Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Mentoring Project
So i am still doing my mentoring project at a local elementary school. One of the children in my group has a language delay. He has become my buddy over the last few weeks and I have gotten to spend a majority of my time helping him with various projects. He class me "vd" I am not sure why..maybe he can't say Sandy. Sometimes he is unintelligible and I have no idea what he is saying or asking for. It really makes me want to work hard and finish getting my degree and masters so that I can help him and other children like him. One thing I have noticed is that sometimes when doing various assignments other teachers will come over and fill in his sheets for him or write the answers down for him. It seems like he may not understand whats going on or it might take him a little bit longer than everyone else. Instead of giving him that extra time they just do it for him. It just made me think about how we talked about accomidations and modifications in class. I get that it might be easier to do it for him but I feel like that is not really helping him. It just makes me sad for him and motivates me to work hard and finish school!
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Love that passion! The interesting things to think about are...what is it that they want him to know? In what ways could he demonstrate that knowledge? Are there accommodations that could be made so that he could learn that information and show that he does understand it if he were given the opportunity to learn it in a way other than through a "verbal/linguistic" manner? If you're not able to impact that change with THIS student it's good to think about it for your own students in the future!
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