https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up Write a paragraph that reflects on the following questions: What went well? What would you change? What surprised you? Do you have any comments, stories or special moments that you want to share? en-us 2017-04-25 13:00:34 UTC 2025-09-30 14:21:22 UTC hello@padlet.com haley_hendershot https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168088249 I can't believe how smoothly the entire event went! I was worried that some of you might get a little shy when first meeting the students, but you definitely proved me wrong. Every single one of you was engaged and helpful. It made my heart so happy to see all of the smiles in the room. Overall, I don't know that there is much I would change from my perspective. However, I know that some of you noticed a few details in your lessons that could have worked better. Some of you even changed it on the fly, which is exactly what being a teacher is all about! One of my favorite stories from the day is how Matthew chose a "best friend" at each of his stations. This was so awesome because one of our original objectives was to give these students a way to engage with peers of their own age as they are often somewhat isolated in their own class. I hope that if you do see these students in the hallway, you will give them a high-five and say hello. ]]> 2017-04-25 13:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168088249 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168343589 I didn't expect for everything to go as well as it did. I enjoyed working with them and knowing that they were having fun. I learned that they have different learning abilities and some times you have to cope with them by changing up your lesson. Every last one of them was very smart and impressed me. The best moment was when Derek said that our station was his favorite. Overall this was an fun experience  and eye opening for me.]]> 2017-04-26 12:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168343589 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345148 The collaboration with Mrs.Smith's class was really fun and I felt really good about working with them. They learned a lot from us and I also learned a lot from them.I thought that our topic would not go well but it went great. Lastly, my favorite part was when Derek said our group was his favorite. We had to add more words for different students.]]> 2017-04-26 12:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345148 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345342 I enjoyed collaborating with Mrs. Smith's class. Every single kid was unique and fun to work with. All in all, I think everything went well. One thing that I would change is the sentences. Some of the sentences we created were plain. If I could do this experience again I would have prepared more creative sentences before the activity. One thing that surprised me was how interactive some of the students were. They loved when you asked them questions. My favorite part of the whole experience was when Matthew asked me to be his bestfriend. I thought it was really sweet and it seemed like he had a lot of fun at our station. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345342 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345638 In all honesty, the students in that class have definitely exceeded my expectations and they were all really smart and fun to work with. Everyone had their own qualities about them that differentiated them from others, while making it even more fun and challenging to work with them. This experience was definitely a humbling one, but it also made me realize that while they might appear to be autistic on the outside, on the inside they are just like us and they aren't afraid to be themselves. The only thing that I would change is adding more words to our game so that the students could enjoy our game a little bit longer and so they could gain more knowledge and practice from it.]]> 2017-04-26 12:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345638 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345653 Working with students with autism was really fun. Having worked with them in the past,  I had an idea what'd it be like working with them. However, this experience was different due to the fact that we were teaching them. It kind of opened my eyes to what it's like teaching students with autism. They were very inviting, fun, and most of them were really interactive during the bingo game. For some of the higher level students, the games went by really fast and we sometimes had to come up with statements on the spot to give to them, so that was one thing that threw us off a bit. If I'd be able to, I'd most likely change the size of the bingo board. Overall, It was really interesting hearing the responses from the students in regards to some of the questions we asked them during the bingo game. We would write a question on the board and after they picked the punctuation to go with it, we'd ask them the actual question. This  allowed us to get to know them better and that had to be one of the best parts of the whole period. I'd definitely   do this again. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345653 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345659 I think that the collaboration with Mrs. Smith's  went really well I didn't think that it would have been as fun as it was. We changed things a bit as we went. We started playing with them. Our game was just right because it wasnt to easy or too hard and they 10 minutes was just enough time for our people to finish the game in time most of the time. I was surprised of how interactive the students were and how they were so enthusiastic. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345659 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345676 During the collaboration with Mrs.Smiths class so many things went well. It warmed my heart to see other people be influened and like the activity my group had created for them.  I honestly would not change anything, our game went so well Mrs.Smith class loved it. Her kids did so well at picking which word in the sentence had to be capitalized. Some things that surprised me were how isolated they are from other students in the school. Melina, Tida, Derek, Matthew, Thomas, and Jamal were wonderful to work with I would love to do something like this again. A special moment that was really funny was when Derek came back to our station and asked us caould he have one of our game pieces. To me that means he really loved our game and wanted to remember this moment. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345676 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345730 I think that working with Mrs. Smith's class went very well. If I could go back and change the project I would make some harder words for the spelling bee because some of them flew through the words very quickly and there was still a lot of time left. I was surprised that they were all on such different levels of learning, like some of them knew all the words and others didnt really know where to start.  ]]> 2017-04-26 12:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345730 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345788 I think everything went well. I would change how many questions we had. For most kids, we finished everything in about four minutes so I definitely think we should´ve had about 20. I was surprised by how much some of them had. The only comment I have would be to try to get to know the students more and try other Special Education classes and spend time with them. Matthew keeps telling he has a lot of friends after we worked with them. 

]]> 2017-04-26 12:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345788 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345864 Collaborating with Mrs. Smith's class was awesome! The students enjoyed simply reading our paragraphs aside from doing the activity itself. If I had the knowledge that I have now, I would have selected a different topic. While they enjoyed attempting to do our topic, it is difficult to teach how to organize when they don't understand numerical order. I tried simply asking which is in order, 1, 2, 3 or 3, 1, 2 and they could not pick up the numeric order. However, our activity still served a purpose. There were many words that we repeated such as April or paleontologist that they were able to pick up and learn. So, while we were not able to complete our activity, they were able to learn new words and have fun while doing it.]]> 2017-04-26 12:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345864 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345884 The lesson with Mrs.Smith's was really eye opening. I got a chance to meet new and interesting people . The lesson went smoothly but i do think that our idea was a little  on the boring side and maybe too difficult for some of the students to understand. Despite this I really enjoyed working  with the students and seeing how excited they were to just learn new things. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345884 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345997 It was a fun and good experience to have and the kids were so nice and meeting them was great. The dice rolling seemed to be pretty fun, but when we were going through the lesson we would do some of the easier options for the less advanced students. It was surprising that most of them were doing so well at my group's game and it gave us an opportunity to see how well they work and are in general. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168345997 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168346204 I found that the students were very intelligent, many were able to spell all of our single syllable words with ease. However, I would add a significant amount of words to our list. Additionally, I feel as though we should've had double or even triple syllable words to our list so that we could really test them. What surprised me was how well they interacted with us. They were extremely kind and were very interested in our games. I would love to do this all again with the students.]]> 2017-04-26 12:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168346204 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168346507 I think that the collaboration with Mrs. Smith's class was a good experience to have and I think it went very well. However, I think that we should have done shorter sessions. I also think that our organization station was a little too hard for some of the students. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168346507 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168346822 Personally, I think the entire event went very well. All of the kids interacted with my group quite well and always finished quickly. The lesson that we had was pretty boring, if i got to do it again I would somehow try to make it a little more interesting. I was pretty surprised to see how well they learned and retained the information. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168346822 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168347832 I think the lesson we planned was probably hard but I was very surprised and happy to see how well they were picking it up and doing so well. I think I would  have planned the lesson and exactly what we were to be more clear. I was surprised how well they did with the reading and organizing. ]]> 2017-04-26 12:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168347832 haley_hendershot https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168348322 During my time working with Mrs. Smith’s class, everything went pretty well. If I could have changed something I would have brought whiteboards, and thought up more words. I would have also added harder words, or maybe add some two syllable words. It surprised me how quickly most of them flew through the words that we had chosen. Even Mrs. Smith said that she was surprised, and didn’t know that some of them knew those words, or even how to spell them. I think it really helped my group when we started out with Mrs. Smith to help us, it paved a way for us to act around the other kids, and help them learn more easily. Some of the kids had more trouble than others when it came to spelling the words, but that was to be assumed. It was still a really amazing experience and I would love to do it again!]]> 2017-04-26 12:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168348322 haley_hendershot https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168348817 Everything went well. I was highly nervous at the beginning but once i started working working with them I started to adjust to it a little more and more each rotation. I also thought that I wasn’t going to like it because it was outside of my comfort zone. I learned two lessons, one always try to step outside of your comfort zone because you never know if you might like it or not. My second lesson was that autism will never stop anybody from learning at least a little bit.]]> 2017-04-26 12:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168348817 haley_hendershot https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168349429 The day of the event was a great day for me. I was amazed and happy to see that everyone was working together. It was fun working with them and I had a blast. There was a downfall though, and that was the time. Every station was ten minutes and it felt like it was a lot longer. If we had an opportunity to do it again, I would just change the time to like six minutes. Other than that, I had fun.]]> 2017-04-26 12:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168349429 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168349887 I loved working with Mrs. Smith´s class. Most of the students liked and found it easy to play our station. One thing I would change is making sure we had the right words to make a complete sentence like (a, it, and, etc). I also thought the 10 minutes was a little too long. We tried to change it up a bit but i think the students like unscrambling the sentences. My favorite part was meeting matthew and seeing how friendly and excited he was about being there. He was like a ray of sunshine, you can't help but smile when you see him. 

]]> 2017-04-26 12:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168349887 https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168349898 I think that it went alright. One thing that could be improved is the amount of sentences that we had and having easier topics to write in an order or to not do such a hard requirement.]]> 2017-04-26 12:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/haley_hendershot/ralw0k82g9up/wish/168349898