Teaching Students with Special Needs

It is very important to know how to act with special needs students in your class. For example if you have students with learning disabilities and in the other hand gifted students, you as teacher should know how to manage you instructions. Students with learning disabilities have poor self-esteem, short auditory memory and easily confused, and has difficulty in working with others, however, gifted students tend to have high level of curiosity, well developed imagination, well organized and able to recall information. Here comes the challenge, you as a teacher should gives your attention more to those students with learning disabilities,you should provide oral instruction for those students, you have to give them quick feedback to see the relationship between what was taught and what was learned, also provide them with concrete objects so they can learn better and faster. But the most important thing is that you don't have to differentiate in the way you are treating them, you should  treat them equally, for them to feel safe and for their achievement.

How to make school more interesting?

Every school child has something to say about school experience. For instance, students love school if they have activities that meet their interest, if they have good peers to share with them good time, beside the good academic performance and good relationships with their teachers, definitely they will tell you they love school, however, students how lack most of these necessities, for sure their academic performance will decrease and they will hate going to school. 

The Question is: What can be done to help students love school? Several steps could be done, here is some of them. For example, fun Activities are ways students can be encouraged to love school, through providing them with such fun activities, like playing piano or dancing, if they found that these activities meet their interest, for sure they will love going to school. Also another way could be done is by making school feel a little like home, some students hate school because they miss the comfort of home, having a comfortable and lovely environment surrounding them at home, so they find it difficult at schools because of the rules and atmosphere. Therefore the only way that can help students to feel they are in a safe and comfortable space is by allowing them to hang pictures of family and friends in their own space. Another important thing is that teachers should be a good friend for their students, as a teacher, you should know when to be serious and when to be a good friend, when to make fun and jokes and when to be strict, it's not a rule to be mean all times, it's important to be flexible and this will make students love you and enjoy coming to school.

Online Webinar: Implementing Global Fluency In The Classroom: Activities, tools and lesson Ideas of Leveraging Your Classroom Student's Diversity

I have watched this online webinar and i have got a great information concerning the topic. This webinar was presented by Brad Gosche. He first started talking in general about global fluency, then he define what is global fluency and how it affects education.He said:" Global Fluency is the knowledge,skills, and mindest needed to live and work effectively and successfully in globally connected world." Then he move to talk about how to recognize the role of cultural acumen, and building professional relationships, trust among students, also he mentioned creating tools, techniques and activities to use with students and your school community. Gosche said:" Cultural influences all aspects of our different environments, interactions, and perceptions of others and reactions to our students." He also mentioned ways to develop global fluency, these ways are summarized: 1- stretching the comfort zone, 2- grouping colors and shapes, 3- sample discussion questions and last thing is understanding other's perceptions, backgrounds and experiences. He said that education demands global fluency to work effectively with both students and their families, and that successful educators acknowledge the array of cultures and perspectives in their classrooms and leverage them to enhance each student's learning experience.