
L.I.T.
Leaders in Training is a mentorship program, provided in an inclusive educational environment, supporting active, compassionate lifelong learners with a global understanding, and community leadership. Students are supported, encouraged, and challenged to maximize academic and social achievements, inquiry, independence and individualized goal achievement. I.B., (International Baccalaureate). Inclusion is the acceptance, understanding and catering for students’ individual differences and diversity. It is an ongoing process that includes consistent daily collaboration with educators and students, providing access to the same routines and curriculum, encouraging participation that aims to increase access, engagement in learning and holding all students up to the highest of standards regardless of a disability.
providing access to the same routines and curriculum, encouraging participation of all students in activities done inside and outside the classroom, and holding all students up to the highest of standards regardless of a disability.
Pedagogy/Methodology
Constructivist, Collaborative, Integrative, Reflective and Inquiry Based Learning
Constructivist provides students with greater autonomy in defining and directing their own learning.
Collaboration helps to ensure children withlearning disabilities get a free appropriate public education, including specialized instruction, in a regular classroom.
Integration provides a setting where students with disabilities learn alongside peers without disabilities. Based on individualized need, ancillary services, push-in and pull-out supports are implemented.
Reflective learning allows learners to develop critical thinking skills and, improve on future performance by analysing what they have learned and how far they have come.
Inquiry-based learning is a research-based learning technique used to promote student comprehension, self-reflection, and research skills.
- https://www.buffalo.edu/catt/develop/theory/constructivism.html
- https://www.bridgewayed.com/integration-vs-inclusion/
- https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcschreyer2/21/#:~:text=Inquiry%2Dbased%20learning%20is%20a,%2Dreflection%2C%20and%20research%20skills.
- https://learningpool.com/why-reflection-encourages-a-better-learning-experience/
Communications
* Special Education & Gifted Advisory Council, (S.E.G.A.C.)-August 25, 2022;
January 26th, 2022 5:30 pm-6:00 pm
*Tutoring: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30-3:30 pm (all core subjects)
Resources
Disability Resources:
UNM Center for Disability and Development https://hsc.unm.edu/cdd/
New Mexico Autism Society https://nmautismsociety.org/
Special Olympics New Mexico https://sonm.org/
Special Olympics New Mexico (Rio Rancho) https://sonmrr.org/
New Mexico Department of Vocational Rehabilitation http://www.dvr.state.nm.us/
New Mexico Public Education Department https://webnew.ped.state.nm.us/
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ASHA
NM Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing https://www.cdhh.state.nm.us/tedp/
Gifted & Talented Resources:
National Association for Gifted Children https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources
Kimberly Romero, Special Education Director
M.A. Special Education (ASD)/General Education
romerok@corralesis.org 505-344-9733 x110

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