Angela’s Area

I guess what puzzles me more than anything is how different students process their learning and how I can increase the retention of the skills they have learned.  I work with children with learning disabilities and I was not trained in this area.  It seems that I have to re-teach everything almost on a daily basis.  I haven’t been teaching long enough to actually say I’m doing anything successfully, but I am trying hard to be flexible and when one method of presenting information doesn’t work, I try to find another way to teach so that students can comprehend.  I think that so far, I’m also good at trying to build my students’ confidence in their own skills.  I use rewards and praise appropriately and try to use negative comments in a constructive way.  Not to say I talk badly to my students, but what I mean is that I do not belittle them when they make a mistake or automatically assume they just didn’t understand.  Maybe my teaching of the subject matter was not as effective as it could have been.  Perhaps I should reflect on how I could have presented the information differently. 

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