F.A.T. City Workshop: How Difficult Can This Be?

by Richard Lavoie

F.A.T. City
Frustration
Anxiety
Tension

Processing:
Name 2 ways delayed processing effects a students performance
1. the students will become distracted and focus on everything.
2. They process the question a lot longer than it take other students; other students just process
the answer.

Risk Taking:
Name 2 ways you as a teacher can reduce the fear of academic risk-taking during class.
1. if the student get the answer wrong dont embarrass them.
2. give verbal reinforcement (good job)
Visual Perception:
A) What do teachers often do when a child cannot do academic tasks students say they cannot
do?
1. tells student to look harder
What is the picture?
2. teacher promise something if they can figure it
out Cow face
3. Begin taking things away from the student
4. Blaming the victim (student not trying hard enough/
no motivation)
B) What is the difference between seeing & perceiving?
1. Seeing is seeing but not understand it.

2. Perception is the process of being aware of something

Reading Comprehension:
What is necessary for children to be able to comprehend?
1. Background/ prior knowledge
2. Direct instruction

Effect of Visual Perception:

List 2 tasks that are difficult for children with learning / mild
disabilities. Write a title for the picture.

1. Knowing what they did wrong

Moon night skull

2. writing and reading

Cognitive Processing:
Explain the difference between an associative and a cognitive processing.
1. Associative Process: is you can do more than one thing at a time (multitasking)
2. Cognitive Process: is you can only do one at a times (can only listen and not take notes at the
same times)

What are the two lessons when the group is telling a story?
1. Show that students with LD and the cognitive difficult way it is for them to talk
2. Give students time
Auditory / Visual Learners:
List two examples of problems or struggles associated with auditory vs visual learners:
1. change letters around
2. too much time decoding, so they dont comprehend what they just read.

Fairness:
What does fairness mean?
Everyone does not get the same it means everyone gets what he or she needs.
Paragraph Reflection:
I saw clips of this movie a long time ago, and at the time I wanted to see the whole
movie. I really liked this movie it opened my eyes to see what students with a learning disability
really goes through. Growing up there was a student in my class who had a learning disability (at
the time I didnt know), and every time the teacher would call on him to read my reaction was
always an ugh or why call on him he cant read. Every time he would get a word wrong the
whole class would just laugh at him, and the teacher never did anything about it; she would just
let us laugh at this kid. This movie made me look back on my childhood and think about the
things that my teachers did and handled situations. Especially with the look harder I heard that
a lot growing up. I have used that on my kiddos at work! I never even thought about what that
even means, and I have used the rhetorical questions on them (I have one kid that ALWAYS
answers them). There is a lot of things that I do now that I didnt even realize I do, until I saw
this video. Real big eye opener this video was.