In the movie by Rick Lavoie, "How Difficult Can This Be? (The FAT city Workshop)", they gathered a range of professionals coming from social work to teachers to discuss and see how it would be to be a learning disabled child. This movie was very eye opening, because you get to see and feel how difficult it is to have a learning disable. I think that all teachers should have to go threw a workshop like this so that they understand how it feels to have a learning disable.
FAT stands for Frustration Anxiety and Tension. These three words express the emotions that learning disabled children often feel when learning. I also thought it was interesting how LD students often don't know why they are getting in trouble or what they are doing wrong and when they say "I didn't do anything wrong", they actually mean it. This video showed its not that LD students don't want to succeed but rather they have troubles focusing. Overall this video was a huge eye opener and gave teachers tips to handle certain situations with these students.
As a future teacher I am nervous to have these children in my classroom because I won't always no how to handle certain situations, but thats the job of a teacher and practise will help. At the same time I am also excited to be able to teach these students to help them succeed and show that they can and do have a bright future ahead of them.
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