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Guiding Questions:
What does self-advocacy mean and what is the goal?
Why is self-advocacy so important for students with learning disabilities?
Understanding
Self-Advocacy
Partnered Drawing
You will be assigned a partner. As a pair you must decide who is the communicator and who is the recorder. Your task as the communicator will be to instruct your partner to drae the picture the teacher has supplied. Your partner will only be listening to you and will be unable to see the drawing so your directions are all he/she has to work with. Good Luck!
Examine the Digital Storybook below. As you are reading keep in mind the following questions:
1. How should Jerry tell his family?
2. What is self-advocacy?
Why was it so important for Jerry to tell his family?
As a class let's create a 60 second script that Jerry can follow to help him tell his family. Once we have created this script, we can create our definition of self-advocacy.
As you watch the following video, please note the various consequences of refusing to engage in conflict resolution (a form of self-advocacy). Once the video is complete we will discuss why these are potential consequences.
In pairs, you are tasked with creating at least four "self-advocacy scenarios". Please write the 2-3 sentence scenario on the index cards provided, and remember to make them as true to reality as possible.
Round Table Takeaway:
As we stand in a circle, each person must identify one aspect of the lesson that is their "takeaway" and explain why it was significant to them (please make a personal connection to the class material in your explaination)
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