ELSE 6183: Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Reflection offers you the opportunity to consider how your personal experiences and observations shape your thinking and your acceptance of new ideas. I encourage you to explore your own ideas about this course, the assignments, and personal experiences as they relate to teaching children with ASD. This personalized reflection assignment is designed to help you intentionally and thoughtful reflect upon the experiences in this course and what you learned from them as they apply to CEC Standards.

As with all written assignments, it is important to have a clear focus for your writing. You do not need to discuss every experience or assignment. Categories include: Self-disclosure, Connection to outside experiences, Connection to readings, Connection to class discussions & Course objectives. Choose a few assignments that you can explore within the context of your placement and their relation to the Standards (refer back to syllabus or CEC website if you are not familiar with the Standards). In this reflection, you should maintain a formal tone, but it is acceptable to write in the first person and to use personal pronouns. This paper should be approximately 2.5 pages long.

The content of your paper must minimally include the following:

· Discussion on what you have learned during the class and how it will assist you in achieving further academic and work-related goals.

· Discuss assignments in the course as they relate to the CEC Standards.

· A discussion of how what was learned from chapter readings, personal research, and course related assignments.

· A discussion of personal experiences both positive and negative (weakness and strengths) as they relate to the course, student learning, and impact on teaching during COVID-19.