Today was a good day! I started off my day at my Dean's meeting. We had a presenter talk to us about brain research and what happens when children get upset. Especially related to teaching children poverty. Children whose family meet the guidelines of poverty are actually "wired" differently. Many people do not know how vast the difference in vocabulary and experiences between children in poverty and middle class children. Their brains actually develop differently. It was VERY interesting and put a perspective again on the type of children I deal with everyday. By know means is this an excuse for their academics, behavior etc, but it reminds us that we need to go about teaching and handling these children in different ways.
The magnets in the picture are from a first grader who has autism. He has OCD tendencies with magnets. It comforts him to walk around my room and collect all the magnets and put them on the side of his desk. He can't sit down until that happens. He's a really neat kid, one of my favorites actually... :0)
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