EDEL 2200 My First Prezi Presentation

Today I re-built the Prezi project that was assigned in order to include a web link and video; and have embedded into the blog. You should see it on the right side of the page. Is there a rule that this sort of thing has to fit inside the solid red background? Hope not: I could do that but it would make it too small to be readable at-a-glance. I can see where Prezi would be very useful, but so far I certainly prefer Powerpoint for presentation of projects.

EDEL 1010: Blog 5: Interview with My Service Learning Teacher

Trish is the teacher in one of two Resource Rooms at Midway Elementary School in Midway, UT. There is another Resource Room teacher, a Self Contained classroom teacher, and three part time Special Education Classroom Aides in this school of six hundred students. Trish is a second-career teacher who has been teaching special education for three years. Her first degree and career were in Social Work. Several years ago she began working as a Special Education Aide and then returned to school to get certified as a Special Education teacher. Her work schedule includes Mondays which are reserved for meetings and testing and Tuesday through Friday when she works with individuals or small groups of students in the Resource Room. She currently works with students in the following categories: Specific Learning Disability, Speech and Language Impaired, Emotionally Disturbed, and Other Health Impaired (including cerebral palsy, autism, and auditory processing disorder). Trish loves her work and her favorite part is working one on one. Things she would like to change would be spending more of her time working one on one and she would also like to have more training in behavior management. Most parents are very good to work with, Trish says. The only challenge currently is working with a parent who is also intellectually disabled. Trish is happy to work with a Principal who has some experience with special education and is very supportive of "whatever needs to be done to meet the needs of a student." In addition to being a second career teacher, Trish is also the mother of three children. She thinks being a parent helped her immensely in seeing the "big picture" for students with disabilities. I have been able to observe the use of both "low tech" and high tech tools in the special education classroom. I have watched Trish use different techniques to engage her students in learning. I especially like her use of hand cues and minimal verbal prompts to manage the students attention to the activity.