Mary Liebes
Today I met with Glenn Duncan's two special education teachers, Mrs. Ballard who works with children in grades 4,5 and 6 and Mrs. Lynn who works with children in grades K-3. On this particular day I went with Mrs. Ballard, shadowing her and meeting the children she works with. We began the morning by traveling to a fifth grade class where we worked with a young man named Paul who had been having problems understanding fractions. As we pulled Paul to the side of the room for some one on one learning Mrs. Ballard showed me the best style of learning that worked for him, visual and hands on learning. And for the next half an hour Paul, Mrs. Ballard and I worked together on fractions using blocks, a special work book for Paul, and a dry erase board, all of which helped him to learn the concept of fractions. From there we went to Mr. William's fifth grade class where I met and worked with a young man named Wade with math. Wade seemed to be quiet and shy but he had no trouble! expressing to me that he did not understand what they were doing in class. As I sat beside Wade I asked him what they were working on and he explained to me the math they were to be doing but he also exp
e went to a fourth grade class where again we worked with a group of about four kids on reading and comprehension. Each day these students would get together and read a few pages out of a book provided to them by Mrs. Lynn. At times they would sit and listen to Mrs. Lynn read, and other times they would read out loud alone and still other times they would all read as a whole. After recapping what they had read the day before we went on to have a discussion about what we had just read. After the discussion Mrs. Lynn gave them a small assignment of finding and writing down compound and complex words. All the students seemed to enjoy being in the group except one little girl named Nani. She was very reluctant to even join the group session but it was her parents will that she did go. Nani did not participate in discussion and did not read when she was asked to read but when she did blurt out an answer Mrs. Lynn made sure to tell her good job but to raise her hand and wait ! to be called upon. From my experiences today I realized the huge difference between working independently with one child and working with a larger group of children. m he finally got everything out so that we could get started but the only problem was he didn't know what he was supposed to do. I asked the three other boys in the group Wade was in what they were to be doing and they explained to Wade and I the problems they were to do. Now that everything was settled we were finally able to get started. I went over the steps to complete the problems with Wade and after a couple problems I had him work as independently as he could on the rest. Mr. William's modifies Wades work so that he does not have to complete as much as the other students but Wade is required to keep up with the progress of the rest of the class, something Mrs. Ballard thinks he is having trouble with doing. From there we went back to the special education classroom where we worked with Kayla. Latisha was absent today. Kayla was now working on the second half of her two's (2*7,2*8,2*9,2*10,2*11,2*12). We had her recite them frontwards and backwards when she decid!
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