Educational shenanigans

Using my imagination, I imagine that I am able to conduct research on Autism. A few years ago this was such a mystery disorder and now I currently possess the knowledge to conduct a study to find the underlying issue. My research will need to be conducted on children aged 5-9 males and females with varied spectrum's of this disorder. After conducting this research I was able to find out what cause Autism and a way to help lessen the severity of it, and in some cases was able to cure it with daily medication.  With the information that I gathered from this research i'm able to help many children beginning at a young age who are displaying signs and symptoms of this disorder and provide them with long term medication that will lessen the severity of their disorder. This will make them more successful in their educational path. Further research will be done in a few years to see if the effects of this new medication is still working. However, this medication is now being admini...

I have always had a passion for understanding how children and families function. As I've watched the news and heard about another child harming someone else or being bullied by another child what their parents were doing or how they were reacting to this news. The questions kept forming as I thought about what their involvement was like in their child's life, school, extracurricular activities. I began watching shows and documentaries like "Beyond Scared Straight" I listened to what the parents said, what the children said about their parents, and their silent cries for attention. I realized at that moment that there was a lack of parental involvement in schools and I wanted to know how to change that. What could I do as an educator to increase this and maybe decrease the amount of "chaos" that happens in schools.  All this being said leads up to my topic about the effects of parent/family involvement in schools. I've worked at schools where families ...