Exhausted...

These past few weeks have been very hectic for my family and I.  No reason in particular but we like to stay active when it is nice outside and be with people we love.  This has been struggle to keep up with grad school work.  Understanding what needs to be done and when is always a struggle and it can cause some stress.

This week our assignment was to think about technology and Special Education.  This made me think of my time at Syracuse University.  I really appreciate my student teaching placements there.  We had nine different placements and I got to see and experience all different kinds of classrooms.  My favorite placement was in an Inclusion classroom where the teachers had everything working so well.  No student in the room was excluded or singled out.  This example of what inclusion could be drove me to want to teach in a similar kind of classroom.  Technology played very little parts in the classroom.  Each classroom probably had a computer which students would sometimes use but it was the very beginning time of the internet.  I saw the most technology in my classroom that had students who had severe disabilities.  Teachers used technology to help students communicate when they did not have the ability to use speak or write.  Most of the technology was created and then printed out.  Times have changed so much.  It would be interesting how IPads and tablets have changed how teachers help students communicate.