Week 7 Blog Prompt: Put
up in your blog something you're writing as part of your work and
include two questions you want peers/teacher to focus their attention
on.
I'm in the midst of tweaking my schedule and will post the Gantt chart by Thursday once I can figure out this issue in MS Project. In the meantime, in terms of questions I would like peers/teachers to focus their attention on with my application is:
1. Is it clear the need for workshops such as this, how it will serve educators? If so, what can I do to further make this more appealing?
2. Do you understand the challenges that are before school districts to ensure educators serve students with hearing loss adequately and non-district sponsored and unbiased workshops such as these will benefit these educators?
I think these two questions are two big challenges I have to demonstrate in my application -- to "grab" the funder's heart, so to speak, and make them see the benefits of such workshops.
I believe you have made clear the need for such workshops and how it serves educators. Are these measurable questions? That is, how will you know that you've made a difference for students and for teachers? Can you test that and document it? Knowing why you know what you know, and putting that even in the Gantt charts--the formative assessment stages--can be useful. Keep working on these questions. Very good ones!
ReplyDeleteHi Julie,
ReplyDeleteI have recently begun to fully understand the significance of ensuring students with hearing loss receive the same information as other students. You may be able to stress this more by demonstrating the kinds of information students with hearing loss may miss if these kinds of workshops/training don't take place. Dr. Zdenek gave a really interesting seminar last May regarding the ambiguity that can be associated with closed captioning for music and sounds. Sometimes, the point is not just what is being heard, but also the background and reference. You might include some of these kinds of examples to stress the point. There are other kinds of specific instances where this kind of training would be highly beneficial. Not only when students are watching video or lecture material, but also when they are participating in any kind of hands-on activity such as laboratory instruction. Since much of the work is collaborative, the instructor would need to know how to communicate information to all of the students.