Podcasts: Dyslexia and SEL
SPP 41: Social Emotional Learning with Kyle Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvvBOOX-TI&feature=youtu.be
This podcast with special guest Kyle Carlin explained the importance of social emotional learning and provided resources and advice about how to impliment it regardless of the type of classroom environment or students you work with. Kyle Carlin defined social emotional learning as: "How we go about learning empathy, developing attitude, understanding emotions and how to control them, how to interact and read other people and their emotions and then how to develop relationships around those emotions, and also responsible decision making." Carlin explains how social emotional learning is internal and understanding why certain behaviors are required is imperative for teachers to explain to the students. He explains how it is important to know which students need what through evaluations because some students are external and will let you know but others are more internal but that does not mean they do require assistance. Evaluations are also needed to ensure that what is being done is actually working. These can be accomplished using data, screening, and then implementing. Another point he makes is that there needs to be a goal of what the teacher is trying to accomplish and when the students are ready to not need the service any more. Next the podcast moved into curriculum and Carlin suggested and explained Second Step which supplies day to day curriculum on Social Emotional Learning for busy general education teachers to utilize in their class room. The podcast finished off by talking about crisis prevention. Carlin explain how educators and schools can prevent crisis situations by creating an evironment where the students feel safe becausethey are going to a palce that is predictable and comfortable. We need to recognize truama early on be pro active in preventening negative behaviors. We can accomplish this by giving tools to our students about how to deal and cope with stress and how behaviors can impact themselves and others. Through social emotional learning students can develop these skills starting in preschool and therefore reduce future negative effects on academics and life long outcomes.
What I think is most important to take away from all of this information, advice, and these resources, is that all schools and students need this added to their curriculum. It is not just students with special needs or students from at risk homes, but everyone because everyone has emotions and everyone needs to learn how to properly handle, control, and react to their own emotions and also those around them.
All of the information presented in the episode I found to be extremely valuable and valid. I am a strong supporter of social emotional learning and this podcast enhanced how I already felt about how important it is for students. What I did not like about this episode was the actual presentation and filming of it. It was hard to understand the different people chiming in because people would lose their connection then once they regained it, want to go back about 5 minutes to add their opinion on a past topic. This made the poscast a little bit chaotic but overall, the information was useful.
Hard To Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/11/hard-to-read
Dyslexia is the most common learning disability yet so many students struggle to recieve the needed supports in order to reach their full potential in school. When learning to read phonemic awareness is key, but students with dyslexia do not have phonemic awarenss making it extremely hard to learn to recognize letters and their sounds and then blend them together. Students who were getting by, passing their classes, and getting average test scores were not recognized as needing individualized educational plans, but parents knew that this was not the full potential of their child. Students with dyslexia need specialized reading isntruction but this is expensive and one reason schools avoid using the word dyslexia. So often parents know something is wrong but schools choose to not see it. Eventually the Department of Education got involved but schools were still resistant. The podcast discusses the debate over Phonics vs. Whole Language approach to learning to read. With help from lawyers, many of these families finally got the help they needed and saw immense growth within their students and their capabilities.
My main take away from this podcast is the necessity for schools to support their teachers in supporting their students by providing all the needed tools for academic growth. If supports are too expensive, then schools should be the ones fighting for more government funds, not putting students academic potential on hold. We do not want average children; we want children to succeed and go out and make a difference in our world. I really enjoyed this podcast. They gave great examples, had extremely valid and persuasive facts, examples from history, and real life stories that illustrate the extreme pain and struggle for these kids trying to learn. Why as educators would we ever do something to block students from reaching their highest academic potential?
I think podcasts are growing because they are an easy, accessible, and great way to learn about a topic of interest from different points of views. They give examples and support with facts to bring everything together and truly make sense of the topic. As audience members we can learn and grow so much by listening to many podcasts on the same topic to find aspects that over lap and those that differ in order to formulate our own educated opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvvBOOX-TI&feature=youtu.be
This podcast with special guest Kyle Carlin explained the importance of social emotional learning and provided resources and advice about how to impliment it regardless of the type of classroom environment or students you work with. Kyle Carlin defined social emotional learning as: "How we go about learning empathy, developing attitude, understanding emotions and how to control them, how to interact and read other people and their emotions and then how to develop relationships around those emotions, and also responsible decision making." Carlin explains how social emotional learning is internal and understanding why certain behaviors are required is imperative for teachers to explain to the students. He explains how it is important to know which students need what through evaluations because some students are external and will let you know but others are more internal but that does not mean they do require assistance. Evaluations are also needed to ensure that what is being done is actually working. These can be accomplished using data, screening, and then implementing. Another point he makes is that there needs to be a goal of what the teacher is trying to accomplish and when the students are ready to not need the service any more. Next the podcast moved into curriculum and Carlin suggested and explained Second Step which supplies day to day curriculum on Social Emotional Learning for busy general education teachers to utilize in their class room. The podcast finished off by talking about crisis prevention. Carlin explain how educators and schools can prevent crisis situations by creating an evironment where the students feel safe becausethey are going to a palce that is predictable and comfortable. We need to recognize truama early on be pro active in preventening negative behaviors. We can accomplish this by giving tools to our students about how to deal and cope with stress and how behaviors can impact themselves and others. Through social emotional learning students can develop these skills starting in preschool and therefore reduce future negative effects on academics and life long outcomes.
What I think is most important to take away from all of this information, advice, and these resources, is that all schools and students need this added to their curriculum. It is not just students with special needs or students from at risk homes, but everyone because everyone has emotions and everyone needs to learn how to properly handle, control, and react to their own emotions and also those around them.
All of the information presented in the episode I found to be extremely valuable and valid. I am a strong supporter of social emotional learning and this podcast enhanced how I already felt about how important it is for students. What I did not like about this episode was the actual presentation and filming of it. It was hard to understand the different people chiming in because people would lose their connection then once they regained it, want to go back about 5 minutes to add their opinion on a past topic. This made the poscast a little bit chaotic but overall, the information was useful.
Hard To Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/11/hard-to-read
Dyslexia is the most common learning disability yet so many students struggle to recieve the needed supports in order to reach their full potential in school. When learning to read phonemic awareness is key, but students with dyslexia do not have phonemic awarenss making it extremely hard to learn to recognize letters and their sounds and then blend them together. Students who were getting by, passing their classes, and getting average test scores were not recognized as needing individualized educational plans, but parents knew that this was not the full potential of their child. Students with dyslexia need specialized reading isntruction but this is expensive and one reason schools avoid using the word dyslexia. So often parents know something is wrong but schools choose to not see it. Eventually the Department of Education got involved but schools were still resistant. The podcast discusses the debate over Phonics vs. Whole Language approach to learning to read. With help from lawyers, many of these families finally got the help they needed and saw immense growth within their students and their capabilities.
My main take away from this podcast is the necessity for schools to support their teachers in supporting their students by providing all the needed tools for academic growth. If supports are too expensive, then schools should be the ones fighting for more government funds, not putting students academic potential on hold. We do not want average children; we want children to succeed and go out and make a difference in our world. I really enjoyed this podcast. They gave great examples, had extremely valid and persuasive facts, examples from history, and real life stories that illustrate the extreme pain and struggle for these kids trying to learn. Why as educators would we ever do something to block students from reaching their highest academic potential?
I think podcasts are growing because they are an easy, accessible, and great way to learn about a topic of interest from different points of views. They give examples and support with facts to bring everything together and truly make sense of the topic. As audience members we can learn and grow so much by listening to many podcasts on the same topic to find aspects that over lap and those that differ in order to formulate our own educated opinion.
Excellent review! I especially liked how you focused in on dyslexia (a challenging and, at times, controversial topic for gen ed and special ed because it can be difficult to diagnose accurately!
ReplyDelete15/15