STEM school supports students with autism | Teacher offers ideas for student-centered, competency-based rubrics | Principal recounts daily pandemic routine
Students with autism learn STEM skills such as coding and programming in an environment tailored to their needs at the Science Prep Academy in Arizona. The school, considered to be the first of its kind, is intended to nurture neurodiverse students and help them leverage their skills in fields such as physics, says educator and founder Kenneth Mims.
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Greg Moffitt, principal of Fairmont Charter Elementary School in California, shares a typical day leading a school during the coronavirus pandemic. In this commentary, Moffitt writes that his day begins at 5:15 a.m. and is spent testing students for the virus, working to fill vacancies due to staff absences and personally filling in for teachers.
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Watching documentaries, films or other types of videos are best used in class to support lessons while enhancing student engagement, says Karen Beerer, senior vice president of teaching and learning at Discovery Education. Beerer and other teachers share their ideas about using films in class, including middle-school social studies teacher Britton Barnes, who sticks with short videos and sometimes uses an app that pauses videos to pose questions to viewers.
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Helping young adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities is the focus of a new mentorship program at Tennessee State University. The nondegree-certificate program will pair students with disabilities with peers who are majoring in special education and aims to better prepare students with disabilities for the workforce.
Research published in JAMA Network Open found children born to mothers with eating disorders may have a higher risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder. Researchers said there was a fourfold greater risk of ASD among children born to mothers with ongoing anorexia and an 80% increased risk for children whose mothers had previous anorexia.
Research published in JAMA Network Open found that myopia progressed more rapidly in children during COVID-19-related lockdowns. Researchers observed that defocus incorporated multiple segments lens treatment was associated with a 12-month progression of axial elongation and myopic progression at 34% and 46%, respectively, compared with single vision lens treatment during lockdown.
