Dyslexic students have great difficulty learning to spell and read because they look at and learn information differently than other children in a classroom. They are right brain dominantthinkers which means they look at all things from the "big picture" and then the parts. Theyalso need to ...
Dysgraphia is alearning disabilitythat affects a person's writing. It can make it hard for someone to write clearly by hand. Depending on the type ofdysgraphia, it can also make it difficult to spell. It's a neurological (nervous system) disorder that affects thefine motor skillsneeded to...
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Although group work is increasingly used in STEM courses and may lead to improved academic outcomes, there is evidence that some implementations of group work may lead to unintended barriers for certain students’ learning. Despite the growing number of
Maybe someone is dyslexic and the other kids ridicule them for that disadvantage. There are tons of reasons why someone may feel alone in a room full of people. You can never know what's going inside their heads, but you may assume if you pay individual attention to each student....
“What do they have to teach me?” rather than being this submissive mindset of, “They have all the answers and I need them.” That can either put you in this submissive place of wanting them to tell you what to do or the flip side of that, which is, “I don’t want anybody ...
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surely they’d find value in what I could bring to the table by being smart. It was hard for me to see how I brought value if I wasn’t being useful to someone in some way. The idea that justbeingme and notdoinganything to earn acceptance was foreign to me. I pushed myself acade...