tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:27:10 +0000I am writing this as a teacher who has children with ASD in my classroom. I am doing this in support of the National Autistic Society's "make school make sense" campaign.http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-842961579451685382Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:19:00 +00002008-02-27T16:28:55.917+00:00I hate sats.I really despise them.I totally resent their existence in my world.I would rather listen to the European Union debate the straightness and length of bananas in Danish, than I would do sats.I refuse to capitlise them.This week we have had mock optional sats. Look at those words. mock (as in pretend) optional (as in don't have to do it) and sats (as in standard assessment tests). Nowhttp://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-hate-sats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-5610509708601542551Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:21:00 +00002008-02-14T07:41:08.988+00:00............. but let's face it, it's not like anyone reads this anyway lol!All of Spectrum have settled into what was a very short half term, although Captains Blue and Magenta had some time off with illness.Captain Magenta has done particularly well this half term to be honest. I've been off with VLE training and BETT show and so on, Rhapsody Angel has been off as her son wasn't well, and http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2008/02/ok-so-its-been-while.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-6917015149873317014Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:46:00 +00002008-01-18T23:20:43.143+00:00and I am wonderful.Nope.Really, I am!Not only have my children come back with limited loss of knowledge (although I'd rather refer to it as replacement of knowledge by something more necessary to them) but I have also managed to come up with a way to identify my children in this here blog.Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, let me take you back to a time long ago, when anyone my age was young and http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2008/01/january-term-starts-with-new-names.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-6418249537012769715Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:21:00 +00002007-12-15T07:43:05.855+00:00I have end of termitus. It's a common complaint amongst teachers, leading to disinterest in marking, tiredness, and outbreaks of worksheets or "Golden Time"I'll tell you what it's like.In the morning, when I get up at around 6am, I head downstairs, in the dark, leaving my OH and my Adorable Child asleep.The second my foot hits the bottom step both the cat and the guinea pig start. The cat wants http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/12/end-of-term-itus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-6937036340999224577Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:27:00 +00002007-12-08T22:46:59.231+00:00Well this week was an odd one and no mistake!Monday - start of rehearsals for the Christmas assembly. Which is turning into a performance. Which lead to me playing the guitar and singing for 3 hours, more or less. How accessible was this for the ASDer's? Well, it's interesting. One of the aspie children has a good reading part. One is acting, and doing it jolly finely. The others are in my http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/12/weird-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-9191055197420553546Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:34:00 +00002007-12-01T08:13:27.497+00:00"Could he be autistic or something?"The number of times that I have heard this statement from parents is unreal. Usually it's because the child has been in trouble a number of times and the parents want a reason. Some want an excuse. Some want to label the child with a problem so that they can cure him, so they have something to attack. The stereotypical view of autists, courtesty of Rainman http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/12/sentences-i-dread.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-795775104019495739Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:20:00 +00002007-11-27T20:37:15.123+00:00I had 2 reviews of statement today. I went along, armed with my detailed knowledge of the child. For the first time in a long time in a statement review meeting, aside from the fact that there were more people than chairs, those views were listened to.Not only that, in the first of the two, the parents thanked us for the support we had given their child, and the allowances that were made, and http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/11/statements-and-reviews.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-3362100129080065510Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:22:00 +00002007-11-23T07:26:30.212+00:00And all of the above a thousand times.I am utterly a star struck child.Michael Rosen came to our school.My face *still* hurts from laughing!Proper blog later.*swoon*http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/11/sigh-swoon-my-face-hurts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-10501574401314245Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:56:00 +00002007-11-19T20:09:37.161+00:00Well, we went, and we came back.The actual exhibition itself was good. The walk up and back was fine. We had a couple of children on wrist reins, which were needed in a couple of instances, but the whole thorny issue of inclusivity raised it's head for me today.We went for an exhibition which was basically a piece of Christian outreach. Fine, whatever floats your boat. I'm a card carrying http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/11/and-were-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-4040120882617158805Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:18:00 +00002007-11-18T22:27:11.490+00:00Tomorrow we walk into town for an exhibition. So far I have 11 adults for my 29 children. I am still not convinced that that is enough with the children I am taking! If I need to send anyone back to school for whatever reason (overstimulation, stress, whatever) I need to have a spare adult to send as well. I have wrist reins for anyone who needs them, and have been advised to use them by two http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/11/school-trip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-5275702689574267890Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:25:00 +00002007-11-11T21:46:53.139+00:00 It's Sunday night (again) and I am trying to watch "Long Way Down" with the rather lovely Ewan and the rather less lovely but still quite sweet Charley, and doing my homework in front of the TV. (To be techincally accurate, it's alongside the TV, but lets not split hairs) I am attempting to force my mind away from Mr McGreagor and his leather outfit and enormous bike and onto the Literacy http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/11/so-tell-me-again-why-i-do-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-2271118835791264599Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:39:00 +00002007-11-10T08:16:41.313+00:00It's been a hard, long, very peculiar week this week. One of the regular issues in my classroom has come up, and it's a tough one.I have always thought that the ASD label is a label. It is not the summation of the entire child, nor yet is does it show all they will become. It is a pointer to the fact that I need to make certain changes in the environment, in teaching style, in attitude, in http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-weekend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-496848704852460872Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:17:00 +00002007-11-03T23:20:34.139+00:00Yeah, it's late.Check out how late it is.2314, or almost quarter past eleven for those of us in Numeracy Unit C1 Reading the time to the quarter hour.It's late and I've just finished 3 (count 'em! 3!) IEP's for the week. I do two each week anyway for 2 children in my class who have ASD and GDD in combination. Loving that combination. I was asked this week if I would do a third one for a child http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-post-cos-its-late.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-2309612517458179324Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:08:00 +00002007-10-29T20:14:48.085+00:00Oh yeah.My boys are all back in town.And it's all gone well. Mostly.We were most concerned about two of the children that we hadn't had after a holiday before. Turns out they were fine, had been ill over the week away and were very affectionate and having a lovely day. They are both still suffering the after effects of being ill though and were very tired. They worked hard in the morning, buthttp://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/10/boys-are-back-in-town.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-5630389073249170227Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:47:00 +00002007-10-29T06:00:43.797+00:00Now, it may not seem important to you that I have new glasses, or rather that I need them and they are not here. I went in on Wednesday for the appointment, the sunglasses are here, the ordinary glasses are not. I am as short sighted as the proverbial bat, (but with excellent hearing "I heard what you whispered Matthew and if you whisper anything like that again we shall be discussing it!") and http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-new-glasses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-4221508352093782007Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:59:00 +00002007-10-24T15:51:05.755+01:00So this is my first official post about having children with ASD in my classroom, and suddenly I have nothing to say!It's half term, and so whilst it may seem like all teachers do in the holidays is sit at home and play old Steps albums (although that may be just me!) we do actually spend a lot of time thinking about school. For instance, I have been in school today *and* yesterday, for 4 hours http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/10/testing-testing-is-this-thing-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teacher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699115409664399347.post-7132901807789186766Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:36:00 +00002007-10-14T14:36:57.697+01:00The National Autistic Society (NAS) has set up this blog on behalf of an independent volunteer blogger. All posts made are an expression of the personal views of the blogger and the NAS takes no responsibility for their content. If you have a complaint about any of the posts made, please add a comment against the post.Thank you for showing interest in Autism and Asperger syndrome. To join the http://teacher-msms.blogspot.com/2007/10/disclaimer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0