We are continually monitoring students progress across the district and teachers contact me when they get new students who may need a quick assessment or need intervention.
So last week, I got this phone call from a teacher about a new student in her classroom. After meeting with a teacher, and the other resource support teachers who were also working with this student, it was decided that the child would be placed in my program. Those who currently were working with this student had some big concerns... mainly with motivation. Their perspective was that this learner didn't connect with other students and was not interested in their help. I have to admit that set my mind to thinking, and I attempted to establish a plan to engage this student in learning the letters, sounds and, most importantly, the importance of taking the opportunity to hear others and be heard within our literacy setting.
I titled this blog..."Kids can sometimes surprise you..." because this new friend did. When this student arrived the first day on the bus, the student was hesitant, but engaged. This child is just completing their second day in my setting and is talking with the other students, making friends, reading during read-to-self time, participating in whole class activities and seems extremely content to try things and ask questions.
Sometimes it takes a little time for kids to understand that when their parents tell them they are starting in a new classroom and they are going there everyday...they meant it. New school environments can be daunting for anyone. Perhaps these few weeks in a new classroom in the home school was just the time needed to observe the lay of the land before jumping into the learning.
I am so excited to be working with this early learner and to help this child see them self as a reader and writer.
until later~
b~
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