I Need Ideas Martinaville!, a couple things Options

[Stephanie]

~ I am friends with this teacher who teaches at a special needs school for adults. The school teaches on like job hunting, and skills you need to know in adult life. Well, she asked me if I would come in and talk to one of the classes on following your dreams, never giving up etc. She wants me to talk about graduating with my associates and getting my license at 21 years old. I'm wondering how I should present this. I want the presentation to be interesting, and I also want it to be something that the students would understand and get a lot out of. Does anyone have any ideas on what I could say? I thought about including a song about following your dreams but I'm not sure if the students would understand it. These people have like Down Syndrome, autism, and among other things. So if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it!

~ Also, I was informed that a school district will be hiring for preschool teachers in the fall. You only have to have an associates degree. I thought about just waiting and trying to be a Head Start teacher. Should I go for this? It's the same school district I student taught for, and they told me they start at 21 dollars an hour and have benefits.

[Steve]

~ I am friends with this teacher who teaches at a special needs school for adults. The school teaches on like job hunting, and skills you need to know in adult life. Well, she asked me if I would come in and talk to one of the classes on following your dreams, never giving up etc. She wants me to talk about graduating with my associates and getting my license at 21 years old. I'm wondering how I should present this. I want the presentation to be interesting, and I also want it to be something that the students would understand and get a lot out of. Does anyone have any ideas on what I could say? I thought about including a song about following your dreams but I'm not sure if the students would understand it. These people have like Down Syndrome, autism, and among other things. So if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it!

~ Also, I was informed that a school district will be hiring for preschool teachers in the fall. You only have to have an associates degree. I thought about just waiting and trying to be a Head Start teacher. Should I go for this? It's the same school district I student taught for, and they told me they start at 21 dollars an hour and have benefits.

Hi Stephanie

Perhaps you can separate the presentation into 4 parts with real examples.

1. Dreams
2. Goals
3. Desires
4. Wants/needs


PS: good luck on the pre-school job. It sounds like a good way to get exposure and experience.

[Becky]

like someone told me take the better job and money, that was a good idea for the presentation!

[Kaite]

Since these students are challenged you want to keep your presentation simple. I would start out by introducing yourself. Something like, Hello everyone, My name is Stephanie. How is everyone today, are you having a good day? etc.

Then ask them if any of them ever had a dream or a goal they wanted to reach. If they say yes (hopefully one of them will) then you can ask them what that dream was. Scan the room for anyone that didn't answer and ask them why they didn't. Then you could start in with well when I was younger I always wanted to be a teacher. I had a dream that I would someday be teaching. I wasn't always sure I would be able to attain that dream (and tell them why) then just build off ofthat. Tell them of the struggle you faced while obtaining your dream but most importantly that you didn't give up even when you felt like you were never going to make it.

Basically you just have to keep it really simple and short to the point so you keep their attention. Maybe you could make up some really cute stickers, decorate them up and write something like "I'm going to follow my dream" and give each student a sticker at the end of your presentation so they can wear it and be proud. (kind of like a name tag sized sticker thing.

Just a few suggestions on what I would do if were asked to do a presentation. good luck

This post has been edited by Kaite: May 14 2007, 03:31 PM

[Stephanie]

Since these students are challenged you want to keep your presentation simple. I would start out by introducing yourself. Something like, Hello everyone, My name is Stephanie. How is everyone today, are you having a good day? etc.

Then ask them if any of them ever had a dream or a goal they wanted to reach. If they say yes (hopefully one of them will) then you can ask them what that dream was. Scan the room for anyone that didn't answer and ask them why they didn't. Then you could start in with well when I was younger I always wanted to be a teacher. I had a dream that I would someday be teaching. I wasn't always sure I would be able to attain that dream (and tell them why) then just build off ofthat. Tell them of the struggle you faced while obtaining your dream but most importantly that you didn't give up even when you felt like you were never going to make it.

Basically you just have to keep it really simple and short to the point so you keep their attention. Maybe you could make up some really cute stickers, decorate them up and write something like "I'm going to follow my dream" and give each student a sticker at the end of your presentation so they can wear it and be proud. (kind of like a name tag sized sticker thing.

Just a few suggestions on what I would do if were asked to do a presentation. good luck

I like the idea of a badge thing. I'll have to ask Karen how many students are in her class. I'll see about making some up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!!

This post has been edited by Stephanie: May 14 2007, 04:14 PM