Post #1: Welcome to My Professional Blog
Hello everyone, my name is Eleanora, and welcome to my blog!
Aside from school, I spend a lot of time working, watching shows on Netflix, and hanging out with friends. When my weekends aren't filled with activities and responsibilities in Milwaukee, I travel home to Green Bay to see my siblings. I have a 19-year-old brother named William, a 16-year-old brother named Matthias, and an 11-year-old sister named Adelaide (all pictured below, at different stages of life). My three younger siblings never fail to entertain and annoy me. For example, Adelaide, who is a mini replica of myself, has decided to call me "Potato" instead of my name. Just Potato. All the time. Completely unprovoked. It was tolerable at first, and now it's been months. To think there was a time in my life, annoyed with being outnumbered by boys in my own home, that I demanded my mom give me a sister. I almost regret that.
I am an undergraduate student in the MACSTEP program working towards a license in Secondary Math Education and a certificate in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). While I am very passionate about mathematics and math education, one of my big career goals is to be able to support my students with disabilities (whether it be physical or cognitive) and help them advocate for their rights and needs in regards to their education. Hence my teaching certificate in ASD. I had an IEP in high school myself, due to physical restrictions, and was lucky to have multiple teachers that took time to understand my needs and help me advocate for them. They were teachers who truly listened to me, respected me, and cared about me, and I excelled in their classrooms because of it.
I encourage all my peers to take time to understand different types of neuro-diversity, like ASD, that will be represented in their future classrooms. As teachers, it is our job to figure out how to connect with and successfully reach out to ALL students, not just the neuro-typical ones, and reading about different types of neuro-diversity is an easy way to do so! The website for CSESA (The Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders) is a great place to start!
Which high school in Green Bay did you go to? I went to Preble (04-08), but I love going back to the city to see how it has been changing. The ASD certificate sounds interesting and will definitely help you connect to more students and have different options for learning.
ReplyDeleteI went to Pulaski High School, so just outside Green Bay. Always cool to meet other Green Bay natives :)
DeleteHi Eleanora, first of all I love your name! Second, I can totally relate to being annoyed by younger siblings, I have two younger and two older siblings, all sisters , so it gets pretty crazy at times when we are all together as you probably can imagine! But I wouldn't have it any other way. I think what you are doing with the ASD certification is amazing and we definitely need more teachers becoming certified so that those students with special needs get the best education possible from informative, caring teachers.
ReplyDeleteHey Nora. It is cool to hear about your passion for supporting students with disabilities. I agree that as teachers we need to be attentive to the needs of these students and educated about how we can help these students. It is something I honestly haven't thought much about, but now I can recognize the need for myself to become more educated on it so I can really help these students in my future classroom.
ReplyDeletehello Potato,
ReplyDeleteI think your future work is pretty awesome! You sound extremely driven!
Sam
Hi Eleanora. Thank you for sharing the backstory on your professional goals for the coming year. I'd love to see the pictures you tried to include. For some reason they are not showing up for me.
ReplyDeleteHi! I went in to edit the post and tried re-uploading the pictures into the post a different way. I think you should be able to see them now! Let me know if you still can't.
DeleteYes, the images work
DeleteHello Eleanora, thanks for sharing with us a snippet into your home life. I come from a small family, just my brother and I, so it's always a pleasure to hear stories from people who have bigger families. My brother would call me "patty" so I could totally relate to your feelings about your sister calling you potato. Thanks for also sharing your motivation for getting certified in ASD, I think that it is extremely important that Educators are aware, and know how to accommodate students with different needs.
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