During the day of teaching students with disabilities a teacher may not see the "lightbulb" go on. Today was an exception for me. I was teaching my 3rd graders different strategies they can use and a student told me he can't use his classmates strategy because that would be stealing. Of course I used this time to teach him it is not stealling but learning. Later during the class I hear the student tell another student, "That is called a strategy and you can use it if you want. It is not stealing it is LEARNING" I loved it. Sometimes you need these small "lightbulb" moments to make it as a teacher!
That is amazing Jessica! I love those light bulb moments. You definitely need light bulb moments as a teacher and I would imagine even more-so as a special education teacher. I am good friends with a special education teacher at my school and I love to hear her stories about the progress the students are making. Especially the little moments when she thought that nothing was getting through to them and then they are able to complete a task on their own that they have been working on for months. It does make it all worth it. I think it’s absolutely adorable that the one student was concerned about stealing and wanted to make sure that he wasn’t going to do something wrong. That is a great teaching moment and I’m glad you were able to capitalize on it.
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