Amanda Morin

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 424: Creating Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools, with Amanda Morin & Emily Kircher-Morris · 21 Jan 2025 podcast

If you have a student who doesn't want to do an a written report, could they do a video, right?

Could they do a presentation, that kind of thing?

But I think when it really comes down to universal design for learning, one of the first things is examining what the barriers might be in the classroom, right?

And it's proactive.

It's a matter of looking at the lessons that you're teaching.

And looking at it from a perspective of what might be the place where people get stuck and how can I change that ahead of time.

So in real time I'm not

frustrated my students aren't frustrated.

Where are there things that I can change?

But even more importantly, it's about knowing what your goal is, right?

So for example, if you are teaching about, and I use this example a lot, Allison Posey used this and I loved it.

If you're teaching about the life cycle of a butterfly, right?

Is your goal to have your students do a perfectly handwritten grammar perfect summary of the life cycle of a butterfly?

Or is your goal for them to know what the life cycle of the butterfly looks like, right?

And if that's the goal, then the other thing is can sort of stay in the background and take the pressure off.

The other piece of that is letting your students know ahead of time what the goal is, right?

I think a lot of times we go into lessons and we're doing this roundabout kind of way.

I actually, you know, and I and I'm gonna interrupt myself because that's neurodivergence right there, right?

To say like I had a student who said to me, you know what I don't love is when teachers go into a classroom and they like they start this whole thing and they do the whole activity and they haven't told you what we're supposed to learn.

And I thought that was such a reflective thing for this teenager to say to me, because he was right, right?

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