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Assessment: Student Prompts/Teacher Directions

1) Individual: LD: The Puzzling Paradox (Benchmark Assessment)

a) General practicum information:

i) Students’ practicum experiences should follow the practicum experience requirements, including the diversity and hour requirements for this course on the Practicum Placement Form.

ii) Students should fill out the Practicum Placement Form and Observation Record. Complete the form with the names of the schools and grade levels where the observations took place and document the hours spent in the classroom. Submit the form to the course instructor along with your Benchmark Assessment.

iii) Spend 15 hours in a setting that serves a student with a learning disability. This setting can be resource room or a regular educational setting in which the student is mainstreamed.

b) Benchmark Assessment:

i) Part 1: Research the following questions using the GCU eLibrary and the Internet:

(1) What is a learning disability? (Locate 2-3 definitions/explanations)

(2) How do individuals with learning disabilities process information? What are challenges related to how these individuals process information?

ii) Part 2: Identify a student who has a learning disability and answer the following questions:

(1) In which academic area(s) does the student struggle?

(2) In which academic area(s) does the student have strengths?

(3) How does the student’s disability influence ability to socially interact with others (social skills)?

iii) Part 3: Identify one area in which the student academically struggles.

(1) Choose one skill you will teach the student using a learning strategy. Note: this strategy must be generalizable and have less than 7 steps. Write a lesson plan following these steps based on Hunter’s model:

(a) Learning objective (make sure you indicate the state and national standard related to this objective).

(b) Pre-requisite skills needed in relation to this objective.

(c) Pre-requisite skills the student currently...