One Teach, One Summarize - The HOW of Co-teaching This co-teaching implementation maximizes the talent of both adults in the room, even if one does not know the curriculum verbatim. With this teaching strategy, you are modeling the skill of summarizing and increasing student recall and comprehension [...]
How can we help our employees, neurodivergent and neurotypical, focus and process information better, and have meaningful interactions with management and peers? A healthy brain is as important as a healthy body when it comes to employee learning and productivity. Wise company leaders support both f [...]
Big tech companies have faced a skills gap for years, and the demand for talent in this industry has never stopped growing. So, tech was the perfect ground in which a new movement took hold over the past decade: promoting neurodiversity in the workplace. Neurodiverse hiring practices can benefit any [...]
The How of Co-teaching Models: Many teachers are forced into co-teaching and find themselves paired with another adult in the classroom without any training in the people skills part of the process. They just don’t know what to do or what to say. Yet, what we *say* to each other can make or break our relationship before we even begin.
A few years ago, my husband, an engineer, was hunting for a job. It’s grueling when you’re over 50 and trying to find a job in high tech. After a particularly frustrating day, he came into my office looking completely stressed out. I asked, “What’s wrong?” He said, “I’m an engineer. I’ve done coding [...]