Sabra Hawkes 12/16/18 Inclusive Practice Final Course Reflection Guiding question: How can we design for inclusion? Foundations of Inclusive Practice gave me the opportunity to study the practices of managing and understanding learning environments that include students who have disabilities, special needs, and general differences than their peers in school and create a space where they could be included in learning. Throughout the semester we did several projects that helped solidify our learning in what it entails to teach a student with a learning disability or learning difference. The Least Restrictive Environment assignment quite honestly introduced me to what LRE was. I hadn’t heard this term prior to this class but after the lectures and assignment surrounding it, its quite clear, include students in as much general education as possible. That will look different for each student but be sure they are included as much as possible while still learning. The ...
What is essential in child & youth development? This is the guiding question of our class, Eco-Human Experience. This question was the focal point and guide for each of our assignments and class discussions throughout the semester. Much of our class discussions focused on how children and adolescence develop. One assignment that we did was a great showcase of this focus. The Bioecological Self Analysis intended for us to pick a significant time period in our lives and chronicle how each system affected your development. Individual, Macrosystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosysyem, and Chronosystem. Each level represented a different part of who you were and how you developed. For me, my project helped me understand how the experiences, social interactions and outside influences shape us as individuals. As an example, I c...