New Students
They keep sending me new kids. It's 2 weeks away from standardized testing, and they just keep plopping them in my room. I officially have 9 students now, and by law I top off at 10 as a teacher of BD students. Two weeks ago I got a new student, last Friday I got another one, and I was told yesterday by a BD teacher at another Newark school that he just signed all the paperwork to send another kid to me.
My new ones are:
Sean, a 4th grader who is much smaller than all of my other students, but has the best social skills of any of my kids.
Then there's Nadia, another 4th grader, and a GIRL! My students don't have a lot of interactions with female students, and don't generally know how to handle those interactions when they do happen... so she's already caused a huge stir in the room, besides that puts her in competition with the only other girl in my classroom, Tyler.
And tomorrow, it is rumored that I will be getting a 6th grade boy who has been home-schooled by his Aunt for the past 6 months because he had too many conflicts to keep him in a classroom. I try my best not to be swayed by what I hear before a student arrives, but I hear what I hear.
I do not have any IEPs for my new students, nor any other pertinent information.
My room is starting to fall apart already with the two new students. Tuesday was my first REALLY bad day in a long time, and today was a staff development day, but I just hope that I can get my classroom management together enough to allow these changes to move my students forward, rather than shove them behind.
New students lead to new challenges, and I have a lot of them ahead of me.
My new ones are:
Sean, a 4th grader who is much smaller than all of my other students, but has the best social skills of any of my kids.
Then there's Nadia, another 4th grader, and a GIRL! My students don't have a lot of interactions with female students, and don't generally know how to handle those interactions when they do happen... so she's already caused a huge stir in the room, besides that puts her in competition with the only other girl in my classroom, Tyler.
And tomorrow, it is rumored that I will be getting a 6th grade boy who has been home-schooled by his Aunt for the past 6 months because he had too many conflicts to keep him in a classroom. I try my best not to be swayed by what I hear before a student arrives, but I hear what I hear.
I do not have any IEPs for my new students, nor any other pertinent information.
My room is starting to fall apart already with the two new students. Tuesday was my first REALLY bad day in a long time, and today was a staff development day, but I just hope that I can get my classroom management together enough to allow these changes to move my students forward, rather than shove them behind.
New students lead to new challenges, and I have a lot of them ahead of me.
Labels: BD, ED, new student, Special education, Teaching
posted by liquidwafflegirl at 2/28/2007 05:18:00 PM
2 Comments:
Thank GOD for standardized testing!
Hang in there, I'm sure your classroom will adjust well to the new students. You have such a solid behavior plan for your students and your classroom sounds so organized. I am sure it will all work out fine. Good Luck!
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