"Special Needs Biography" Survival Spanish by Icornology Assignment for Special Needs Learners UCLA Teacher Credential Program July 2010 My name is Matthew, and I live in Culver City with my wife Alex and 5 year old son Aidan. I spent more than a decade working in the field of marketing research, both in New York and Los Angeles, and am now aspiring to be a secondary science teacher. While I have had no formal teaching experience, I worked for a semester during college as a state paid ESL tutor to adult immigrants in South Florida, and taught English to 5th graders in Shanghai for a month. I...
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"My Personal Journey To Literacy" Survival Spanish by Icornology Assignment for Reading Methods UCLA Teacher Credential Program July 2010 I am always amazed that so many people are able to remember their early childhoods so vividly. For me, I have only a relatively small number of memories of my life before I was around 9 years old, and depend on photographs to be sure in my mind that I was really there. I’m jealous of people who remember more. Maybe I should go under regression hypnotherapy to recapture my childhood :>) Since I don’t remember my early childhood, I honestly don’t recall how I learned to read. I have a few memories of teaching my y...
