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 * Welcome to Barb Tews's Wiki Page!**
 * This summer I attended a course on making Wiki pages. My goal is to put helpful information onto these pages for your access: newsletters, upcoming events, interesting information, study guides, etc. Thus, by giving you my Wiki address you and your student will have access to this information.**

====**Organization:**====


 * I found this to be a beneficial video to get the students centered & focused to begin the school year. Organization is the key to starting out successfully as well as maintaining this success. Being organized is kind of like making sure your shoes are tied at all times: "If both shoes are not tied tightly" there will be constant tripping & stumbling. The students will be viewing these videos in class. To maintain consistency between home & school, your viewing these would also be benficial. If you are unable to get into these links, simply use your child's password to do so.**

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2010-2011 ePal Goal: A goal for this class year is to incorporate ePals into our Language classes.

EPals is the leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally

. Overview: What makes us who we are? In this introductory project, students will engage in a collaborative learning experience. Through email exchanges, students will build friendships and learn about the daily lives and characteristics of the local environment of students who live in another region of the world.

In order for a student to be able to discover & be motivated to apply methods that work with their learning disabiltiy, it is necessary for them to understand what a learning diability is. Just as someone has asthma, diabetes, migraines.......it is important to understand what is going on and what can be done to "make it better". I teach a unit on this topic in grade 7 reading class. Below is also an excellent resource for parents & students. We will also be reading a humorous book about a boy that has A.D.H.D.
 * __﻿What is a Learning Disability?__**
 * || Join one young man with a learning disability as you discover the challenges he faces. After studying and rereading his books, he had difficulty making more than average grades, while friends who rarely studied do much better. Although a learning disability can make life and school difficult, some of the most successful people in history struggled with learning disabilities. Difficulties in processing and analyzing information or focusing and concentrating can be overcome, as people with...

URL: @http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/learning/learning_disabilities.html

Students may bring a source of music to my class IF is school appropriate:** _ Studies show that music is indeed capable of changing the way the brain waves work, in some cases helping the brain to focus on the particular thing you are attempting to do, the brain does not really listen or tune into the lyrics, but it does listen to the melody and rythme, so if it is calm, your brain and brain waves are calm, meaning you will find it easier to do homework.

It is also proven that calm music can actually have an ever lasting effect on your short term and long term memory, so if your listening to music while studying for a big test or something like that, you will find it asier to retain your information and you will find it easier to read the information or text infront of you.

Read more: [|Does listening to music while doing homework help you think and relax better? Note: I am talking about listening to calm music | Answerbag] [] ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||