EDUC560

EDUC560

Creating a Poster is What We Have First Learn in This          Course:"Integrating Technology into Education"

• How to make a poster was our first step :

       * First of all we have to know that in our poster we are putting months and years of research , we are creating a short story that is limited in 250 words and describes a few major points that will arouse the readers interest.

       * Second, we should use " Microsoft PowerPoint presentation"  considering that it's easy to use, inflexible, and already designed for overhead projection.

        *Third,in a poster we have to:

• Leave breathing space around text
• Plain fonts
• Same size and styles
• Putting the most important parts first
• Be short and to the point
• The text has to be easy for the eye to follow 

      *Don't forget that your text size should be:

• Title: 85
• Authors: 56
• Subheadings: 36
• Body text: 24
• Captions: 18                                                        

•  Getting your research and arranging your ideas is your second step:

  My research was talking about dysfunctional families and emotional problems and that was my main points:
  
  
  
  
  What are Dysfunctional families?
  Dysfunctional families label healthy families in certain periods of time. The normal functioning of the family is interrupted by stressful circumstances such as a death in the family, divorce, sickness, abuse, violence, etc.
  To understand what goes wrong in a dysfunctional family, you should first understand what a healthy family is.
   Healthy families:
  Healthy families are not “Perfect”. They may be yelling, misunderstanding, hurting, and bickering but not all the time.
  What distinguish healthy families from dysfunctional families are the following:
  ·         Emotional expression in healthy families is allowed and accepted.
  ·         Rules are explicit and consistency is present with some flexibility.
  ·         Healthy families allow for individuality and responsibility.
  ·         Children are respected and don’t fear emotional, verbal, physical, or sexual abuse.
  What goes wrong in dysfunctional families?
  ·         Deficient parents:  are parents suffering from chronic physical or mental illness that leads to their inability to take care of their children. Consequently, children play the role of their parents’ caretakers. Children are robbed of their childhood and they ignore their own needs and feelings.
  ·         Controlling parents:  they fail to allow their children to assume responsibilities appropriate to their age. These parents are often driven by a fear of becoming unnecessary to their children. Thus, such kids grow up feeling resentful, inadequate, and powerless.
  ·         Alcoholic parents: they tend to be chaotic and unpredictable; rules that apply one day don’t apply the next.  Promises are neither kept nor remembered and family problems are usually kept secret thus preventing children from seeking help.
  ·         Abusive parents:  “the infliction of physical injuries such as bruises, burns, welts, cuts, bone or skull fractures that are mainly caused by kicking, punching, biting, beating, knifing, strapping, paddling, etc. Abuse could be verbal, physical or sexual and physically abusive parents can create an environment of terror for the child. 
  Abused children often feel angry and have difficulties developing feeling of trust and safety.
  An important part to discuss is the sexual abuse and its effects on children. Sexual abuse can be any physical contact between an adult and child where that contact must be kept secret.   Hugging, kissing, or stroking a child’s hair is not considered a sexual.
  Most sexually abused children are too frightened of the consequences for themselves and their families to risk telling another adult what is happening. As a result, they grow into adulthood carrying feeling of self-loathing-shame and worthlessness.
  
  
  
  
   How to overcome the effects of dysfunctional families?
  ·         Get help; talk to someone you trust.
  ·         Learn to identify and express emotions.
  ·         Allow yourself to feel angry about what happened.
  ·         Learn to trust others
  ·         Practice taking good care of yourself.
  ·         Begin to change your relationship with your family.
  
  
                                                     
  
  
  Dysfunctional families lead to emotional problems in students.  How can the teacher spot these problems?
  Emotional or behavioral disorder: (EBD)
  Refers to a condition in which behavioral or emotional responses of an individual in school are so different from his/her generally accepted age appropriate ethnic or cultural norms that they adversely affect performance in such areas as self-care, social relationships, personal adjustments, academic progress, classroom behavior, or work adjustment. Children with behavioral disorders may throw frequent and extended tantrums hurt themselves or others get involved in criminal activities, lie, smoke, use alcohol or drugs, are openly defiant, or engage in early sexual activity. They may skip or fail school. They also have a higher than average risk of suicide.    
  Causes of emotional and behavioral disorder:
  Family history of mental illness or substance abuse, exposure to tobacco or illicit drugs during fetal development, abuse, stress, lack of supervision, and inconsistent but harsh discipline might all cause emotional and behavioral disorder. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a major cause of such behavioral abnormality.
  Children with emotional or behavioral problems exhibit externalizing and internalizing abnormal behaviors leading to low academic achievement and social problems.
  Externalizing Behaviors:
  ·         Get out of their seats.
  ·         Yell, talk out, and curse.
  ·         Disturb peers.
  ·         Hit or fight.
  ·         Ignore the teacher.
  ·         Complain.
  ·         Argue excessively.
  ·         Steal.
  ·         Lie.
  ·         Destroy property.
  ·         Do not follow directions.
  ·         Have temper tantrums.
  ·         Don’t complete assignments.
  Internalized behaviors
  • Such students can’t learn and their inability cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health problems.
  • These children are in able to build a healthy interpersonal relationship with their peers and their teachers.
  • They act abnormal in normal conditions and circumstances.
  • Always feeling unhappy or depressed even in happy moments.
  ·         They have tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
  Ways that teachers can help their students:
  ·         Learn more about the specific emotional disturbance: such as depression will help you support the students’ education in individualized, informed and effective ways. 
  ·         Learn more about the students’ strengths too: skills, talents, and personal interests are tools in your hand to shape your instructions and create opportunities for success.
  ·         Remember they are kids first: they are not scary, dangerous or aggressive. They need your support and affection.
  ·         Support the students’ inclusion: this can be done through cooperative learning activities, peer interactions and projects to help them build secure interpersonal relationships.
  ·         Set clear behavioral rules and expectations for the entire class: students with emotional problems are the targets of other students’ misbehavior. Clear and explicit instructions and classroom management plans provide a solid structure by which both teacher and students can address inappropriate behavior.
  ·         Communicate with the students’ parents: parents are a great source of information of their children. They can keep you informed as to event and developments to their children’s life. You can even agree with them in case of the necessity of medication.
  
  

• for sure i remembered that images and graphs say much more than words so i put some pictures in my poster.

• after finishing the poster don't forget to put your contact info :  name, email...

• Finally...a poster is sometimes better than a talk.