Symposium+-+Tuesday

During the 9:00 session, I went to a workshop called //Sharing Their Brightness in Your Classroom: Shedding Light on Accommodating Students with Special Needs.// The speaker, Paula Filler, was extremely energetic and sarcastic which drew me back for her second session. The first session was about making accommodations and modifications for reluctant readers. We also looked at the difference. She touched on a lot of administrative topics such as meetings, IEP's, and 504's.

The second session was about how to get kids reading using non-fiction books. I love this idea because it makes sense to me. When I was a younger reader, reluctant was definitely the word for me. I never enjoyed reading novels until college. I always picked up non-fiction books when I was in elementary school. Being taught techniques on how to get kids interested to topics by using intriguing books can be very useful to me as a teacher.