Learners Position Does Not Have To Be In A Seat
Its time to celebrate Aspen, her parents and her teachers who recognized the importance of the movement of her hands to keep her mind centered. Gone are the days when a classroom should be filled with students at their seats facing a board with their hands folded. Instead, today’s classrooms are focused on students directing and engaging in their learning in a variety of modalities. Never is this more important than in special education classrooms.
The whole focus for our program design is to allow students to move away from pencil and paper tasks, instead focusing on engaging special education students in collaborative experiences where they create and manipulate to enhance their learning.
Our autism work boxes have underlying vocational tasks within them, but have a structured environment that allows students to grow and develop their skills. Our task boxes for special education, specifically our SEWING box, resonates with Aspens story. This box does not need to be done in a seat, but the shoe box tasks included allow for easy potability in a variety of educational/non-educational settings, i.e. on the bus, at home, in the car, at a restaurant, etc. etc. For example, in my classroom we used the mesh sewing screens outside of the building during a fire drill that helped sooth them. A parent of one of my autistic students asked for a box to use in her car to calm her son while at the dentists office.
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