About Me

Hello,

My name is Megan Peters and I'm in my senior year at Grand Valley. I'm studying Elementary Special Education with endorsement areas in Cognitive Impairments and Emotional Impairments. I'm from a small town in Northern Michigan so I like to be outdoors and near the water whenever I am able. I have a large family and am very close with many of my cousins. We get together often and play games or watch movies. I really enjoy baking and cooking when recipes don't call for too many ingredients. This past May I went to Tanzania on a study abroad trip and we did so many amazing things. I was able to teach daily, go on two safaris, climb Mount Kilimanjaro and visit an orphanage in addition to so many other culturally enriching experiences.

I don't have much experience creating my own ways of planning and using technology in the classroom. When I was at Lakeshore Middle School in Grand Haven this past fall working with students with autism, I saw many great examples and was able to use technology in the classroom nearly every day. All of my students had their own chrome books and used them daily to do typing lessons, practice their spelling words or create writing pieces. My students also used their chrome book's calculator and calendar when working through math worksheets. My teacher and I would use the document camera to project images on the screen larger for the students or to do problems together. This was used for them to copy math problems that we solved as a whole class or read a story together. We also used Google Classroom each day to work through our different subjects by watching videos, collaborating on a Google doc or doing small amounts of research for a science experiment. My students followed a daily schedule that was placed on the board each morning as well as went through the daily and weekly weather and looking at the radar. There was an iPad and Kindle in the classroom that often served as individual timers for students to signal when their break time was over and they needed to begin working again. These were also used as rewards for the students when they followed their behavior plans and earned reward time. My cooperating teacher was a great model for planning and using technology in the classroom so when I was observed teaching my own lessons, I tried to incorporate technology as much as possible.