week 12

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Teaching Reflection

1. How do you feel about your lesson delivery and why? Was it effective, why or why not?

I felt that the lesson delivery went well I think they understood well how students with autism felt and understood how to accomodate for students with autism. 

1. What evidence do you have (while delivering your lesson) of effective student engagement?

I had the class do a simulation of how autism children feel in stressful situations and I thought that went really well in helping them understand what the students might be going through.

1. If you were to teach this lesson by yourself, not in a group, what would you change and why?

I would talk a lot more about accomodations and how to properly interact with these children because I feel accomodating is better than forgetting about them. This needs to be taught more.

1. What could have been an area of improvement in your teaching?

I think an area of improvement could be motivating my students to be encouraging and for myself to be more up beat about what I am talking about, or passionate.

1. Based on the criteria for the “Teaching Experience” on our syllabus, would you give your group a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why?  AND would you give yourself a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why?

I think I would give our group a 10 because we all were well prepared and presented fairly. I would give myself a 10 as well because I thought my delivery went well and the students learned how these children feel in tough situations. It went very well. 

Thank You! - Angie Rogers

Stuttering

 Go to a restaurant, order at least one item and then ask 1-2 questions to the waiter/ress about the item
 Stutter while checking out at Wal-Mart. Ask them a question about your order

These are the tasks I did with stuttering and honestly it was hard because I dont naturally stutter so I felt really dumb and I felt like the helper was judging me hard core becasue I wasnt convicing so I felt like they thought I was just giving them a hard time or something. It was hard for me to keep it going. My brother stutters  and now I know how it feels when he talks to people because he probably feels the same way. Great experience.

Learning Disability

 While checking out at Wal-Mart, ask a question about your order.
 Ask for directions to a location. Repeat back part of the directions for clarification.

These were the experiments I did with this simulation. I tried to ask the cashier about the easter candy that was 50% off but it took me a while to formulate a question that didnt have a /l/ or /n/. Once I did say the question I still was delaying my speech becasue I wanted to make sure I wasnt using /l/ or /n/ it was definitely hard! It was interesting to be able to try and figure these things out and it was HARD!

Visual Impairment

 Wear the mask for a minimum of four hours – and it doesn’t count if you wear it while you’re sleeping.
 Keep it on the entire time; do not remove and then put on again
 Once your four hours is completed, please use a disinfectant wipe and wipe the inside edges of the mask before returning it

I myself am already visually impaired. It was weird for me to find out that I am visually impaired because wearing glasses is such a normal thing that I never thought of it being a disability. While wearing these masks it opened my eyes to a lot of other ways people might be seeing. I know for I am very near sided and if I dont wear my glasses or contacts I get a headache. I cant even imagine what the people with these other visual impairments feel during the day. I know that I am also very sensitive to lighting in a classroom or neon colored paper really hurts my eyes. It was interesting being able to see through the eyes of others but I still wonder what it feels like.

Wheel Chair Experiance

1. Go to the restroom, enter a stall, and transfer your body from the wheelchair to the toilet. Reverse the process and return to the wheelchair.
2. Get a drink from the drinking fountain.
3. Go another building on campus and ask for directions/assistance (e.g., Kimball Building information desk).
4. Ride an elevator.
5. Go up and down a hill by yourself.
6. Go through a door without using the door opener.
7. Go through a door using the door opener.
8. Ask for assistance to navigate a tough spot.

This was a fun but frusterating experiance. It definitely was an eye opening experiance as well. It was hard to do those little things that I took for granite. It was hard asking others for help because I have been independent in a lot of things but in this case I did need help. I felt very vulnerable because everyone does stare at you it's really intimidating. It is great that I had this experiance. Although, riding elevators was pretty fun because I didnt have to walk up stairs and I had a reason not to walk up stairs but finding the eleators in a lot of the buildings here on campus are hard to find! Also a lot of the door openers are really close to the door so you have to go up to it and push it then back up and it is a hassel. Great experiance though over all!

Service Projects

1 Hour- I went to an autism walk at Madison Jr. High and was able to comunicate with the children there and better understand what they are thinking while at this activity. I was also able to talk to a few parents whos children have autism and it was a really cool experiance to be able to be there and experiance this fun filled day.

Friday/ April 1st: 2 Hours at the Developmental Workshop:
This experience was awesome! I loved working with the adults there. My job today was going out to the community and watching them in a social environment trying to find specific food items and the logical places of where they could be. They had to pay for their items with minimal help. It was really interesting to see as well how they had to cross the parking lot making sure there were no cars that would hurt them. It was fun to see everyone so happy to be able to do the things they were told.

2 hours(7 days) I work in an elementary school where I worked with two students. One of the two had ADD and the other was mute. It was interesting to see how the students were being observed and it was interesting to see how they would participate. The student with ADD loved attention and thrived off of being told he was right. I thought he was ahead and very smart but just got board easily. It was interesting to see the mute child use his hands to try to express himself. I had to help him try to answer questions or interact vocally with his peers. Really great experience.