Tag: school

Study tip for if time boundaries freak u out

kuttithevangu:

You know how study tips are always like “set a timer!”, well… knowing I only have a certain amount of time freaks out Professor Jiggly, the cat who drives my brain. So I have never been able to do that

But keeping track of time is useful

So here’s my solution: instead of setting a timer to count down, set a stopwatch to count up. You can have an approximate target amount to work before taking a break, but the timer won’t interrupt you if you’re focused and you won’t be distracted by the thought that you only have 20 mins or whatever

You just look at the clock when you feel like taking a break and it will maybe say “that was five minutes” at which point you can go argh! I will force myself to keep working! Or it will maybe say “that was 25 minutes” and you can be like “I am a powerhouse”

Also if you have the stopwatch on your phone, it discourages using your phone

I have NEVER BEEN ABLE TO USE TIMERS but I discovered this trick recently and it helps …… a lot

autismus-obscurus:

candidlyautistic:

sbroxman-autisticquestions:

To other autistic people, in school, did you struggle at summarising things and explaining how you came to a certain answer during tests?

I never understood the “Explain your answer thing” because my explanation was always “this is what you taught us” and that went for everything from math to english.

it wasn’t until after I was out of highschool that I ever really figured that stuff out.

In any language-related tests I did pretty well with this because it only asked for citing stuff from the text when this question came up. But Math?

I tutor two middle-school girls in math and I still don’t know how to solve these “Explain your answers” thing. Math is literally just “yes, you do this and then this and if you haven’t made a mistake the answer makes sense”. It’s just a series of logical steps.

I don’t get it.

therapsida:

it’s funny how providing accommodations to a disabled student is “unfair to the rest of the class” yet imposing a standard on a disabled student that is based on the capabilities of able-bodied students is fair and impartial, isn’t it funny how that works?

therubbleoroursins:

I am currently both a teacher and a student, and I am of the apparently controversial opinion that late work should always be accepted. Not just if they have a doctor’s note or their mom’s death certificate. Not just for one or two assignments a semester. Always.

“But that’s unfair to the people who submitted on time!”

I didn’t say you had to give everybody full credit. Drop the grade for each individual assignment by 5% for every day late until it gets down to 20%. Never, ever take it below 20%.

Here’s my rationale:

1. If you are a good educator, then you created that assignment in the first place because YOU WANTED YOUR STUDENTS TO LEARN SOMETHING. You still want them to have an incentive to complete that learning experience even if it’s not “on time.”

2. You want to prepare your students for the the real world, right? Well, if you missed a deadline (for example, submitting report cards), would your boss throw away everything you’d worked on, dock your paycheck, and tell you to try again next time? No. They would be upset with you, but they would ask you to take time out of your schedule to finish the project as quickly as possible. It wouldn’t cease to exist.

3. Based on point #2, if you are teaching high school or below, not accepting late work is holding children (who by the way, generally do not have full control over their schedules or what materials they have access to) to a higher standard than adults. 

4. If you are teaching college or graduate school, you are working with adults who are taking years out of their lives and paying thousands of dollars to learn from you. Why make it harder for them than it already is?

5. You have or will teach students with extenuating life circumstances that they don’t tell you about (e.g. chronic illness, caring for children or sick relatives, abusive relationships) because they are embarrassed to share this information or have already been taught to shut up and stop making excuses.

6. You have or will teach students with learning disabilities that they don’t even know about. I was diagnosed with ADHD in high school after years of being treated like I was just a bad kid. I suffered from depression and anxiety for over ten years before I went on medication. I did not even learn the words “executive dysfunction” until I was in grad school.

In conclusion, yes, we all know that being a teacher gives you authority but that’s no reason to flaunt it by imposing restrictions that don’t exist anywhere else in the name of “education.”

themadcapmathematician:

Acessiblity is about more than letting students have extended test time or note-taking assistance. If your class is constructed so that turning in late assignments is either difficult or fucking impossible (because either the curriculum or online program you use doesn’t allow it or becuaee you just don’t wanna do it) its not accessible. Mandatory attendance is not accessible. Charging more for online classes is not accessible. Not offering alternative assignments is not accessible. Confusing syllabus and assignment layouts/instructions/etc. is not accessible. If you cant work with a disabled student to give them a class experience as good and sucessful as everyone else’s, if a disabled student is working just as hard as everyone else and still can’t succeed in your class, your class is Not. Fucking. Accessible.