This past week, a student was removed from the after-school program where I am a homework tutor. I chose this incident, since I am already getting accustomed to the number of students that are in the program, and now there is one less student. This student, “Rick”, goes to the program with his two sisters, and is often bickering with the younger sister. On the first day that I arrived to tutor, he hit his sister which caused her to cry and led to him being reprimanded by my supervisor. When this happened I was confused, and I felt out of place since I was in a new place. I was sitting at a separate table helping other students, so I also felt useless since I could not stop the incident from happening. I only go tutor on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, …show more content…
I asked them about Rick, and they told me he was no longer going to be coming to the program. My supervisor told me that Rick has ADHD, and was not taking his medication. I believe this event taught me more about the type of students I will be working with in the future when I become a teacher. I am only a homework tutor at the moment, but my classroom will most likely have students who have ADHD or a type of learning disability. I believe I should learn more about how to make the classroom a better place for students with ADHD. I have seen how Rick gets when he does not want to do his homework; he will pretend to no longer speak English or just deny having any homework. I also learned about how much patience my supervisor has and how much work she does in order to maintain the after-school program. She has a huge binder full of what the program will do throughout the schoolyear. In my head, I didn’t think any planning went into the program besides just making sure the children come to the location. My supervisor and I have a good relationship, and I no longer feel out of place in the after-school program. I am the only one helping at the after-school program, so there is a lot of pressure that falls on me from my supervisor. There are now nine children in the program, ten before Rick was removed, that I have to help. The only disadvantage there is at the after-school program, is that I cannot
I am currently an English 160 student who is hoping to move on to the next course, which is English 161. I understand the requirements for English 161. It require students to explore a topic in some depth and conduct independent research related to that topic. Conducting research allows students to learn what it is like to participate in academic culture, posing questions about important issues and developing an argument in response to what others have said. It expected students to learn the most valuable skill in college, which is critical thinking. Students have to be able to read challenging readings. Although I still have problems with English, I think I’m qualified to move on.
The incident on October twenty first was too for us much to overlook, we all decided that we had to talk to Susan about this. We told her about how we were treated and how we are not getting anything out of this experience, and also that is it still possible to switch placements. Susan with Sheryl Bird went to the Grant Street Neighborhood Center and saw it themselves. The center was empty full with kids but neither of them was doing homework only using computers.
Sean has just been hired as an assistant in an after-school program for a group of 5-7 years old children. After his first day in the class, he was concerned about some of the activities the leader had set out for the children. Sean was familiar with the guidelines for developmentally appropriate practice and though some of the activities were not age appropriate. As an example, the children were expected to read and then follow the directions for a science project He wanted to say something to the group leader, but he thought that maybe he would just quit!
Ms. Ambriz has been working for the same school for about twelve years, she sees herself as a strict teacher with strong teacher leadership. At the time she had three rows with two paired desks where the student are can work with each other or by themselves. She like to able to walk around the room and to and that is the best way to do it. When testing she rearranges them into rows of individual desk, she also added the students know they will be testing due to the arrangement and immediately begin to whine about the fact they will be taking a test. She doesn’t like group work when she feels that kids deserve it, she puts them in groups of no more than four. She informed me that the Dallas school district loves to see classrooms arranged in group so the kids can have discussion but she hate it, she know her students don’t have subject related conversations and would rather not have them in group year round just on the rare occasion she lets them work in groups. She finds that with the current arrangement she feels more comfortable and so do the students, students can get have a partner but only when the lesson calls for it. Considering she has been teaching or twelve years, her wall were not as impressive as one might think, she had a bulletin board with school wide information, a poster with rules and consequence and equations that were hand written by her on large paper at ...
The intervention central organization (n.d.) declares that, “Punishment generally does not improve student behaviors over the long term and can have significant and lasting negative effects on school performance and motivation”. Standard 1 of the Florida Leadership Standards defines student success when describes, “Student learning results are evidenced by the student performance and growth on statewide assessments; district-determined assessments that are implemented by the district”. In this case study, the school and district administrators used behavior, disposition to follow instructions, and peer relations as their indicator for success. As established in the Part II. Policies and Procedures for Students with Disabilities, Section
Today we are addressing Jammie’s inappropriate behavior in class. Jammie has outburst in class which disrupts the class. Jammie will fall to the floor and scream just to avoid answering questions in class. Jammie will do this during quiet time as well when the students are trying to study for the quiz. The other children are trying to learn but with the distraction of Jammie it is hard to pay attention. My theory is that Jammie does not like to be in class after she has lunch, I feel that she is getting exhausted of class and realizes that school is almost out. I feel that Jammie thinks she will not have to participate in class if she sits out in the hallway.
I was placed in a K-3rd grade ESL classroom at Lincoln K-8 in the Peoria 150 district. This classroom is a traditional pull out style ESL classroom/program. My CT, Mrs. Waskow, pulls students out of their gen ed and bilingual classes to work with them in her classroom on reading and phonics skills. During my practicum time, Mrs. Waskow works with multiple groups of various ages. The first group is a small group of four 1st graders who are pulled out of their mainstream classrooms to work with Mrs. Waskow. The second group is her largest group, a group of about 22 1st/2nd grade bilingual students. She has this group for an hour, her longest time with one group. Jacob is a 2nd grade student in the second group. The last group she works with while
Janice said her son was clearly not wanted at that school, so she took the kids’ stuff and enrolled them into a public school where Alex was much more comfortable. Teachers were more comfortable dealing with children with complex needs. We need to work on accepting and including children with Down Syndrome in local schools so that they are given an equal opportunity to advance their education and become successful.... ... middle of paper ...
I had been working with this student for weeks trying to build a friendly relationship with the student. I wanted the student to feel comfortable around me so he would feel safer in the classroom. I could tell that he was really enjoying having me in the classroom because this week he continuously sat by me when he could and asked for my help first over the teacher. He knew that I would help him with his seatwork along with helping him keep his behavior in check due to the previous interactions we have had over the
This last year has been very difficult and although most of the issues were not school related, they had a major impact on my classes. At the beginning of the year, my Mom left her abusive husband. He was a very controlling person, who if anyone did something he did not like, he would yell and insult the person for hours. While the man was never physically abusive, emotional and verbal abuse can be just as damaging. He was very good at making people, particularly his wife and children, feel like they were worthless. We could not leave the house unless he knew exactly where we would be, who we would be with and exactly how long we would be gone. While this does not seem terrible, it got to the
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work in see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded. Some of the skills I had shocked me as I didn’t think I had those capabilities in me.
On Wednesday I saw that a student was very visibly upset about something so I took him outside of the classroom after asking my SA if I could. The student and I had a good conversation, and he told me that another student was touching his turban and trying to knock it off his head. The student also expressed to me that he knows he is getting angry about the situation and he is trying very hard to
This week during my internship the pace was a bit slow again. However, I learned a lot during this week. I talked to my supervisor about getting more hours and with his approval I am now doing 10 hours a week. It was great to be able to speak about my hours with my supervisor and that he understood me. During this week I had another one-on-one session with a client. I was instructed to show him a video about teenage strategies that lead to success then ask him questions about the video. I knew that my client was a juvenile, but as I walked into the room, I was surprised to see how young the client was. The client was a twelve-year-old boy that came into the program from sexual boundary issues. As I put the video in I read his file that informed me, he has not been participating
Much like Benjamin Franklin believed, I feel that a person should take advantage of the time the person has in life with activities a person wants to do or needs to do. A person should not spend much time on activities the person does not want to do. Life is way too short to concern oneself with work or other activities one wants nothing to do with all the time. When possible, I try to forget about my responsibility and just let go of the ‘things’ that do not matter to me. I think a person should try to occupy oneself with something productive, worthwhile, or necessary at all times. Even though a person’s life is left up to a person to live, I cannot imagine thinking that I owe my time to society through working a job that I simply despise. I am a compassionate person, but I do not owe anyone anything regarding my time.
The teachers were giving the students positive reinforcement throughout the day. In class we talked about how positive reinforcement helps the students to succeed in their classes. Another ah-ha moment was the environment of the classroom. The classroom had no windows at all. In class we talked about what kinds of things are distracting to students with ASD in classrooms and one of those things are the windows in classrooms. The third ah-ha moment was the parent sheets that the teacher and the school provide for the parents. In class we talked about how parent involvement is very important for the students with disabilities. The teacher fills out the parent involvement paper that lets the parents know how the child did in school this week and what their child needs to improve on. The students must give their paper to their parents to look at when they get home. The things that I had learned during my observation experience that I will use in the future for my classroom will be including student learning objectives in the classroom, using positive reinforcement, and get the parents more involved in their child’s education. I will go over with the students what the student learning objectives are in the beginning of class so the students will know what they will be doing and what they will be learning throughout the day. I also will use positive