Jason Wong

Teaching - taught grade 9 - 10 Science as well as Chemistry - taught grade 1 for 4 years - covered a long term leave for a group of grade 3/4s Experience working with kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder - worked in one-on-one intensive therapy with learners diagnosed with ASD. - transitioned students from the Intensive Behavioural Intervention program in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada to mainstream classrooms. - worked closely with teachers and provided strategies that will assist the successful integration of students with ASD. - delivered workshops to teachers and administration as a ASD consultant for Surrey Place in Toronto, Canada. - gave presentations on topics such as Introduction to ASD, Introduction to Applied Behaviour Analysis, How to use ABA in the classroom, Skill building, How to use Reinforcement in the classroom, Functional Behaviour Analysis.

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I taught for a number of years in the mainstream classroom. At one of the schools I taught at, the administration donated a room for an organization that worked with kids with Autism. At the time I did not know what Autism was or what are some of the challenges these students faced. Upon returning to Toronto with my girlfriend (now wife), she persuaded me to try working with kids with learning disabilities. In hindsight, it was one of the most profound decisions that impacts on every way I teach today. I worked in the field of ASD for three years. I learned about what ABA was and how to apply it to teach students of all ability levels. I found that although children with ASD need to be taught with tight ABA programming and instruction, typically developing children respond extremely well to some of the basic principles of ABA. If you take one thing away from reading this Bio, take away that Reinforcement can go a long way of improving classroom behaviour if used with the right ratio and given contingently upon behaviours that are appropriate for classroom learning. Teachers traditionally argue that they wish to have the students intrinsically motivated, but how do you build that into the student's values? They must succeed first and know the feeling of success, pair that with social praise and over time a student will value that feeling of accomplishment.