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Welcome to the NoodleNook Podcast with Ayo Jones. We are breaking down strategies, tools, and resources to help self-contained educators teach students with significant disabilities including Autism. Learn tips and tricks to manage behavior, improve communication, and build vocational skills in less time and with less stress. Work smarter, not harder. Ayo Jones has coached hundreds of teachers, trained thousands of educators, and her blog has reached over a million readers.
A little bit about me... My name is Ayo Jones.
I started teaching mid-year in 2005 at an inner city school where my only directions before the door closed on the classroom my first day was “Don’t let them out.” The students had little structure or instruction as they’d been shuffling through subs up until then. I had my work cut out for me and it was an extremely challenging year that inspires me to want to help other new teachers, those fresh out of alt-cert who have been placed in Autism units or Special Ed classrooms, and even vets who need some tried and true tricks to make the days easier.
As a special education teacher, I have taught with the self-contained model, the resource model, the co-teach model, the in-class support model, and the traditional teaching model with general, special, and exceptional students. With that said, I believe all educators have an opportunity to change the lives of children every day.
For the last 5 years, I coached teachers working with high school students who have severe and profound disabilities just outside Houston, Texas. Starting this year, I'll be moving to Ghana, West Africa and hope to continue to make positive change from abroad. I participate in several conferences throughout the year guiding teachers, administrators, para-professionals, and parents on how to educate students with low-incidence disabilities. I am a wife, mother of four, and avid learner.
NoodleNook.Net is a compilation of resources, teaching strategies, and activities to use as a guidebook of sorts so you can plan your trip. In this little nook, imagination can be sparked, ideas hatched, and inspiration discussed.
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