Journal on the Online Tutorials

I realized I have not written on the my reaction to the online tutorial called Concept to Classroom from the first six weeks of class. During the first few weeks of the course, the idea of interdisciplinary learning was a very new concept to me. As I have never been a teacher, outside of being a substitute teacher at a high school for two years, I have never taught from a curriculum before. Though it was great to learn about this topic in this sort of way. I liked that I could easily look up new “buzz” words right on the page and that there was video for me to watch as professionals in the field talked about the new concepts. And with the new concepts I have been able to look at my assignments in this class, like the collaborative ITU projects, and use them as a frame of reference into the lesson that I am in the process of making . It's unfortunate that I probably will never use the curriculum that we are writing as a group, but I sure that skills that I am learning along the way will be used in some sort of fashion as a behavior analyst. May it be coming up with a collaborative plan for a individual and their different caretakers or with my coworkers as we open a new autism school in the next year.