Lesson 6/7 Blog

     I really enjoyed how the low incidence and high incidence disabilities were taught. I enjoyed teaching and also learning from my classmates. The disability that my group taught was learning disabilities. It was fun to teach this disability because it is an umbrella that encompasses so many common disabilities. Learning about these disabilities made me have more sympathy. I have always been pretty good at school. School is easy for me. It honestly just makes sense. Through learning about learning disabilities I was better able to understand others that I know some that are even close to me. I realize now that school can be a challenge and that we need to be willing to help those that are struggling and not just expecting them to do it on their own.
     I really enjoyed how we learned form others as well. I think having to teach and learn made us more active learners because it made us realize the preparation that other groups had to do because we had to do it as well.
     I really enjoyed that each group had to do something to model their disability. I really enjoyed the emotionally disturbed M&Ms modeling activity. It really showed me how frustrating it can be for students with disabilities if things are being done in a way that is frustrating to the way that they think and feel.
     I also really enjoyed the modeling activity for poverty. It really helped me to visualize how it must feel or even just how life is for those that are living in poverty. I honestly never thought of poverty as a disability until it was taught to me this semester and I realize that it is. I was so blessed to have the home that I had, the education that I have, and the life that I have.
     As I have learned about these disabilities I feel like we are all disabled in some way. This makes me realize that as a society we need to be more sympathetic to those that are around us because we all struggle in some way. It also made me realize the why of differentiated instruction on a deeper level. It is really needed to meet the needs of all students not just the ones with more prominent disabilities. All disabilities are important and have impacts on the people that have those disabilities.