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Wilmington College

How does the identification of students with special needs, legislation, and instructional differentiation relate to my practice and my school? Aimee Cooper . Wilmington College. My School. Arlington Heights Academy, located in Arlington Heights Ohio, which is in the Lockland School District.

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Wilmington College

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  1. How does the identification of students with special needs, legislation, and instructional differentiation relate to my practice and my school? Aimee Cooper Wilmington College

  2. My School • Arlington Heights Academy, located in Arlington Heights Ohio, which is in the Lockland School District. • The Lockland School District is a small district with approximately 700 students. • Arlington Heights has approximately Fifty-four students. Twenty students are on an I.E.P.

  3. Arlington Heights

  4. Arlington & Differentiated Instruction • Differentiated instruction is instruction that focuses on the student’s needs rather than the school’s needs. • What does this mean? • Is differentiated instruction going against “Teaching to the Test”.

  5. Arlington and Differentiated Instruction • Almost every child in our school is there due to issues from their previous school. • Most have been discipline problems in their school and a few have chosen to attend. • Arlington is unique in that our classes have a maximum of fifteen children.

  6. Arlington and Differentiated Instruction • Arlington teachers follow what current research says that children do better in smaller classrooms and often children with learning disabilities need to have differentiated instruction. • Examples of these would be service learning projects that Arlington participates in.

  7. Arlington Heights and Differentiated Learning

  8. Examples of Lessons structured around Differentiated Learning • Math ----- Making a scale model of a house. This way students have to use measurements and learn math in a hands on practical way. • English --- Reading a story to the children, using the movie version of a book. • History ---- Having students do powerpoint presentations and also using movies in order to illustrate history.

  9. Why I believe in Differentiated L.D. Students • I have been at Arlington Heights Academy since November, 2009. • I have seen many positive things in this area and I have seen how it can work better for everyone.

  10. References • King-Sears, Margaret E. (2008). Facts and Fallacies: differentiation and the general education • Curriculum for students with special educational needs. Support for Learning, 23(2), • 55-62. • McDermott, Paul A., Goldberg, Michelle M., Watkins, Marley L, Stanley, Jeanne L., Glutting, • Joseph J. (June 2006). Journal of Learning Disabilities. A Nationwide Epidemiologic • Modeling Study of LD: Risk, Protection, and Unintended Impact, 23(3), 230-251. • Smith, Earl Bradford (2009). Approaches to Multicultural Education in Preservice Teacher • Education, Philosophical Frameworks and Models for Teaching. Multicultural • Education. Spring 2009, 45-50.

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