Foundations of Education Lesson 4: Homework Worksheet• How have you found that family influences impact learning of your students? (If you are not currently teaching, share how you have found that family influences have impacted learning in your own or others' school experiences.) I have been fortunate that most families in my students have had positive impacts on their education (or at the very least, a neutral impact). Most of the families I dealt with were involved in their children's schooling and had a supportive influence on homework and other tasks. I found very few “helicopter parents” among our population, which surprised me given the high socio-economic level of all of our students. My school has also done a very good job of managing these kinds of parental expectations, with a paragraph written by each teacher included in each student's report card. Thus, most parents felt “in the know” and did not insist on inappropriate access for themselves or inappropriate protection/preference for their children. Private school students are not likely to face parents who devalue education (obviously parents value it at more than $10,000 per year), but family income level is not protective children from other potentially negative influences – emotionally abusive families, parents with drug or alcohol problems or other illnesses, parents going through a divorce, etc. are still common in all areas. SES level. We had two sisters from a family where the mother had died and the father had remarried; neither he nor his new wife wanted anything to do with girls. So they created a trust fund for them and sent them to boarding school. The girls, like typical teenagers, tried to pretend the situation...... middle of paper ...... that students with disabilities have to overcome in class? What observations can you make about the problem-solving skills, learning strategies, and dedication to effort that a student with a disability might need to succeed in your classroom? How can you reinforce or help your students develop these skills and strategies? I tried the blindfold and tracing experiments; I found myself using other senses to compensate. Students with disabilities will certainly need to use their other senses and other modes of learning to work with the material. The teaching techniques I would use would certainly depend on the students' disability, but in general, teaching strategies that benefit students with disabilities often benefit the class as a whole – using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic styles, scaffolding, and the use of metacognitive strategies. and others.