Classifying Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorders

This Post has two assignments:

1. Classifying Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorders

Resources: Ch. 7 & 9 in Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction, Does My Child Have an Emotional or Behavioral Disorder?, and Classifying EBD and ADHD at http://corptrain.phoenix.edu/axia/aed222/E1/Ex_1.htm

Complete the multimedia activity, Classifying EBD and ADHD, which demonstrates the many considerations involved with identifying emotional and behavioral disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.

Take a screen shot of your notes from the Classifying EBD and ADHD activity from your computer screen and paste it into the body of a new Microsoft® Word document.

To do this, complete the following instructions:

Press the Print Screen or Prt Scr key on the upper-right hand corner of your keyboard.

Open a new Word document.

Press Ctrl V. Your screen shot should paste directly into the body of your document.

Explain the following in a 200- to 300-word response, using Ch. 7 & 9 in Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction, Does My Child Have an Emotional or Behavioral Disorder? at http://www.pacer.org/ebd/ebdart.asp, and the notes you made during the multimedia activity as references:

What difficulties did you experienced with classifying each of the students?

What thought processes allowed you to come to your conclusions?

Why do you feel that EBD and ADHD might be difficult to define and identify?

Cite any additional resources used in APA format.

2. Special Education and the Principles of NCLB

Resource: Ch. 2 in Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction

Refer to Ch. 2 (pp. 42-45) in Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction.

Identify how each of the five core principles of NCLB strong accountability, expanded flexibility and control, methods based on scientific research, expanded options for parents, and highly qualified teachers might affect diverse learners, both positively and negatively.

Write a 350- to 700-word paper, addressing the potential pros and cons of each principle.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines, including in-text citations and a reference page if additional resources are used.