Interview With Michelle Niinisto

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The teacher I choose to interview was Michelle Niinisto. Mrs. Niinisto has been teaching for 14 years. This is her first year teaching general education. She is currently an 8th grade language arts and social studies teacher at Hyre Community Learning Center. Before this year she taught special education, with a focus on deaf and hard of hearing. She spent about 4 years teaching second and third grade deaf special education. She had explained to me since the questions I was going to ask her were mostly about phonics, that she would have to go back to her elementary teacher days. She explained to me that really once they get past 3rd grade, general education teachers don’t tend to focus on phonic. She said they did a little bit of phonics in

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