More Fun with Learning Barriers!

In this video, we can see students dealing with social emotional developmental barriers. We can see in certain students that they appear to be more withdrawn or shy in their group. You can also see so having reduced selfconfidence in their ability. Some also seem to be having some problems with self-control (Interruption and talking over their group members)

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An example of an learning barrier was the interruption during the teacher having a small group discussion with her students.

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In the video Analyzing Properties of Light Using Scientific and Mathematical Discourse, one student in this class is experiencing a social and emotional learning barrier due to trauma following the unexpected loss of his father the previous year (Atlas, nd). As a result of his trauma, he frequently misses school and has struggled socially and academically.

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After watching the video titled Analyzing Social Issues in Small Group Book Club Discussion and reading the notes provided by the teacher, I know there is one student with autism in the class. The teacher states that this student tends to be opinionated and gets worked up easily. This tracks with the characteristics of autism in that these students tend to be passionate, sometimes with narrow interests and ways of thinking. They also tend to be awkward in their social interactions.

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One barrier is expressive language disorder. Expressive language disorder is when a student has trouble speaking or writing their thoughts. They may be a little more reserved and avoid talking to people until they know them well, have reduced vocabulary, or have difficulty with having a conversation with others.

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While observing the video titled “Using Discourse to Support Students' Understanding of Multiplying Fractions”, the Learning barrier that i witnessed was that of two English Language Learners (ELL). These two students are described as having “very limited English reading and writing skills.” This barrier can and will put extra stress on the educator.

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Most of the children in this class are fluent in English except for one and that student is an English Language Learner (ELL). There are no students in this class that have IEPs (students with learning disabilities). There are some behavior issues of the students in this classroom. For example, one student spent a week in school suspension and the boys will not focus together, so they need to be moved (Acrobatiq, 2017).

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In the video, Using Discourse to Support Student Understanding of Multiplying Fractions, one learning barrier that the students face is understanding and explaining abstract concepts, in this example it would be fractions.

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There is a learning barrier with most middle school kids in this age group I feel. I found while watching this video there was a child that simply stated “I don’t know”. This could have been a fear of failing to say the correct answer or possibly be a self esteem issue as well.

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I did observe a few learning barriers. A cognitive development barrier is one example. Students had difficulty with remembering all the instructions and this was addressed by one student being given the role of a discussion leader and that student was also given a visual or a discussion card when they reached a certain step in their activity to remember what to do next.  I believe a social and emotional barrier was potentially addressed as well. There were some students during the video that were confident and asking the teacher questions when she came to their table to check on their progress, while other students seemed shy and hesitant to speak.

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