2. Early Perceptions
At the beginning I was a little nervous about working so closely
with students who have learning disabilities. Even though I am very
comfortable working with students and I have been in contact with
students who have disabilities, I have never tried to help them
excel in school. So I thought this could be a difficult task.
3. I kept and open mind and heart and prepared myself for whatever
was thrown my way. It did get easier as the class went along. I had
to remind myself every week of all the things we have talked about
over the course of the class.
4. Introduction to the Setting
5. Demographics
6. Personal Demographics
I am a full time student in the College of Education at UCF.
I substitute teach during the day for elementary schools.
I also work at Outback Steakhouse as a server.
I love my family and friends. I try to spend as much time
with them as possible.
I love being active and playing sports of all kinds.
7. Engagement Activities
I worked with two students inparticular in first grade, but also
helped with the slow reading group as well.
I started in February coming to the school every Tuesday for about
an hour or an hour and a half.
8. I worked with my students mainly on reading. I would help them
in different areas as needed, but they were really struggling in
reading so that it where I wanted to help. I did reading
assessments on them also to see if they had progressed.
9. How Get Real Help Started..
My sister is in the Third grade at Real Life Christian Academy. So
I have connections there through my parents. Also, Sara Wickham a
fellow classmate has worked there for three years and encouraged us
to work with the students there.
They were more than happy to work with our Service Learning Group
in getting into the classroom to gain experience with more
challenging students.
10. The goal of our project was to go into the classrooms and
provide one-on-one time to students who needed it.
Although the children we worked with were not severely disabled by
any means, as we have learned in the EEX 4070 course students with
LD, or ADD are going to be apart of our future classrooms and
experience with them is needed as well.
11. Participant Demographics
Each member of our group worked with different teachers and
different grade levels..
First Grade
Ms. Shirley(Heather & Sara)
12. Second Grade
Ms. Mills (Allison Love)
13. Fourth Grade
Ms. Stevens (Tiffany & Rebecca)
14. Fifth Grade
Ms. Perkins (Wendy)
Ms. Dove (Sara)
15. Reflection of your Experience
The students seemed reluctant at first to want to work with me
individually. But when they got more comfortable with me, things
got better.
With encouragement the students really seemed to want to work on
their weak areas.
Working with students who have a learning disabilities is the same
as working with a student who doesnt. I just think they needed a
little more TLC to succeed.
16. Working with these students taught me a lot. I now know
different teaching strategies to keep children's minds engaged.
That was a hard task to over come because the students seemed so
distracted all the time.
I really do feel that things were accomplished over these two
months with my students and I. Not only did we form a bond and
successfully conquer reading skills, but I also learned that
working with students who have a LD can be very
rewarding.
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