Dealing with Cruel Words
I was surfing around and came across this older post from California Teacher Guy (who is at this moment drinking a pilsner in some haufbrauhaus to help him get over his jet lag) that got me to...
View ArticleA Teacher Supply Problem
I like to try to recruit smart people into the Special education business as much as anyone else. We need more people, and we need smart people. At the same time, I’m a strong advocate of doing...
View ArticleA Few Comments on the Supreme’s Ruling
Earlier this week, the SCOTUS made a ruling concerning special education and private tuition reimbursement. you can get a quick summary from the Washington Post here. You can also get a summary from...
View ArticleFitting Education to Students’ Needs
This article by Jay Matthews from the Washington Post does a good job of summarizing just exactly why the special education field is so litigious and combative. Even when a parent does all of the right...
View ArticleAssessing Students with Disabilities: Some Answers to Interview Questions
I have on several occasions gotten questions from graduate students who are taking classes for which they have to interview a special education teacher. The questions are rarely simple or at least I...
View ArticleInterview Questions : Issues of Prejudice for Children with Disabilities
Every so often a student comes and needs to do an interview and for the most part I like doing them. My only condition is that I am able to post the questions and answers on my blog, and I’ve yet to...
View ArticleAn Idea Worth Sharing: The Divided Brain
I thought this video was really interesting, not only in what the talk is about but also the way it was presented: I’ve always been fascinated by how our brains function, and how it enables us to...
View ArticleRe-Doing “A Special Education”
In a prior post, I did a small review of an excerpt of a book A Special Education by Dana Buchman. A couple of things have developed out of those few lines. One is that I happened to hear an interview...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on Learning Disabilities
I do have some history with working with individuals with learning disabilities and even originally was going to get my master’s in teaching LD before ending up with my degree teaching EBD. The...
View ArticleThe Mathematical Death March
I hope my co-teacher doesn’t see this. But in case she does, I’ll say here what I’ve already told her and the other pre-calc teacher with whom I share (virtual) classroom space: They do a superb job...
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