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I really come in on the Science end of STEM. I am not the strongest problem solver and only worked on one major novel research project for a few months while in college but I have always had a great interest in how the world around me works. I was always fascinated by animals and loved learning about the human body. Chemistry could be great fun in school and I found lots of it to be quite intuitive. Physics was quite boring to me (my teacher certainly was no help), but long after college my interest was piqued, and I do read books and watch documentaries about Space and mind bending theoretical stuff. I can appreciate the arguments that Physics, with its Mathematical basis is the central Science. I try to tell people that STEM should reach back to the childhood sense of wonder, and should allow us to ask more focused questions. Kids learn by trying things out and coming up with predictions about what will happen. What parent does not get slain by the “Whys?” and “but Why’s?”. Ther

ED 630 Someone Else’s Kids Liam Breathnach In the book Somebody Else’s Kids by Torey Hayden you are given a viewpoint into a year in a special education classroom with four students. Boo is Autistic, Lori has severe reading issues due to a traumatic brain injury, Claudia is an over achiever, but is also 12 and pregnant and Tomasso is a real challenge to Torey with his behaviour. Things that jump out for me when reading the book are the goals that Torey has for the year. Education in the typical sense takes a back seat to the overall well-being of the children, and Torey spends time making sure they are learning how to deal with their issues. The foundations of their education are learning how to handle themselves in a way which will allow them to function in the classroom. That moves the goalposts from the requirements in a regular classroom. Through conflict between Torey and Lori’s regular classroom teacher, we see that not everyone is capable of, or wants to make this c