Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Wonderings, puzzlements, and queries- "Power of Questions"

After reading this section of the text and pondering my thoughts, this is what I come up with:

Questions- How do you address paraprofessionals that help too much?
                  - How do you get student's to retain information that has been taught (over and over and over)?
                 - What skills are truely functional (where do I start, what will they actually use and be of benefit to them?)
                 - How do I document progress in an applicable way (usefull but not time consuming)?
                 - How can I work with parents to understand their child with special needs?
                 - What techniques/ tools are out there to modify/ change behavior of a student with autism?
Personal life-      Why our 4 year old boy doesn't show interest in school related stuff at home (won't count, work on his ABC's, etc) (is it normal? should we be concerned?)
                       - How do you determine if he is ready for Kindergarten (should be starting next school year but has a July birthday- will he be ready? how do you know? how does a parent make that decision?)

Exitement-  - Seeing the progress a student has made academically in the last month (reading, money, numbers, days of the week, independence, etc).
                  - Seeing the exitement on student's faces when they talk about graduating (even though I am sad on the inside knowing that they are leaving).
                 - Watching the student's develop into young adults that are entering the workforce.
                 - Assisting a student with finding a job in the community and seeing the joy on his face- watching him progress into a young man knowing all that he has had to deal with.
                 - Establishing new relationships with students/ parents and gaining their trust.
                
Puzzlements/ wonderings- Why people stress over things that they have no control over?
                                        - How can one person have so much control over what a school does (parent)?
                                        - How does the mind work (observing students and how they interact/ choices they make)
                                      

2 comments:

  1. You have posted some very interesting questions that have me really thinking! I love your ponderings about what skills are actually functional and how do we document in an applicable way!

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  2. The parent wonderings will never go away, from the minute you first lay eyes on them to when you send them off to college, and beyond! Enjoy the ride of parenthood, Tabetha! It can have us wondering, and it's never dull! Janet

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