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Going into the ACP program, I did not know what to expect. I didn't know what my partner, Ashley, was able to do or if I would even be able to communicate with her. Turns out it ended to be one of the most influential parts of my teaching path. I loved working with her and getting to know her more every day. Academic wise, we mainly worked with math and reading, but we also worked on her social skills.
One challenge I experienced was finding activities that were fun and interesting, while still teaching her those key concepts. I came up with a lot of really fun activities that my future students might enjoy. One thing I absolutely loved doing was helping her with problems she was struggling with. I broke it down for her and we solved it step by step. This is something I will take to my teaching career because I will have students that need a little more support, and by working together and breaking the large problem into smaller pieces, they can understand it more clearly.
Working with the ACP students made me realize how diverse student's abilities are. Of course in an ACP classroom, teachers have to work with all sorts of disabilities, but even in a regular classroom there is a variety of different levels a student can be at. In a high school classroom, you can have a student reading at a college level, but then another student still reading at a 7th grade level. As a teacher, you have to figure out how to teach everyone.
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