Alford,+Jordan

**//Hello all,//**

**//My name is Jordan Alford. I am from Athena, Oregon. I went to Oregon State University for my Bachelors degree in Human Development and Family Sciences. I took a year off of school to nanny in New York. New York was an amazing city and a wonderful experience in my life. I am currently attending Southern Oregon University earning my Masters degree in the Art of Teaching. I am in the 1-2 program and placed at Lone Pine Elementary in a first grade class. I love being outdoors, taking pictures, volleyball, arts and crafts, swimming, spending time with friends and family, and consignment shopping.//**

=__**// What is Type 1 Diabetes? How do I Improve and Help Students with Lacking Motor Skills? And How Can I Promote Healthy Lifestyle Choices? //**__=

====**My Wiki Project is based off of a student I have had. I was in a frustrating situation with a student who had type 1 diabetes. The student was amazing in the classroom, always smiling, laughing, loved to tell jokes, and excited to learn. I had noticed the student was falling behind in the course work due to; leaving the classroom constantly to get a blood check, using the restroom, feeling very tired at times, and a lack of fine and gross motor skills. This student moved slowly around the classroom and could not keep up in writing with the other students (fine motor skills; holding the pencil, scribbled most of the words) which kept the student behind in all classroom work. These characteristics of the student could be caused by type 1 diabetes or something else, but I started noticing the students diet. The student had ten wheat thins for snack, one fruit roll up and one granola bar for lunch, and when I asked him what he has for breakfast he answered "milk, cereal, and a fruit roll up". This breakfast and lunch routine was every day. I never found out what his dinner was. I know the student can only have so many carbohydrates with the amount of insulin taken. Can the family not afford to buy more insulin to match a bigger diet? Does the student refuse to eat anything else? Why is this student eating unhealthy carbohydrates? The only thought going through my head is, this student is not getting the right nutrition needed to grow. The student is petite and needs nutrients for bone and muscle growth at such an early age (1st grade). Could this be the cause of such poor motor skills? When doing research there were a couple case studies on this same situation asking the same curious questions I had. I have them labeled in the links below.**==== ====**I am not sure as a teacher where you can step in on this situation, but I have done research on Type 1 Diabetes, a lack of motor skills in the classroom, and promoting a healthy lifestyle to students and their families. It is my job as a teacher to know each of my students and to be able to help them to the best of my abilities. If you ever have a student with Type 1 Diabetes you can use some of these links to know more about it. There are resources out there to improve your classroom management, atmosphere, know the needs of the student, and to create a plan for the student with diabetes. If you come across a student who is lacking motor skills there are resources to use in the classroom showing strategies to use to improve motor skills, keep in mind these students may need more time than the others. Give them assignments first, encourage them to keep on task, and make sure they still get out to recess. Lastly, I have resources on promoting healthy life choices. It is hard to step in when you think there may be unhealthy life choices going on in your students' families lives. Promoting a healthy lifestyle in class through education will encourage the students and sending home fun suggestions for the whole family might get the attention to change to healthier choices. (This could also reach students who may be struggling from eating disorders)**====

**2. There are a few case studies showing how diabetes can have an effect on a student's educational achievement.**
====// **3. Using an activity such as yoga in the classroom not only benefits students with diabetes and their motor skills, but benefits all the students. Yoga can be relaxing, relieve stress, and help re-focus the students to their school work.** //====

// **5. Teachers can and should promote healthy life choices in the classroom. Teachers should also keep the students' families involved and aware of these healthy life choices.** //
Diabetes is a disability and it is the law we provide them with accommodations needed. This link will inform future teachers what to look for when meeting the needs of students with diabetes in your classroom. This link provides the laws students with diabetes are protected under. []

A video informing what Type 1 Diabetes is and what the symptoms look like

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A video of kids expressing they have type 1 diabetes and they are normal kids. media type="youtube" key="ypXyl-gY8LI" height="315" width="560"

[] This link discusses the causes, risk factors, treatment, and symptoms of type 1 diabetes.

[] This link is an article discussing a case study done on students with diabetes and the affects their diabetes may have on their educational achievement.

[] This link leads to another article discussing long-term complications due to young children with diabetes not getting the right nutrition.

media type="youtube" key="ZeXuf7sOpzA" height="315" width="560" This is a video of a teacher using yoga to work on motor skills in the classroom. This is not only helpful for students needing to improve their motor skills, but many students need these breaks for a variety of reasons.

[|http://www.ndep.nih.gov/publications/PublicationDetail.aspx?PubId=97&redirect=true#main] This link leads to the National Diabetes Education Program where you will find the table of contents to a book called "Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel". This link allows you to scroll through the table of contents clicking on the chapter you want to read the duties you have as a teacher in order to help your student with diabetes succeed.

[] [] These articles focuses on diet guidelines for people with diabetes. I would put these in both categories of knowing the needs of a student with diabetes and promoting healthy life choices in the classroom.

[|http://www.nedic.ca/knowthefacts/preventionhealth.shtml#families] This link leads to a variety of strategies to promote healthy life choices. The two links that I focused on were "Ideas for Educators" and "Ideas for Families".

The following video is from a website called DiabetesDietZone.com. There were many recipe videos to look at, but I used an example directed towards children. This video promotes yummy healthy food choices at home. media type="youtube" key="w6wsR__s9ls" height="355" width="425"

This is a youtube video for kids promoting FRUIT! It is a wrap video, you may show this in class when educating about a healthy life choices. media type="youtube" key="D9YAdBXv120" height="315" width="560"

This youtube video is promoting healthy food choices using the new government standards. media type="youtube" key="u7PJU8ssNeE" height="315" width="560"

The link below is continuing from the previous video to the government website, where I have clicked on the link for educators. There are resources to promoting healthy food choices in the classroom. []

I had the privilege of visiting “Dogs for the Deaf” in Central Point, Oregon. “Dogs for the Deaf” is a non-profit organization that rescues dongs from shelters and professionally trains them to help people. When walking into this facility I really didn’t know what to expect. Most trained dogs that help people with disabilities of which I have seen are seeing impaired service dogs. The seeing impaired dogs are picked out as puppies to be specially trained, where they have little social contact with other humans. I did not know all of the skills hearing impaired service dogs would have. They can hear the door bell or knock and let their owner be aware. They can hear the smoke alarm, oven timer, and any household appliance that makes noise then let their owner know. These dogs are specifically trained to make contact with their owner in order for them to understand a noise is going off in the house. These dogs are also allowed to be social inside and outside if the owner wants them to be. The Hearing Dogs are mostly smaller dogs and the bigger dogs such as labs are trained as Autism Assistance Dogs. These dogs are great companions for children with autism. They are trained to be on a leash with the autistic companion and lay down as an anchor if the autistic child is trying to run away. These dogs are comforting for most autistic children and calm them down in a time of need. They also may improve the child’s ability to communicate and bond with humans. The best part of this tour was learning that even though all rescued dogs don’t make it through the program, they will not go back to the shelter, they will be adopted.
 * Community Based Learning Project **

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