Deaf School vs Mainstream - What Are The Differences Between Deaf Schools And Mainstream Schools

hi my name is Ashley Clark Rae and I'm very excited to share this video with you this video is a short tour of a school for the deaf and the video explains what a deaf schools like versus a mainstream program I want to provide a creative resource for hearing parents of deaf children to share information and help them make informed decisions for their deaf child I hope you enjoy this video hello are you ready hi there i'm here at the cal death in Fremont California you let's go have a tour let's go I'm gonna meet with the tour guide who will provide us a tour of the campus hi there how are you I'm great my name is Ashley and you are yes hi there my name is Jack and I'm the outreach here for the school resource coordinator welcome to CSD thank you so much I'm so excited it tore the school great let's go we'll go wrong this way this is a great place going to show you all the different departments we have here and so they're doing the remodeling here is beautiful I'll show you our early my old hood education center this is where its infant to five so zero to five with her infant and toddler programs its older three it's in this school district only meaning that if you should live in Oakland or another city not far from here they unfortunately can't come to the ODA three program this is only for this district it's a beautiful concept I'm hoping this will be adopted and grow however this is just for our local program now from three to five anywhere in the state can come question for you can anyone out state come in no they cannot no you must be in the state of California to come here we cover a perimeter here how far I would say we go well depending if students are from Sacramento from Eureka which is the very top of the state of California oh I'd say about you know five hours from here however they could fly in and stay in the dormitories however you must be five years old or in kindergarten to do so to live on campus however we don't have many parents that do that because you know they value their children being at home and living in the dormitory that young age or what we call the cottages here however we welcome anyone from three from anywhere within the Northern California area from Bakersfield well I'd say San Luis Obispo actually all the way up to Eureka and south of Bakersfield will be covered by Riverside we cover the Northern California so let's go as you can see here I want to point out the sign to you this is good for signing all the time typically when we give to I always stop and point this out many hearing people that come here with those national or international folks who come those who are studying curriculum or just doing general studies you know hearing ASL students hearing classes deaf mainstream students teachers and the life a whole variety people come here I mentioned the sign to them they realize you know that this is right in a hearing environment they all you'll have it we're hearing people will be speaking and children can listen and hear what's going on and they may hear some things and some things will filter out and not care about the same would apply here we want everyone hearing or deaf to be signing whether you barely sign and don't sign well like those are our food services or in our our maintenance department but anyone we're very strict with our hiring hearing people that must have signing skills we want everyone here to sign so children have access to full information some kids may choose to ignore something but again it's not about a policy it is a culture here at the school yeah I even have one hearing teacher who has ASL in them and signing and they don't use their voice here and they went to a different School for the Deaf and it's very interesting the mainstream you think that might happen at a different school for the deaf no voicing but other schools another hearing teachers saying you know that's fine we're hearing it's not a big deal you can you know turn your voice on and you know this teacher is like no you can't because really it's ingrained in them it's the idea of the CSD culture of no voicing and that really makes us unique it's just wonderful it's a signing environment exclusively we've had other group programs and needs here we've been grown soon so much a little bit of overlap going on here you know at this facility we hosted a summit a couple of years ago and our topic and our theme was anti biased education so here's some of the tenets of that yes all individuals that's correct we celebrate all our teachers here really spiral that concept and we have that it's an inclusive concept we unpack our own privileges our own we know we're white we have education you know making sure that our books here are culturally appropriate and inclusive you know making sure you with a diverse group of children in our ASL sign sometimes will sign mother and father like mom and dad well that's not always true what if some of those with Grandma or with grandpa or uncles or they have two mothers or two fathers so we've changed it to say family pictures that we have up on the wall they're not just white people we have a diverse group of people here so our children can feel connected saying hey that's like me and that was like me it's very very powerful it's very important here we're always celebrating all for example for coming to holidays we celebrate in different ways we do that via lights not just with Christmas exclusively we celebrate all holidays so all the children know everything with different cultures and a light festival so that's very important here as we work with this anti biased education you I want to take this opportunity here and introduce you to our kindergarten teacher here at CSD she'll explain to you how the kids um are bilingual have ASL and English as part of their methods and tools of learning this is Joan and she'll give you more detail hi there American Sign Language is our children's first language obviously they know sign now equating that back to English well here's a good for instance the sign for mother so this is head for mom so looking for the sign mom we're looking at where it's signed on the face or what position on the body any signs on this general region here we're looking for words that fit that regional sign on the body and here is mom no they take the mom piece here and write the word M om mom making that connection from ASL the sign for mom and the print English that's a wonderful writing tool it really helps their writing it empowers them to be independent grab the words and make and write the words down themselves in English question how did you start this and recognized this was an effective process I remember you explaining there's a variety of different methods that have been used and this seems to be something that really took off yeah um we use the things based on letters there's the a letters the B letters etc and you know mom this is a the five handshape but it wasn't working so we backed up we started looking at you know different parts of the body you know like in children's classes you'll do a little dance with the hand shapes and where they go why don't we group things by where the signs are categorized and used another team teacher of mine ah Leila Holcomb really come up with an idea and we started taking off with it it was so effective our students felt so empowered they really word had good self-esteem with us and he'll rather than being a for Apple that wasn't effective for our children and so it's based on where the sign is done now looking at that there's different categories and where this exists there's the forehead the top of the head region like the sign for dad deer etc okay next one here is the sign here like mom eat orange you know that's where those signs are located this isn't you Nora Chester body sounds like the word sign for like love happy are all signed in this general region next year are things you do on there touch science contact signs on your hands like school work then we have here that are spatial signs play go want are done here and this is a new category recently added our fingerspelled science some words don't have a sign there fingerspelled go bus ice that kind of sign so that's that category I'm wondering with education now compared to 20 years ago how is it different oh it's a huge difference um we focus more on the teaching methods you know we're talking about a hundred and fifty seven years of education here as you think about this school it'll is it fairly new this is actually our third campus so actually should our fourth campus we had two campuses in San Francisco and then we moved over to Berkeley and we're in Berkeley there for a long time over a hundred years and I moved here in 1980 and so we've gone through a variety of different teaching methods and approaches using different tools and modifying them looking at graduation rates percentage of success and I'd say the last you know this bilingual bicultural approach I would say about thirty years now yes since 1990 almost thirty years and we've noticed that teachers are real adopted both language trainings on how ASL was used and taught and instructional how it's used in writing and again obviously there's this oh you can go by of course by all means you know how do teachers teach they sign they write how do you expand on my concepts and ideas and be bilingual and over the last twenty years we've really applied that and we have an ASL specialist here to work with our teachers on different methods of instruction and writing through American Sign Language so that's where the teachers are really incorporated this into their training and applying this to their teaching and helping our students achieve so yes the last 30 years have been very sophisticated with ASL with curriculum standards you know ASL seen as a curriculum have already passed that's been done that's the Laurent Clerc put that out yes and now you can look at the use case as a resource but teachers have become more sophisticated and so teachers now are more you know teaching properly in the right methods and there's more standards correct not a variety of methods correct there's not just sound based teaching it's more language on why these words work together and why they're that way correct you know it's more in teaching English in a visual and so students can pick that up over and through ASL again much more sophisticated huge difference so you know our students now is I look back and they're very fortunate in my time you know everything was sound based so this sounds like this remember you look at noun and then verbs you know adjectives and laying those out and now we're doing it through ASL and why things are laid out this way it's a whole different approach to teaching and I think that this is really an amazing success for our students you we're talking about this for the Deaf here being different than mainstream programs there's opportunities here our students have activities extracurricular activities involvement a whole variety of programs for example there's the career tech education this is we have photography engineering culinary a Career Center we have woodshop that's like a hearing school we also have green technology meaning our students are learning how type and electronics work we have Auto Body oftentimes we have tours with hearing students are just so impressed there's no such thing at a hearing public school and this is just very inclusive and now we have our digital media center that's here this is what our students can do production from storyboarding interviewing all the way through to videoing editing and then distribution of students work not just teachers work at CSD and I believe for schools Ladell throughout the country its student-led and we're encouraging our students to make millions of mistakes here so that way when they graduate they can be excellent problem solvers I think that's really where it's very different with a mainstream or a you know allowing our students to explore our snow teacher is it's a teacher driven on where they're following a teacher whereas we need to let her students explore and I think that's where that confidence gets built in as a whole striking difference between mainstream and residential school I'm not saying mainstream is bad I'm just showing what teachers understand of the students we have the resources and support to let them thrive and grow and we can tell all your a school for the deaf student you can tell and so let me show you our digital media center you so here it is right now it's all going on Renner going on renovations yes mm-hmm yes hi there yes this is mock loose' you oh I'm explaining about the tour of the school the students are making mm-hmm so just showing them that it's teacher is showing you where the student driven that teacher driven so our teachers are encouraging our students so that way we can make millions of mistakes here so when they graduate they're great problem solvers did you get that yes make mistakes here that's fine and when you graduate this person is a senior now you become a great problem solver mm-hmm and that's why the teachers are driving our students providing guidance and letting you figure out how to do things and understand things so whatever happens you can apply that to yourself and your learning as you go forward and solve problems you know you know they're brother and sister help graduate here they're coming to help oh hello there oh you look so much alike it's great to see you well personally I don't know you but I follow you on Instagram I really enjoy what you're doing and obviously and you know you and I follow you and Instagram so I know you teach signing well thank you I appreciate it yes thank you thank you very much this is great so what are you doing here I'm filming the school here I want to show hearing parents options with deaf schools or mainstream and it's it's their decision finding information because typically they won't come here they won't go out of their way so I want to take a film of the school and show it yes I can definitely show that including you know signing of course that's you know obviously that's hard to heart with that yes I have a heart for that so no discussion on that so for the state you know showing the heart here yes Oh from the Kelo I'm from Southern California San Diego okay I used to live in Wyoming and I moved here two years ago oh okay that's right that's right did your husband work I don't remember no no my family lives here not here in San Diego in San Diego so yeah we moved here and settled in I'm starving it's the wrong time but maybe some other time when you're in town you could talk with my students here and explain to them how you film and ideas you have oh yes I would love to do that that'd be fantastic I'd love to over the next month I'll reach out to you yes let's reach out and talk okay see that conversation that happens all the time at the school that's why we typically you know have this ability someone like you here your skill sets inviting you and we invite people in we've had so many guest speakers come to the school presenting odd to our students having them learn different deaf role models you know I want to be like this person potentially my future now and what do they do and what challenges do they have that's a great example of having someone here and connecting them it's so cool yes it is you okay this is a storyboard so is this uh we're gonna major yes um some students will major like this is a continued process as a class and this is an actual class oh this is actual class yes yes very cool oh thank you so much good to meet you yes you're welcome perfect oh yeah I'll see you I know we're doing some renovations here and so I'm here in my first year and so different ideas that are explained so what I'm trying to do is I'll show you this here the blueprint that's the concept of what this will look like how its set up and so I'd like to move the space here provide this set up here and become more of a green wall and also have the filming studio with lighting and the scaffolding and provide that idea so you could have a green floor as well so it's a wall on floor and that's we're working on right now it's almost done very cool this is awesome you know that's another thing about CSD we're always coming up with you know using the latest technology and investing in that we've invested heavily in English in different books and textbooks we've got tons of them here but not a lot with American Sign Language and so that again if she said over the last 20 years what's occurred what we're seeing as ASL is becoming more sophisticated there are standards and we're seeing this and we're seeing ASL which was small and we're building that up or building that base and so CSD is trying to use the budgets and invest heavily in this with renovations you know they said okay well it's fine you can sign with it and the idea is no with communication how do you present it how do you share this idea it's such an important part of American Sign Language and it really is in that student it's in their heart and we want to do more in the world in providing that for that student maybe a student wants to be a film person may wants to be a reporter now that we have more and more you know no news pardon me I mean a whole variety of you know Deepan is another site that exists deaf TV there's so much more signing that's happening and our students are already seeing that as a pipeline for them to get into that industry so again it's the little things that are so important and really helping them and grow with ASL and questions now our teachers are using questions and signing them in ASL so they can connect back and it's not that those students don't understand you know obviously yes the idea is with in ASL they read it and it's now becomes very easy understand to combine the two and that's something our students are doing right now in understanding why that sign is that way and how it connects back I mean that the next sentence is easier to understand and so we really need to improve and increase in our ASL components you know also developing scripting you know English is a challenge and so there's that idea of using ASL for sign scripting and we're having these great discussions with that yes I completely understand but the idea that here's a script here's an example you you mentioned fostering ideas and their show and here's the idea of what's going on with a show you so cool the ideas we've got you know mice we have you know science information and we're using that as well and such a nice thing that it was not quite done yet though is it's the news the Tallinn okay the new is great cool all right very cool again you'll see that our teachers here really invest in our students to be creative we're fostering them we want this product when they want to do this project we say go for it in students like I don't write very good they have these discussions and they're making this project they move forward so they're always encouraging and fostering them so this creativity here's a good example of what's it's wonderful you know I did take a film class though so boring you know so I really is not a lot to connect Dec isn't so fortunate they can have this here you know it's so attractive to see this you know filming but this is so cool what a great opportunity you know that again with student driven teacher driven there's a big difference and how this is done when you do a teacher driven students are just following the teacher and the teacher saying I know here's what I'm doing watch me here I'll set it up and the students are just watching what's going on what we're doing a student driven so getting them behind the lens having them film and then those explanations given and they're learning and I learn from the students Oh makes me the best teacher ever I learn from them I get a become a better teacher so yeah I'm learning from them absolutely and that's one great thing about schools for the Deaf with deaf teachers and deaf students you know I didn't have that so this is very cool yes again thank you I'm so happy you came to visit thank you for bringing her here absolutely no problem I love this this is great okay thank you you know we really preserve our history in pictures from back in the 1860s no have to tell you we have an original photo that's filed the way those of the museum that are just cherished but we paint copies of these pictures and put them up here she can see this it's just it's fascinating history of the school you know and we've got each category in different levels in different years yes that's correct not that many students know is very very small and it grew and it grew and it grew really it was founded in 1860 with four students relief just four yep and we expanded from there now how many spoons you have now we've got around 450 it kind of ebbs and flows but now 450 all those days students okay what I can say is from the cottages or the dormitories we don't call them dorms here we call them cottages and they ask whether the students some of them live there are 24 in each building so in the cottages we have approximately 250 students that live on campus Monday to Friday and they come in on Sunday and that's on Friday they go back home mm-hmm and the remaining students you know are days students the other two hundred some-odd students are day students mm-hmm you know I love that our athletics is another thing about CSD the California School for the Deaf what's a big gem of it there are four key pieces one is leadership the second being literacy the third being theater and the arts and the last being athletics and athletic programs that's a common theme and a student may you know see this leadership skills all there from Freemont someone's great at arts in the theater that's Fremont sports and athletics are great they know they're contributing to Gallaudet University again from Fremont and we're you know those that are great in signing and telling stories and writing and literacy again from Fremont one of the key tenants and our students are strong in these gem areas I love one of these pictures here it's an inspirational actually you you know in 1905 I love how the players you know have the turtlenecks on its you know the white children ech you know typically that would be the quarterback role so again great appearance looking so sharp you know fancy hair you know it's a I think I try to model his own hair but um just very attractive photo very fascinating again you'll see the same this is 1905 again we have at 1909 was at the white sweater same player yeah again we really value our history when we moved from Berkeley we lost quite a bit we weren't able to get everything in our move from Berkeley so we try to store as much as we couldn't were very excited we had a huge day with Apple here to contributing as a community giving has take community giving and they came out and they helped remodel part of the as you saw the the realm of the digital media room we have another studio that was being rebuilt so we can expand on to our museum and it's just a wonderful project that's very cool yeah it is you at the school here the kids are thriving many of our teachers come from a workplace where they've worked with hearing people they know how to work with hearing people and they've transferred here and become a teacher at the school and they can explain what it's like in the hearing world oftentimes hearing parents they'll be like okay they come to the School for the Deaf but it's such a small group you've got this larger hearing world how do you fit in how do you function in that hearing world after graduation we say oh oh actually our you know within ourselves at the school our teachers can explain to our students about the world at large and really incorporate into that student as they grow and build that confidence again we're not seeing this oppression within the school system in the classroom of a hearing vs. deaf or anything we're all the same here and we're learning and we're interacting and when I come to a hearing person I feel more confident in their acting with a hearing person knowing how to do that and that resource often times you know looking at the mainstream program you can have some interaction that's true but the resources with our teachers instructing you know again it's only from a book it's just from a textbook sometimes and they're teaching from that but again we want to introduce them to the world at large and it's two separate things introducing them to life introducing students to the world this is what it looks like here's how you apply things here you know it's deep explanations and you know the ideas we have that we don't you know I want kids to graduate have this deep resource with through our instruction you know in a mainstream program in that environment it doesn't have that inclusion with all the teachers who are deaf or signing and there's that resource being shared here we have that resource being shared back and forth all the time with our students and their learning and picking it up and growing with that often times that's when kids when they transfer into our school are just absolutely floored the first two months are actually quite challenging because they're used to either a quiet environment isolated potentially you know asking moving reading the book you know watching the interpreter going home and reading and there's just when they come here it's a new experience it forces a student to kind of learn and grow and communicate my thoughts more deeply how can I go from there and the ideas more things come up and suppose they go yeah that's that's normal but it's how do I respond to that how do I connect to that and we this becomes very overwhelming and we give them time we have peer factors for students we have a great system of support for new sitters that transfer and we're providing that support and after a few months time you know I see this very quick uptick where students can apply this and just thrive and take off in this environment and now they're getting home and parents are like floored saying wow this we have a different kid a different person that's just more confident and they're growing in themselves they're learning they're providing their thoughts and parents like wow this is a great decision to come to this school but it starts at the beginning there's this little bit of nervousness and anxiety and after that there's this great connection what this means is that we need to have that how do we get that into a younger age the younger students not waiting till middle school high school and learning this now it's almost too late we want to go back and start younger the correct you want to start the beginning and pick that up and have that not come in and you know for kids too late correct and the keys identity we want to combine that identity and also the language and the culture you know what's a key component here at the school it's not special ed here okay this is not special ed we are overlapping our California Common Core we have inserted Common Core into our instruction again that's different from what would happen in a mainstream program where they're following Common Core by the book you know American history they're teaching it to their students and the students you know are like what about my deaf people what about deaf leaders what about organizations that exist that are deaf you know I don't know anything about it now you're talking about you know American history you know here at the school oh wow that's so glad you said that they're inserting things into this program you know the ideas that the Deaf activism 'he's talking about our deaf history and how the 1880s occurred and everything that's changed from there and so students are learning that and we're overlapping that with American history and along with deaf history and inserting that into the in history showing our identity the idea of death hood we have a deaf a teacher here and I think that makes us a different environment for our students to know who I am oh thank you so much thank you for that thank you for your time Wow I really appreciate hopefully this isn't that it helpful and understanding what deaf schools look like and what they're like and how they instruct and how they teach I hope it is helpful thank you so much for watching this is so cool that I love this art you know for me I feel the third idea of signing here so so cool again this is wonderful isn't it you look at this you awesome very cool you

Channel: Signed With Heart

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Length: 36min 10sec (2170 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 03 2018