As the summer of Kenan has come to a close, I feel so fortunate to have been a part of such a special learning experience.  I look forward to embedding many of the technology options into my daily teaching of students with severe disabilities and deaf/blindness.

This experience helped me to delve into the Science Extended Essential Standards for my students in the adapted curriculum. I thoroughly enjoyed researching and creating lessons that use to teach science in my classroom. The technology I learned had the biggest impact on me.  It got me excited in thinking of ways to get my students and parents more involved in the classroom. For every technology idea that was shared with us at NCCAT and Raleigh, I got excited thinking about how I could adapt this for my classroom. I look forward to figuring out how to embed the technology into science with our separate and inclusive educational settings.

With my students having so many physical disabilities and communication hurdles to jump, technology has opened a lot of doors for them to become active participants in their lives. Things sure have come a long way from when I first started almost 25 years ago. Back then, students in the low incidence classrooms would just participate in sensory type activities. Now the bar has been raised to such a higher level! So far this school year, I have already arranged some inclusive science lesson opportunities for our students in the adapted setting to work together with those students from the general education setting. I am in the process now of writing grants to help fund some of these inclusive science lessons throughout the school year. My fingers are crossed! So exciting!