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Education

Smarmie Doofus

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1. I used drama and role play when I taught autistic kids.

Reply to antigop (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 06:00 PM

Dec 2014

It created all sorts of opportunities to teach what autistic kids ( especially) need to learn: i.e. social skills, speech, language, body language, eye-contact. Learning was a pleasure for them and teaching was a joy for me. And... I dare say, what they were learning could not be taught in any other way.

Then the school "reform" morons came in, prescribed a pre-fab , big $$$$, online curriculum that "aligned" with the CCSS and the spam-in-a -can Danielson Framework.

Misery ensued. Misery persists.

I'm out of it now but people tell me misery persists.

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Why Children's Theatre Matters [View all] antigop Dec 2014 OP

I used drama and role play when I taught autistic kids. Smarmie Doofus Dec 2014 #1

so sorry to hear that. This country is really effed up. nt antigop Dec 2014 #2

K & R in support of the arts in education. femmocrat Dec 2014 #3