Hey everyone,
My name is Kristen Gregory and I am a junior this year. My major is Deaf Education and my minor is American Sign Language. I am from Columbus, Ohio and drive around 4 hours to get home. I am currently on EKU's Dance Theatre and absolutely love it. I have been dancing my entire life. With my major I want to teach elementary school, probably 4th or 5th grade. I fell in love with sign language my freshman year. In my high school sign language wasn't taught but I knew that I loved it and I had to go to a college that had a great program. I am so happy I chose EKU for so many different reasons. But the main one is that their ASL and deaf education program is so great. In just a few years I have learned so much, one of my really good friends is deaf and I met him through EKU and it is great to be able to communicate with him.
I hope that this class really teaches me a lot about education the Deaf and Hard of hearing, and after the first day alone I know it is going to. I am taking this class not only because it is required but because it is actual skills I will use in everyday life when I get out of college. It feels so great to finally be learning things that go along with what I want to do in my life. I cant wait for the rest of the semester and to get to know each and every one of you. I love sharing similar stories and having things in common with people in my class, and since everyone in that class loves ASL I know we will all get a long great.
Thanks for reading,
Kristen Gregory
EKU will provide you many opportunities and you will also be able to seek out many more in this area on your own. This course provides a significant amount of information about deafness and the educational system. We don't have nearly as much time to get into "methodology" as I would like. But, we will do that some in latter chapters. I try to make up for that by integrating as much methodology as I can by how I teach the content and drawing connections to that. One example is the Historical Figure project. We'll discuss the why and how you're doing this project and how that relates to teaching students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
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