hyperlexian wrote:
Jtuk wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
i have had some very big successes with students. i do know what works.
your own experiences do not equal the very best teaching for all aspies. when i was an aspie student i had accelerated education in my strong areas and i was still a dropout. your ideas are not universal to all aspies.
It sounds like we had opposite experiences, I was pretty much unnoticed in school. I scraped through school on the basis of my strengths.
So, how did a drop out end up becoming a teacher? I'm really curious how you made that jump.
Jason
i went to university as a non-matriculated mature student when i was 25. you don't need to have a high school diploma if you are over a certain age. after i got my university degree, i was awarded a high school diploma based on work experience because i needed to have it in order to teach in certain jurisdictions.
Me too, masters degree at 30 (accepted on basis of work experience). I also completed this online and part-time with no face to face tuition. Postgrad study is pretty much self-directed learning so this was ideal for me.
It's pretty interesting that we have had pretty different school experiences, you seem to have been pushed to excel in your areas of interest, where mine went unnoticed.
*shrug* perhaps your right, aspies left to their own devices are going to follow their interests anyway. Getting whatever form of traditional education through to them while you have their attention makes some sense.
I have found the main general forum pretty depressing, so many people are leaving school and drifting into their 20's with no direction and no confidence or recognition of their abilities. That why I was a bit narky with some of the earlier responses to this thread. It came across that an interest (and possible career) was being crushed.
Jason
03 Mar 2012, 1:54 pm
