needs and still keep the fun in science. This article was very insightful and informative to how to better start preparing and getting aware of students in my class who may have disabilities. Like the article was saying, we need to bring back the real science and the experiment so that students can get a real understanding of science.