Week 2 Assignment 4

I choose choice A. Yes i definitely agree that using Integrative medicine can be very beneficial to society. when a person visits a doctor, instead of focusing on one aspect that may be bothering the person, the patient is examined as a whole person - taking into account all possibilities that may be affecting the person. I think using integrative medicine is great!!!


The same is true when teaching children and education. A teacher has to take into account a student's strengths and weaknesses, interests and family background. Appropriate instruction directed to the students can only be achieved when the teacher understands the student in all areas.When assessing a student the teacher should ensure that all aspects of literacy are evaluated so that appropriate intervention and lesson planning can occur. This includes understanding the students level of performance in decoding, word recognition, phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension. Discovering how a student spends his free time after school hours is also important to inform instruction, regarding what texts he would be interested in and what activities he would want to participate in.


The Smile Program - using question and answer forum is a great educational tool. Teachers and students can post inquiry based questions that will increase student participation throughout all content areas. Students will be proactive during the lessons to think of questions to send to their peers and the students will answer the questions through this program. The SMILE program has proved to be a great tool in increasing student questioning and using the media to include online sources to their thoughts on the question posed.

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