Pre-Service Teachers

4 FREE digital downloads for SPED Inclusion Supports

I wanted to share and showcase a few free resources that some of my wonderful college students created to promote SPED inclusion in their future classrooms. They have given permission to share these resources for free so teachers everywhere can have access to them!

Book Review: The Reason I jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Title of the book: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. By Naoki Higashida Summary of the story/book content: This is a fascinating book written by a 13-year old boy from Japan who experiences autism. His autism impacts him to the point where he is non-verbal. Unlike some of […]

Dr. Temple Grandin-My biggest takeaways from her keynote speech

I got to meet Temple!!!  Getting the chance to watch Dr. Temple Grandin talk has been a career long dream of mine! When I started working with children with autism back in 1997, her book “Thinking in Pictures” was one of my first introductions to autism.   Dr. Grandin was one of the first individuals […]

Weekly Self Reflection For Student Teachers

→Self-Reflection: Why is self-reflection so important in teaching? when we teach we learn about what works and what doesn’t work by using self-reflection. Teach a lesson, a day, a week and look back and take the time to examine what worked well, and what didn’t work. Here are some questions to ask: How did the […]

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