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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit
Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic […]
Improvising Great Classroom Discussion
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on May 18, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. I was watching a video of several of my students teaching this week. I had to be away for a conference, and they were scheduled to teach that day anyway, so I asked our Center for Teaching Excellence to […]