Tutoring

On twitter I recently came across My Town Tutors which is a tutoring site for current teachers or retired teachers. I know that when I begin teaching I would love to tutor children. 

This site believes that teachers are the best tutors which I feel is very true. Teachers have a passion for teaching and helping children. By tutoring they are helping some children even more than just in the classroom. 

They verify that all applicants are currently teachers or that they are retired teachers. Parents will have that sense of confidence that their child is going to be tutored by some of the best.  

They also have an ease of payment. You can write a check pay the teacher cash or make and online payment. 

If you are looking for an easy way to help children learn check out http://www.mytowntutors.com/   you will not be disappointed! 

Autism Awareness Month

It's April which means... it's Autism Awareness Month!!

The Autism Society had been celebrating the National Autism Awareness Month since the 1970s. 

This is a very important to me as an upcoming educator to help spread the word about Autism.

In case some of you do not know Autism is a complex developmental disability which will usually appear within the first three years of a person's life. It affects a person's ability to communicate and interact with other people. 


Since March of 2012 the number of children born with Autism has gone up to 1 in 88 births in the United States. It is almost 1 in 54 boys. 

To care for an Autistic Child it costs about $3.5 to $5 million dollars. 

The U.S pays around $90 billion annually for Autism:

• research 
• insurance and non covered expenses
• medicaid waivers
• educational spending 
• housing
• transportation
• employment
• therapeutic services
• caregiver costs 
  

Inclusion.... as adults

This past weekend I was in Greensburg, PA at a bar called Vickie's Crossroads to see a band play. There were people dancing while the band was playing when I noticed something that as an education major made me very happy. A man who has a disorder went onto the dancer floor right up to a lady and asked her to dance. The lady said yes and they began to dance for quite some time.

When they paused dancing together he went up to other groups of people on the dance floor and began to dance with them. These groups included him in their dancing instead of turning away.

During the concert the singer of the band walks around during some of the songs and has people say one or two words into the mic. The singer went up to this man and had him sing into the mic.

It made me very happy to see how all of these people were including this man like he was one of them.  He seemed very happy to me as I watched the band and people dancing. All of them seemed to have so much fun up there dancing.

I wish children would look at those who are a little different and accept them the way these people accepted this man. It would make life for these individuals a little easier and it would bring joy to so many people.