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F A T City Guided Notes
F A T City Guided Notes
F A T City Guided Notes
by Richard Lavoie
F.A.T. City
Frustration
Anxiety
Tension
Processing:
Name 2 ways delayed processing effects a students performance
1. They feel too much pressure to answer the question
2. They feel like they are holding up the calss
Risk Taking:
Name 2 ways you as a teacher can reduce the fear of academic risk-taking during class.
1. Tell your shy students that you will only call on them if you are standing next to them
2.
Visual Perception:
A) What do teachers often do when a child cannot do academic tasks students say they cannot do?
1. Tell them to look at it harder
2. Take things away What is the picture? A cow
Reading Comprehension:
What is necessary for children to be able to comprehend?
1. Direct instruction
2. Vocabulary
Effect of Visual Perception:
List 2 tasks that are difficult for children with learning / mild disabilities.
1. Knowing what they did wrong Write a title for the picture.
Vanity
Cognitive Processing:
Explain the difference between an associative and a cognitive processing.
1. Associative Process / Activity is activities where you can do more than one at a time.
2. Cognitive Process / Activity is something that requires your full attention.
What are the two lessons when the group is telling a story?
1. Very quick to turn each other in
2. It is hard to talk with dysnomia
Auditory / Visual Learners:
List two examples of problems or struggles associated with auditory vs visual learners:
1.
2.
Fairness:
What does fairness mean?
Paragraph Reflection:
F.A.T. City Workshop
I really enjoyed watching this workshop. I thought it was cool that this is something people cared
about even back in the 80s and it was interesting to see how they talked about things a little differently
back then. Like person first language apparently hadnt been invented yet, so it made me cringe to
hear things like LD child even though I knew they didnt mean it in a hurtful way. It did make me
happy to see though that so many people had come together to learn about students with disabilities and