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    Disabilities Within The Classroom

    Student’s with disabilities face so many challenges when it comes to receiving an education. Most of the time they feel exclusion from society and their school. We can see this happen on a day to day basis. It is difficult for students with disabilities to receive a proper education, with the lack of resources some schools may have. It is unfortunate to say that this is not one of the schools main priority when it comes to funding. The concern of ‘will my child receive the same quality of education just as any other student’ is always going to be there. While there are some institutions that are trying to…

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    The Tyler rationale

    As I read the chapter and learned about the Tyler rationale model I can see how it has been used in schooling today and when I was younger. I always knew that educators followed a guideline as to what they had to complete/teach the students by the end of the year, but I did not know that it was this model. I can understand now that it was used when I was growing up in my classrooms. It makes sense to me why teachers would use this method of teaching as it gave them guidelines and rules to follow in order to accomplish all that needs to be done for…

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    Blog post: Commonsense

    Kumashiro describes commonsense as it does not tell us what we could be doing, but it tells us what we should be doing. It is important to pay attention to the commonsense because most of the time we let ourselves get wrapped up in commonsense that we limit ourselves in succeeding. What was mentioned in the reading where he was trying to bring in his commonsense knowledge of American schooling to the school across seas, where these students have never heard of those ways before interested me. He began to notice that and started to expand his ways of teaching and relate more to the students’ way of learning. Adventuring…