This document discusses the challenges of educating students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). It notes that understanding a student's brain after TBI is like understanding a road map, as their brain must find new routes to get to information. The document proposes an interactive website to provide teachers, parents, and individuals with TBI tools and information to alleviate frustration. It cites research recommending educators draw on student strengths and develop novel teaching approaches. The goal is to help students, parents, and teachers succeed and assist all individuals with TBI.

1. For educators,educator,and students with TBI, TBI a student with TBI, is like one word—Devastating. Pieper student has always gottenby stating “thosepoint B by taking a direct route. Now the brain needs to find an additional route to get toat ‘“losing”” the child that is very difficult, and frustrating. This website will to alleviate this parents, and Some of withways to alleviate frustrationand information. Elsa Arroyos-Jurado, Jane strategies, to dealEhly and Jeffery Max stated it best that, with the design of an do educators need towith practical research-based they also strategies, that
As an parents, understanding the brain of can be translated into just understanding a road map. The in 2001 best described it from point A to experiencing traumatic brain injury (TBI) is that they often express frustration and pain the same place, and they knew.” (p 5). The purpose of this project is to try assist teachers, frustration. persons the TBI, by giving them tools are to acquire information, knowledge, and Paulsen, Stewart with issues. This project does just as an educator “Not only interactive website, draw on student’s strengths, learning need to come
demonstrate and model effective toolslearning strategies.” (2001,p.137). This project is based on this statement. Each of the strategies that are used and will be used are novel approaches for each individual person. This project’s goal is to assist the student, parent and teacher to be successful in educating themselves and others and to assist all persons who suffer from TBI.
up with novel approaches to teaching for working with students with TBI.
Results Website! Conclusions
As an educator, understanding the brain of a student with TBI, is
like understanding a road map. The student has always gotten
from point A to point B by taking a direct route. Now the brain
needs to find an additional route to get to the same place, and
that is very difficult, and frustrating. This website will assist
teachers, parents, and persons with TBI, by giving them tools and
information.
Greaphic Organizers
Elsa Arroyos-Jurado, Jane Paulsen, Stewart Ehly and Jeffery
Max stated it best as an educator “Not only do educators need to
draw on student’s strengths, they also need to come up with
novel approaches to teaching learning strategies.” (2001,p.137).
This project is based on this statement. Each of the strategies
that are used and will be used are novel approaches for each
individual person. This project’s goal is to assist the student,
Manipulatives parent and teacher to be successful in educating themselves and
Ratios others and to assist all persons who suffer from TBI.
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Special Thank you
To L. Michael Bouyer
for all your support and artistic help
with the videography and faith in this
project