Discussion: Neurodiversity (General) – Week One

sarahross March 7, 2023 1 Comment

Prompts:

1. Check out one or more of the resources on Neurodiversity in the Resources tab. Comment here to share a response to the particular resource(s) and extend the discussion.
2. And/or review our notes from Week One and craft a response to something within the notes that sparks your interest.
3. And/or take one or more of the guiding questions from our first meeting (see below) and write a comment in response.
4. And/or add responses to other comments posted here.
5. And/or share and comment on a resource not posted within our resources page. Please only share links and not PDFs.

All comments will post on the Home page and also within the Discussion tab.

Guiding questions for our discussion

1. Why is it important for you to participate in a weekly discussion about neurodiversity?
2. What do you need in order to be fully YOU?
3. All people have areas of strength and areas that they can improve upon. How do you work with students to help them learn about their strengths and areas of challenge? 
4. We regularly celebrate diversity in educational settings. Have you ever celebrated neurodiversity in an educational setting? If you have, how did you go about celebrating neurodiversity in your department? How did you celebrate neurodiversity institution-wide? How might you celebrate neurodiversity in the future? 
5.  For some students, decoding words in math assignments may take up extra space that otherwise would have been devoted to solving equations. For other students, anxiety or trauma may be restricting their cognitive space. Think about your students. What might be restricting their cognitive space?  
6.  What can you do to help one student be better prepared to learn in your   class?  
7.  What do you hope to get out of the next 8 weeks of discussion about   neurodiversity?