After watching the videos on Vision and Hearing, describe how this information impacts you as a teacher.
Understanding the development of vision and hearing helps me to know as an educator ways to foster their development. Paying attentions to the warning signs and now understanding the different clues will help me to be more astute in detecting problems early on. One thing I learned this week was that even though problems with vision and hearing may be fixed, the brain does not necessarily adjust back to before. The brain can almost be trained to see or hear incorrectly, and then it is very difficult to make progress.
In my classroom, I also want to provide diverse exposures for students that improve their visual and auditory skills. I am going to make sure that the noises in my classroom are neither loud or repetitive. I wonder though, I work with English Language Learners, and there is a lot of repetition. Can I repeat concepts and vocabulary but with different intonation?
I would think it would be okay to use different intonations with English Language Learners. As long as it wasn't so different it was difficult for them to understand. Even talking softer can be an attention getter :)
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