Grading children with IEP

I would want to find a different way to give the students grades that show how they are improving relating to their IEPS. I feel that giving them grades on report cards relating to their IEPs would not be honest. Yes most of the time students on IEP will improve over time. Growing up I was on an IEP. It would have been nice to have a separate report that showed how I was improving but also seeing where I was compared to to other students would have been nice also.

Pre and postassessments

There is a time and place for tests. The need for pre an post assessments are very important because they help to see where children are at. With out them you will never know how much the students have learn or what they are really struggling with. I agree that there are to many test, but there need to be a way to see where students are at.

Grading Children with IEP

It would be very hard to grade someone with an IEP fairly in comparison with an average grade student for me. I feel I would be very bias when overlooking their paper and looking at their improvements rather than how accurately the work had been done. I am not sure if this is right or not. Should we compare their intellect equally with those of other students? Or should we compare their intellect with only themselves alone. If an average grade student did the same work as someone with an IEP how would I justify my lower grade for them to them? I still think I would be more lenient in my grading of a student with an IEP, but I am not sure if this is right or not. I wouldn't give them perfect scores for work that didn't have right answers, but I wouldn't fail them if I could see improvements and effort being done.

visual impairment

My experience wasn't the first being visual impaired, I have really bad eye sight that is why I wear contacts. At times I have lost those contacts and have experience visual impairment. For this activity though it was interesting seating in class blind, just when people are talking you like to look them and kind of read lips plus hear the words at the same time, but when your blind it like your whole focus is in the hearing process and felt that my hearing was a lot better. Maybe it was because there wasn't so much distractions. Now for being one eyed blind was a lot harder then being totally blind, because that one eye works hard. Because I have experience this before having had only one contact at time knew kind of what would happen and guess what it happen it I got a headache which totally stinks. But it gave me a sense of what those who only have one working eye.              

Wheel chair

The wheelchair was interesting experience, just the fact of having people help. I'm a person who does things for myself and asking people for help is the last thing I like doing. But at the same time it was great to see, so many people willing to help from opening doors to pushing me up the hills. At the same time the whole experience let me experience a little bit of those who have to be in wheel chair every day and I'm grateful for two legs that work. And I'm more sensitive to the needs, because of this experience.   

pre and post test

In testing there has to be a reason behind assessments. You don't test for the heck of it. You test to first to see where their ability and knowledge is and what needs to be taught for the year which is pretests and two to asses the knowledge at the end of the year to see what they learn from your teachings. Those or to me why you do assessments.   

Service hours

I was able to referee a special needs basketball game. I noticed right away when I first got there I could see the joy that came from the kids faces, that they where excited. One of the kids names was Jason and he was one of first person to come to me. He told me and the other referee of how he was, so excited to be able play in his first real basketball game. As the game went on I meet and be came friends with a lot of those kids that were playing. The best part of the whole experience was just seeing the faces of the kids when they made a basket, they would smile, they would put there fist in the air and they would jump up in excitement. The over all experience was fun and joyful totally was worth it.