Teaching and Learning Issues Within a Cognitive Context

To create your Final Project, you will choose one of the groups or issues below to address a current issue in education.

• Describe the issue, being sure to identify the relevant age and/or grade levels.
• Explain why the issue poses a problem or concern, being sure to address human development and cognitive processes.  
• Discuss at least one innovative teaching and/or learning strategy to address this issue, including justification from brain research. 

Choose one of the following issues or groups:

• The distressed/stressed learner
• Poverty, homelessness, and hunger
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• ADD/ADHD
• Single gender classrooms
• Supporting alternative learning behaviors
• Hearing loss
• Speech and language delay
• Early language development and literacy 
• Adolescent language development and literacy