This workshop is designed to inform the
audience regarding the development of a personal philosophy for
mainstreamed education. Dozens of tenets and specific strategies
are presented. These techniques are designed to maximize the
success of the special needs child, the regular education child.and
the teacher
Among the topics covered are:
- Uses and abuses of competition in the
mainstream classroom
- Initiation of a "work ethic"
in the classroom
- The doctrine of Fairness
- Learning as a quantum experience
- Dealing with conflict
- Teaching the "hidden curriculum"
of social skills
- Multidisciplinary vs. transdisciplinary
approaches to the team meeting
Objectives:
- That the learner will be exposed to the
work of Laurence Kohlberg regarding the moral development of
school aged children
- That the learner will be provided with
a working definition of the Fairness Concept
- That the learner will be provided with
several examples of the effective application of this Concept
in the classroom
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