Well, I think the easiest habit for me is to teach and mentor others. I love teaching special ed and I think I'm good at my job. I like the challenge of figuring out how my students learn with the disabilities that they have. I love it when we (my student and I) have a break through in that disability and suddenly the whole thing makes sense to them. It's as if the world of "school" has suddenly come alive for them.
The hardest thing for me would be use technology to my advantage. I know that I can use technology to make school easier for my special needs students, I just don't know what to use or how to do it.
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As we get into some of the higher number 'Things' - I think you might find some tech tools that will help your students.
Some of the digital story telling and picture 'things' come to mind right now.
Great job! Love your blog! Question: What is "23 Things"? A book? A philosophy? Just wondering. Also, I love your Sp. Ed.ding title!! Very catchy. I think naming a blog is hard!! Just don't do what I do and start a blog...then never add to it!! lol. I look forward to reading more each week!
Hey Janine! So glad you found me!
The complete title to the class is
23 Things
Educators Exploring the World of Weg 2.0. We will learn about Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking and bookmarking, video, audio, and collaboration sites. Or at least that's what the intro to the class says. We'll see what happens. At the very least I get the exposure to these tools and at the most I can learn ways to incorporate them into my classroom on a daily or weekly basis. This class runs through the beginning of October...so check back!
I too am a sp ed teacher. I work with students with LD and/or ADHD and wouldn't have it any other way. Those "ah-hahs" make my day and are why I do what I do. I agree also that technology can be a powerful tool for them - it can help them operate as part of the outside community and remove some of the "specialness" that gives them such a stigma.
I found that to find the right tools for helping them and using in my classes, I just had to dive in to a few at a time. I have always found it fascinating that technology is defined as "a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technology).
This helped me realize that technology doesn't always have to be electronic, but I try to plan each lesson with the goal of helping them access or accomplish it as independently as possible and use the electronic technology to support this when possible. For example, if they were to need a reader, what could we use that could help that? If they would need organizational help, what tool will be best for them long-term..... Stuff like that.
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