Lit & Lit 1 - UH - Swim - F2006
Lit & Lit 1 - UH - Swim - F2006
Kia's Reflection to Chapter 19 - How to Help Children Catch Up
I see this chapter as a very detailed follow-up to the last chapter. This chapter takes us into more detail and shows us ways to help children with these handicaps that start out as merely cosmetic, but later, create real hazards in writing. I think it is best to avoid these situation all-together when possible. This is something that has to be done in the early years of elementary, but does not only happen in school. As an early-elementary school teacher, I think it is important to make sure parents know how to best guide their children to make their learning as positive as it can be.
For many parents it can be difficult. Because every parent wants the best for their child, they expect their child to BE the best. They push them, sometimes excessively, in hopes of a positive outcome - better performance. That is not always the case. Some of the time, they end up hurting them in the long run, which is the kind of problems we see in this chapter.
When this happens the teacher has to do a reversal, try to figure out what the cause of the problem was in the first place and carefully change the way the child views himself/herself as a writer. It can takes months, but is worth it for the sake of the child.
I have a few students in my class who I think may benefit from this material and only a few short weeks with them, but I am going to use my new knowledge from this chapter and see if I can help them.
Kia's Reflection to Chapter 19 - How to Help Children Catch Up
I see this chapter as a very detailed follow-up to the last chapter. This chapter takes us into more detail and shows us ways to help children with these handicaps that start out as merely cosmetic, but later, create real hazards in writing. I think it is best to avoid these situation all-together when possible. This is something that has to be done in the early years of elementary, but does not only happen in school. As an early-elementary school teacher, I think it is important to make sure parents know how to best guide their children to make their learning as positive as it can be.
For many parents it can be difficult. Because every parent wants the best for their child, they expect their child to BE the best. They push them, sometimes excessively, in hopes of a positive outcome - better performance. That is not always the case. Some of the time, they end up hurting them in the long run, which is the kind of problems we see in this chapter.
When this happens the teacher has to do a reversal, try to figure out what the cause of the problem was in the first place and carefully change the way the child views himself/herself as a writer. It can takes months, but is worth it for the sake of the child.
I have a few students in my class who I think may benefit from this material and only a few short weeks with them, but I am going to use my new knowledge from this chapter and see if I can help them.
posted by Kia Guebara | 3:07 PM
1 Comments:
In response to Kia's Reflection, I was very interested to read this chapter as well. I wasn't asigned to read it in my group but I did skim through it. I wanted to read Kia's reflection to get the overall picture of the chapter. It sounds like chapter 19 is very useful information. It probably works best for children in the upper level grades and hopefully when I change to 4th grade next semester I'll be able to point out a possible situation such as the one mentioned in Kia's reflection (of helping a child catch up). I didn't realize that parents wanting the best for their child can actually steer the child away from doing their best academically . In a way it makes sense. Children may not want to try because they may feel their parents expect way too much than they can offer. I hope as a teacher I will be able to help children and parents have a good learning/school experience and produce positive outcomes.
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