Pre-Service Teachers

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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