Stages of development v. Common Core Standards v. Curriculum
Scope and Sequence v. hierarchy of skills – which are important when teaching
students with a hearing loss?
I believe all of these stages, standards, and skills are
important to consider when teaching students with a hearing loss. There are a variety of skills within all of
these. I believe it depends on the
students and where they are developing within their academics. Although these cannot exactly predict where a
child with a hearing loss should be performing and where areas improvement is needed,
it is good to have some sort of guidelines.
It is important to have an idea of what the child should be learning and
how they should be performing according to their grade level. A child has to start somewhere. I believe the hierarchy of skills is one way
to discover what skills a student should be focused on. In many cases a student
needs to accomplish lower level skills in order to advance into higher level
ones. It is necessary that we make sure
the students have these skills in order to be successful in the future.
Overall, teachers of the deaf and hard of
hearing need to be aware of skills that are not yet mastered and work towards
providing the child with instruction in order for them to gain those skills. My
focus will be on making sure my students acquire the necessary skills in order
to move on the next skill. I want to
push my students to see what they can do beyond their grade level as well.
Lauren,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that all of these components are important to consider when teaching students with a hearing loss. One component is not more important than the other, all of them used together will ensure the best guidance for the student in their academic success. I like how you mentioned that the components cannot predict exactly where a child with a hearing loss should be performing at, but will give you some guidelines and goals for the student to meet over the course of the school year. Like you said a student must accomplish the easier skill levels and show mastery of those skills before moving on to the more advanced and challenging skills. As we have discussed in many of our previous courses; as future deaf educators we want to push our students to be confident in their educational courses. It will be important for us to challenge our students and set high expectations for them as they learn in a mainstream setting with their hearing peers. As you mentioned we need to make note and be aware of the skills are students are not able to meet and focus more instruction around those competencies. Great post!