Research Study of Mild General Learning Disabilities

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To introduce this task I wish to firstly identify the material I chose to research for my research role in this assignment. I chose to undertake a research study of Mild General Learning Disabilities (MGLD) to find out more information on what exactly it is, how it affects students and what can be done to fully include these students in our classrooms. This role allowed me to take a deeper look at what exactly my assumptions were relating to this and how I was going to change them given the evidence I had discovered. By embracing this I learned about my assumptions and about my own educational theory and how it changed throughout the course of the research.
Throughout this assignment I wish to investigate my Assumptions, categorise and examine them to clarify where my thoughts on teaching are coming from. This will be imperative if I am to get a true understanding for the direction in which my teaching has taken. I aim to do this through the use of critical reflection, something I will discuss later in this piece.
The objectives of this assignment are to firstly reflect on our practise and the assumptions associated with them and generate a deeper understanding as to where these assumptions come from. We must then look at the teachers’ role as a professional. Recognition as a professional is something the teaching profession is striving to achieve; therefore we must look at the implications for such desires. Then in taking this information on board I aim to outline what this will mean to me as a newly qualified teacher and what the consequences will be for my future practise.
On first encountering this topic of becoming a critically reflective teacher I had to seek a meaning for the term. And quite frankly it was a topic I st...

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