Talk:Teaching students with ASD in 7-12 classrooms

Review -- Kacieb16 (talk) 20:31, 23 November 2014 (EST)

Hi Kate!

To start, this is a great layout and I enjoy your topic! As my course focuses on Autism as well. With that being said I actually tried to pull up your first unit and I see that it hasn’t been designed yet. I wasn’t sure if that was the case or I just couldn’t find the right link that would bring me to the course. Looking at your welcome page, I would just look over some minor grammar and punctuation mistakes. Also, regarding using ASD; maybe when you are explaining more of what this course is covering your could actually write out what ASD is just so your learners will have an idea of what it stands for and when they see it brought up in future usage in your courses they will be aware. For Unit three, will your students be creating an IEP plan? Or will they be creating a lesson plan aimed for students with autism? (I know it says lesson plan in your list of what your learners will be doing; but may reiterate this under your Unit three). Also, do you have a curriculum map? I feel as though I would be able to see your thought layout of a final goal a lot better with this. How will you be assessing your participants of “knowing more about autism and methods to help students learn?

Also, for Unit three; maybe you could first focus on the methods that you could use to help students learn and then have another section after your unit that can focus on your learners creating a lesson plan? This will give more time to focus on all of the objectives you have listed and then give you a little extra room to pull it all together!

BTW: Your link back to your main page works great! Bravo! :D

Keep up the good work and I can’t wait to learn more through your topic and mini-course! Any questions or need more feedback please let me know! I am more than happy to help!

-Kacie

instructor comment on your mini-course -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 09:54, 8 December 2014 (EST)

Hi Kathryn,

Your mini-course is almost there! The unit structure works fine. I know you're still working on it. Here're a few issues you'd want to address:

1) Add a statement about the target learner in your Welcome. 2) Refine objectives to describe what the learner will be able to perform/do as the result of taking this course, instead of what they will be doing in this course (e.g. read).

-Read about three different researched methods for accommodating students with autism

3) Better engage the learner's thinking and understanding by adding a specific case of ASD student to your unit 1 and revisiting it in your last unit to create plans.

4) Add navigation links in the end of each unit (Thinking of your limited knowledge about wiki editing, I've added this for you)