Every day we work on reading and writing...we have a Readers Workshop time and then a time to reflect on what we read ... maybe make a text-to- text connection or a personal connection using schema. My job here is to read with the student ... the student uses sign to show that he/she knows the words in the story. We then discuss, if the story reminds him/her of another story or something that has happened to him/her. The student then draws a picture or answers questions that are given for that days lesson. Always EXCITING!! In this picture you can see that Mrs. Egli's students are hard at work.

Mrs. Egli's class has many visuals that are needed to help encourage learning. Here you can see that some of her visuals are very self explanatory, a student can learn about his/her classroom just by looking around and seeing the visuals...This is very helpful for all students. Visuals are a great way to encourage learining skills and boost students self-esteem!

To stay current with the state laws, an Interpreter needs to apply for a EIC certificate and earn points by going to workshops and classes that give ceu's. These ceu's need to add up to 4.o units and you must have these 4.0 units within the 2 year period given to achieve this goal. In the following pictures you can see that we work together to achieve the goals set before us.

~(2008 Indiana Deaf Educators and Educational Interpreters Conference)~

Please take a few moments and look at the web links I added to the Blog. As you can see we are linked with Mrs. Egli's class page, a Cochlear page (that can take you in to many informational sites), The Hearing Jounny which is a link that is very educational and gives you activities you can do with your student/child.and ASL Pro that shows you how to learn sign language. ASL is short for American Sign Language. In this picture you can see that this school system uses SEE or Signing Exact English which is a form of signs that add the ing, s, 's,ed er, ect. to the words. (This helps in reading). We also have a computer disc with all the signs, that we can print out when needed. During our class poem, that we do each week, I make a print out of all the signs it take to say the poem, Then the student can sign and say it along with the class. We also use an Erase board to help with visuals, both the student and myself use this board...He truly enjoys drawing pictures of his super heros and writing words he knows, it can be a reward when the task at hand is finished! Work of the student is always rewarded, you can see in the left hand corner a Sticker Book, that the student adds to after each succesful task. To help keep things organized and easily at hand I have a carry-all (with folders for all paper work) and a pencil box where I can keep things organized and tidy. This helps make all transitions smooth for me and keeps all my things right where I need them! What a Challenging and rewarding job!

Mrs. Egli's class enjoys many "specials", these are PE, Computer Lab, Music, Library, and Art. Many students are enjoying todays lesson on Picasso and how he drew the human face. My job here was to help the student understand that these pictures were not monsters, but Picasso's way of seeing the world, in a very different way! The assignment was to creat a face that was NOT balanced. The student enjoyed the assignment after being given a mirror and allowed to create a picture of himself! In this art class you can see that the visuals use were very beneficial for all the students! What a wonderful and fun assignment!