Doctoral Student Feature: Sean Tikkun
Technology and STEM with a little bit of Math and Braille
Sean Tikkun, Doctoral Candidate, Northern Illinois University,
stikkun@niu.edu
It is such an honor to introduce myself to the CEC DVIDB
community. I have been attending CEC now for 3 years and have
loved being able to talk and share with other teachers across the
nation. My name is Sean Tikkun and I am a doctoral candidate at
Northern Illinois University in Educational Psychology. I am a
National Leadership Consortium in Sensory Disabilities (NLCSD)
fellow in my final year of studies. I have chosen to move into the
University setting after 15 years of teaching in mathematics, as a
TVI and an O&M in schools. The focus of my dissertation centers on
how students who are blind and visually impaired learn
mathematics. Most research has focused on how arithmetic and
new standards make reasoning and logic more critical to student
success. I hope to continue this line of research after graduating so
that teachers in the field can make research informed decisions to
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