Young adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) face a multitude of challenges. Every year they get closer to aging out of educational programming, facing the same issues/concerns as their peers: Will I seek higher education? How will I make a living? What do I want to do with my life? I work with several adolescents […]
January 11, 2013
The Worst Teacher Ever
You’re the worst teacher ever. You’re so annoying. Clearly, Joe hadn’t had the pleasure of sitting through Ms. Grossman’s 10th grade geometry class. I remember her deducting points for not having our textbooks covered; sending students out of class for unzipping their backpacks to retrieve calculators and making bold statements like: “It’s just my job […]
December 4, 2012
Motivating Operations and the Classroom
Motivating Operations and the Classroom I wrote the above a couple of years ago for a Classroom Management course. Motivation is something teachers often discuss but rarely look at from a behavior analytic perspective. I thought it would be worth sharing. My professor didn’t include the references, so I will post them below. REFERENCES FOR MO […]
October 10, 2012
Special Education Advisor
Over the next few months, several of the blog posts on this site will be featured on Special Education Advisor. This website is a valuable resource for special educators, parents and professionals in the field of education. I highly recommend checking it out.
September 25, 2012
What Do You Teach?
I’ve been reading Jan Valle and David Conner’s Rethinking disability, a disability studies approach to inclusive practices. Thus far, I’ve found it to be a really concise, entertaining and easy to maneuver text about inclusive educational practices. It’s a nice departure from the repetitious/outdated/seemingly inapplicable tomes I’ve encountered in grad. school. I definitely recommend picking it up. […]
September 22, 2012
24-Hour Cultural Analysis
I’m currently enrolled in a course focused on the topic of inclusion. One of the tenants of the course is the notion that inclusion is a social issue, akin to racial and gender segregation. One of our assignments required us to conduct a 24-hour analysis wherein we noted each time we encountered the broad theme […]
September 21, 2012
Fighting with Plastic Forks
Please put your paper on the desk, Kyle. “No.” It’s going to be really hard for me to help you if I can’t see what you’re working on. “I don’t care.” Alright, come on, hand me that (plastic)fork. “No way, it’s mine, you can’t take it from me.” Listen, I’d really like it if we […]
August 10, 2012
Steps to Success
Erin was having a tough time with her two-digit addition problems. Looking over her shoulder, I noticed she was working from left to right; her problems were misaligned and she was failing to regroup. I wondered how she’d managed to make it to third grade; however-as we know- many students matriculate even though they have […]
August 1, 2012
What’s The Point?
Every weekday morning, for the past three weeks, at approximately 8:30am, I’ve heard a variation of this theme, usually declared with boisterous articulation by a school administrator: If you can’t line up quietly and exit the cafeteria we will have to practice lining up during recess. You don’t really want that do you? But I […]
February 15, 2013
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