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BUILDING AND ENHANCING NEW LITERACIES ACROSS CURRICULUM
Name: VILLARALBO EDUARD. Date: FEBRUARY 15,2024
Course and Major: BPE 2Q Instructor: EMMANUEL NICO N. CRONICO, MA
GUIDE QUESTIONS FOR THE MOVIE “EVERY CHILD IS SPECIAL”
1. Who is Ishaan Awasthi? Describe his hobbies and experiences as a son nd as a
learner with special needs.
Answer:
Ishaan Awasthi, is an eight years old boy who suffers from dyslexia, a neurological
disorder. Unlike other normal children, he has a learning disability; he has difficulty in
reading and writing. The letters and numbers were written inverted and words are
commonly misspelled. He cannot follow multiple instructions and has poor motor skills.
Most of the people thought of him as dumb, idiot and lazy trouble maker but in fact his
world is filled with wonders that no one else can appreciate. Ishaan loves painting and
drawing, his mind is very creative and imaginative and his concept of art is truly
remarkable. However because his parent’s gives tension to him, anyone did not try to
understand him and anyone does not want to know what he wants that’s why he is always
unhappy especially when he moved out to the boarding school.
2. What made him different from other learners?
3. What is Ishaan’s case? What are the specific manifestations of this case based on the
film? How is it managed?
answer:
Ishaan has a reading disability called dyslexia. He experienced difficulty in learning
especially in reading, writing and spelling. He tend to confuse the order of the letters and
writing the letters the wrong way. For example instead of b, he wrote d. His spellings are
also inconsistent and also had trouble in understanding instructions especially in the
sequence and order of directions. At first. Ishaan’s parents and teachers doesn’t really
know his condition and treated him as if he just a stupid, lazy, and misbehaved child. But
through Ram’s efforts and patience, Ishaan developed gradually.
4. Who is Ram Nikumbh? How did he influence Ishaan? Bhow was he different from
other teachers?
Answer:
Ram Nikumbh is the new art teacher in the new school of Ishaan. Unlike other teacher who
is strict and conserve to their thought that every child should compete, succeed and make a
future, Ram is a teacher who appreciates and thinks that every child is special and must
have a chance to enjoy his/her school days. Ishaan’s other teacher thought that he should
be dealt in special education program not in the mainstream. But Ram insisted that even a
special child has the right for formal education. Ram observes that Ishaan is unhappy and
contribute little to class activities; he reviews all the class work of Ishaan and finds out the
causes of his academic shortcomings is because he is having dyslexia. He attempts to help
Ishaan, so in the class Ram shows different personalities like Einstein, Edison, Da Vinci and
other personalities who struggle for recognizing letters and numbers. He shows to Ishaan
that his case is not so different from other people; he just needs to appreciate and improve
himself. Ram used remedial techniques to improve Ishaan’s reading and writing. Ishaan’s
soon develop an interest to language and mathematics and his grades improve.
5. How did Ram manage Ishanaa’s case? How did Ishaan’s parents treat him?
6. As a teacher, how will you handle students like Ishaan?
7. How is special and inclusive education depicted in the film? Cite specific scenarios.
Answer
Cite specific scenarios. Special education was seen in the movie through Ram’s other
workplace which is Tulips School. All of the students there had disabilities. While inclusive
education is seen in Ishaan’s school where normal and students with disabilities had one
setting. For example, Rajan, a physically disabled boy who go to the same school as Ishaan
spend his time in school with the non-special needs students. It was also mentioned in the
movie when Ram go to the principal’s office to disclose Ishaan’s case the Education for All
Policy. A policy that orders schools to give a quality education to all students.
8. How is “Every Child is Special” depicted in the film?
9. What makes every child special?
10. What are your realizations after watching the film?
As a future educator, this is a challenging task and role for us to handle learners like Ishaan.
Though it may be a hard task to us teachers but when we take every step to help them, all
our efforts will be worth it. Our realizations after watching the film is every child has
individual differences and needs. It is important for us to understand that our learners are
diverse and some of them have special needs. It is our job to incorporate strategies and
methods to help our learners to better understand the lessons. We should also be creative
in our lessons in a way that will cater the needs of every learner. Understanding that every
learner has different pace of learning and level of understanding is essential because this
can make us sensitive and responsive to their special needs. In addition, criticisms and
prejudices should be discouraged for the learners to overcome their difficulties. As a
teacher, we should put in our mind that being a teacher is a mission not just a job.
