Joshua

Joshua I am focusing on students with learning disabilities. According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, over 15 million children, teens, and adults, have a learning disability. The resource I found is: [] 1. I choose student's with learning disabilities, because often times they struggle in the classroom, which potentially can lead to a negative impact on their future's, including college, relationships, and job opportunities. My goal as a teacher is to powerfully impact, and effectively teach all students, the skills they need to advance academically and in life.

The site is the home for the National Center for Learning Disabilities. There are numerous resources for teachers including: strategies, studies,and guides, on how to effectively teach and prepare students with learning disabilities for college,life, and the workforce.

2. I have decided to narrow my focus from the broad category of learning disabilities, to a more specific learning disability, dyslexia. I am focusing on dyslexia, because it is one of the most common, and debilitating learning disabilities. [|http://www.dyslexia.com/] The above resource provides articles, networking sites, workshop information, strategies, and videos about dyslexia. Basically, there is a wealth of educational resources for teachers, and parents.

3. Another site that is dyslexia specific is the International Dyslexia Association: [] The site provides numerous resources about dyslexia. Some of the highlights of the site are: publications, articles, discussion forums, online bookstore, and teacher specific resources.

4. [] This site is teacher driven, and provides practical strategies to differentiate your lesson for students who have dyslexia in your classroom.

5. [] The above link is to a free website that helps teachers develop grading rubrics. This is an appropriate site, because you can modify existing rubrics; or create your own rubric that is specific to the level of your class. Grading Rubric For Lesson The above link is a grading rubric that will serve as an assessment for this lesson.

The questions to be graded by the rubric are as follows:

1. What is the definition of dyslexia?. 2. Name a famous person who has dyslexia? 3. Why is it important for every student in the classroom to learn? 4. Name something you learned from the lesson today.
 * Each response must be at least a complete sentence**