How Should Mrs. Parker Teaching Brice

A. How should Mrs. Parker proceed?
I think Mrs. Parker should proceed teaching Brice the short vowels and see if him missing the first few days had impacted his understanding. Brice might just be having trouble with this particular section and needs a little extra time. He had missed the first four days of school after the holiday so maybe Brice forgot what he had learned. Due to his absence, he also missed the first few days of the unit on short vowels and maybe needs to be taught the lesson from the beginning. If Brice still has trouble with it then Mrs. Parker needs to use observation to help her make the best decision going forward. Mrs. Parker should also use the prereferral process to help her find out the problem. Mrs. Parker might need to do a search on sinus and ear infection. Doing a research will help Mrs. Parker identify if a

Parker find out what is going on with Brice. In the book it was noted that observation is “perhaps the most widely used form of assessment” (Taylor, p.g 35). It is important that Mrs. Parker uses this type of assessment to find out what is causing Brice to forget what he had learned and what is causing him to have trouble understanding the short vowels. Mrs. Parker needs to also identify if Brice is only having trouble with understanding short vowels or if he is also struggling with other lessons as well. Before Mrs. Parker makes any decisions she has to identify what is the problem and if her suspicion is correct. Mrs. Parker can also use the prereferral process to achieve this. Prereferral process is “undertaken when a disability is suspected but is not severe enough to warrant a referral without further investigation” (Taylor, p.g 32). It is possible that Brice is developing a disability, but it is not severe enough to identify. Any of the other decisions that Mrs. Parker makes is a follow up and is a decision based on