“Every student comes with an invisible backpack, you as well.” Said Tracy from BCEdAccess, our guest speaker from this week’s class. This class was particularly interesting to me as someone with a learning disability that was only diagnosed after my second year of university. I think it is incredibly important to expose future teachers to guest speakers such as Tracy and Kaori, who can speak upon their experiences with the education system.

They also spoke about the designation letter system and provided the class with advice to help our futures in education. They taught us the designation letter system, where students are categorized by letter based on their disability type. This system seems outdated to me. Here is a link to the Abbotsford school district list: Abbotsford School District Learning Support Services. They advised us to read student’s IEP‘s before the beginning of the year so that we are prepared for sensitivities and suchlike when the term begins. They made an important note saying that technology isn’t accessible to everyone, and that this became apparent during Covid-19, when online school rose in popularity.