Posts Tagged Revision
Training teachers to address the needs of students with severe mental retardation
Children with severe mental retardation are becoming an integral part of public education, and spending increasing amounts of time in regular classrooms. Teachers and teacher educators are being confronted with the complex educational, social, medical, and psychological needs of these young children. In reviewing the current practices of classroom activities, it is constructive for teacher educators to reflect on mental retardation as it relates to the concept of educability. One operational example of educability is presented in the story of Helen Keller.
The Lesson of Helen Keller
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Curriculum Revision in Adapted Physical Education
This editor frequently receives inquiries from adapted physical educators eager to revise the adapted physical education curriculum at their schools. Sometimes these teachers report that there is no standard adapted physical education (or physical education) curriculum adopted by their school districts. In other cases, the teacher is only concerned about how to improve content of the courses s/he teaches. The purpose of this Issues article is to suggest ways in which these teachers might approach the task of curriculum revision.
Curriculum Revision
Whenever possible, curriculum revision should be conducted at the school district level, or minimally among all schools that feed into a single high school. Curriculum revision should involve both adapted and regular physical education teachers at all levels of the program. School administrators, community leaders, and recent graduates of the physical education program should also be involved in this effort. Often, curriculum revision efforts are more effective when guided by a knowledgeable consultant from a local university. Read the rest of this entry »
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our College Application Essay – Managing the Feedback
Once you’ve completed your college application essay, it’s always a good idea to get feedback from other people. But who those people are, and how you manage their feedback, can often be the difference between a good essay and a great one. Here are six ways to manage that feedback, and use it to your greatest advantage.
1. Be sure you are reasonably happy with the essay before you show it to anyone. This doesn’t mean that you think it’s perfect and won’t be open to making changes. Instead, it assures that you will be able to analyze feedback from a position of strength, not insecurity, thus maximizing its benefits.
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