Today begins my EDEX962/963 class which is the practicum for
graduate students getting their master’s degree in Learning Disabilities or
Emotional Disabilities. Each July, I create a summer school with real students
who have learning or emotional difficulties and my students who are the
teachers teach the children. I am like a principal where I observe and evaluate
the teachers as well as handle any discipline issues with the children.
During the first week, I ask my teachers to come up with
three goals they hope to achieve during my class. I like to do this exercise
with them.
Here are my goals:
·
I want to share my expertise and knowledge of
teaching students with special needs for over thirty years with the teachers. I
hope it will help them in their own classrooms when they return to work in the
fall.
·
I want to share with them information about my
new book, The Successful Teacher’s Handbook, which has been recently released.
I hope this information will be useful to them.
·
I want to learn from the teachers about new
strategies or techniques that they have researched (evidence-based practices)
and are trying in the classroom.
Original photo by Pat Hensley
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