Teach Out Project Proposal

 

The Teach Out Project Proposal

CHOOSE A TEXT: The text I decided to go with from my project was What is Neurodiversity. As a school nurse, this one really intrigued me and talked about a lot of what I see in the clinic. This is a topic that matters to me because I see a lot of autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit, sensory processing, and executive function disorders. These students I find really struggle and often find themselves in the clinic. This is something I wish to share with some of my coworkers who work with this population of students as well. Another article I am going to include is Shifting the Paradigm by Shannon Renkly and Katherine Bertolini. This is an article that interested me because as educators we need to focus on how we speak to students and refraining from focusing on what students are missing. There definitely needs to be more focus on student strengths. I look forward to sharing this with my coworkers.

WHO DO YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH? I would like to share this information with two people I work with closely. These two people are TA’s in the behavioral program at my school. They work very closely with some of my neurodivergent students so I feel this may be a topic of interest for them as well. I also would like to bring this article up to my husband because as a child he always suffered with ADHD/dyslexia and never had the right resources. Shifting the Paradigm is another article I wish to share with my two coworkers as this is something they can apply to their classroom.

WHAT FORMAT MIGHT WORK FOR YOU? The format I plan to use for this project is sitting down and explaining both articles to my coworkers. I will sit down separately with my husband for only the first article as I am curious his thoughts. After this, we will chat about their thoughts and or responses. I will write up summaries for both my articles and what my coworkers' thoughts were. Sitting down and chatting amongst each other I feel will be the easiest way to gather information. A very easy going environment will lead us to good conversation.