This Prezi gives a bit of insight of why I chose Special Education
and what I intend on doing with my career. Since I will be finished with school
in the summer, I am hoping to get a job at a residential facility, working with
troubled youth.
My
intended audience for this Prezi is for the people in my class, and for a group
of people that I would present this to, like future students and parents. I
only include a brief overview of each thing because I would have a voice over,
or I would be explaining each slide. I learned about Special Education because
of Professor Frick, and my experience I have had with my work and with my
volunteerism. In high school, I took a class called Career Mentorship, where I
took personality tests and decided what I might possibly want to do with my
future. My teacher recommended The Buckeye Ranch, and from my first day of
being there, I immediately called my mom and told her it felt like home, I
finally found a place where I knew I wanted to work (this made her cry!) To
this day, I go to the ranch as often as I can, and help out with small groups
and the multi-handicapped ride groups. My real life experiences all come from
working with kids and volunteering. However, one thing I did not add was my
love for animals. I love animal assisted therapy, especially for the drug
addicts and the abused kids. It is a very rewarding job and I love watching the
connections made between animals and kids. You really learn how to connect with
yourself and the kids when using animals and helping them read body language of
themselves, animals and peers.
The
images are, from left to right, the first thank you letter I received from my
first field experience, a coworker and I finishing up our community service
book drive for Nationwide Children's Hospital, Danny, a pony at the Ranch, and
his new hairstyle given to him by some of the girls that live there, a young
child who is paralyzed and participating in Animal Therapy, and lastly, the
bell all resident's who have a successful discharge get to ring when leaving
the ranch. They ring it three times. The first ring represents the past, the
second right represents the present, and the last ring represents the future.
The websites I chose are both just great references to keep on hand when
teaching. Lastly, the Youtube video is a great "day in the life of a
special education teacher" video. I am not sure it could be any more on
point with our busy days!
I have used
Prezi before in other classes, so I am very familiar with the program. The only thing I don't like, and still don't like, is how not "user friendly"
clicking to type in their text boxes are. Also, some previous slide
patterns I have chosen with Prezi, did not have enough slides and I had to add my own,
which made things out of order. Adding a voice over is pretty simple, but can
be very time consuming. I love Prezi and plan on introducing it to my fourth
graders this coming week in Ohio History and transportation!
