ALEX stands for Alabama Learning Exchange. It is a project of the Alabama Department of Education and is set up to provide teachers, administrators, parents and students with valuable information and resources such as lesson plans, web links and interactive activities that will help educators provide the best quality of learning to their students.
ALEX can be reached at http://alex.state.al.us. You can click on the following links to receive information: Courses of Study, Web Links, Lesson Plans, Personal Workspace, Professional Learning and Distance Learning. There are also Search and Help links.
After you click on the Course of Study link, you can choose the course to be studied and the grade level to be taught. It will give you the goals and standards that are to be met in a time period for that age group along with other information.
After you click the Lesson Plans link, you can create your own lesson plans or use lesson plans that have been posted and modify them to your needs.
Personal Workspace is for you to store and submit lesson plans and websites. It is just what it says it is, your personal workspace.
Professional Learning link gives you some websites that will help you find opportunities for professional development, teaching tools, news and other information.
Clicking on the Distance Learning link takes you to the ACCESS access. ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide. It allows students to participate in Advanced Placement, electives and other courses that may not be available at their school.
Log on to alex.state.al and check ALEX out!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Jenni's blog for edm310
My name is Jennifer (Jenni) Lenox. I am 37 years old. After my son, Jonah, was diagnosed with Autism at age 3, I dropped out of the University of South Alabama where I was majoring in Elementary Education and quit work to focus on getting my son through the 'critical period'... which is between the ages of 2 and 5 for autistic children. Jonah is now 8 1/2. I am returning to South to complete my education and am now majoring in Special Education. My hope is to teach autistic children.
For those of you who are not familiar with Autism, it is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder that affects 1 out of every 150 births in the United States today. It is more prevalent than all the forms of childhood cancers, heart disease and diabetes COMBINED! It is a spectrum disorder that ranges from very mild (commonly refered to as Asperger's Syndrome or High Functioning Autism) to severe. Contrary to popular belief, there really is no such thing as Classic Autism. You could have a thousand people with Autism in a room and you'd have a thousand different variations of the disorder.
Jonah is on the moderate to severe end of the spectrum. When he was first diagnosed, he had very little language. He only used about ten words. I say used because he said many words, but they were not functional. He would just spout them out, echo what he heard. Now he has a vocabulary of hundreds of words and speaks in sentences. He still has a long way to go, but he's come a long way.
The most common form of therapy, or method, used in teaching children with Autism is called ABA or Applied Behavior Analysis. You can find out more information on Autism and ABA at autismspeaks.org.
For those of you who are not familiar with Autism, it is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder that affects 1 out of every 150 births in the United States today. It is more prevalent than all the forms of childhood cancers, heart disease and diabetes COMBINED! It is a spectrum disorder that ranges from very mild (commonly refered to as Asperger's Syndrome or High Functioning Autism) to severe. Contrary to popular belief, there really is no such thing as Classic Autism. You could have a thousand people with Autism in a room and you'd have a thousand different variations of the disorder.
Jonah is on the moderate to severe end of the spectrum. When he was first diagnosed, he had very little language. He only used about ten words. I say used because he said many words, but they were not functional. He would just spout them out, echo what he heard. Now he has a vocabulary of hundreds of words and speaks in sentences. He still has a long way to go, but he's come a long way.
The most common form of therapy, or method, used in teaching children with Autism is called ABA or Applied Behavior Analysis. You can find out more information on Autism and ABA at autismspeaks.org.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
