The past week...

This past week in the field I witnessed a few interesting things in my 2nd grade classroom. First of all, I noticed one of the students has two hearing aids that he wears only some of the time, which of course is a form of assistive technology. Whenever he is questioned about them by other students, though, he tells them that he is listening is to music and does whatever he can to play if off as if it's nothing at all. I talked to him about it just a little bit, being careful not to question him too much about it so that he would not be uncomfortable. This kind of shows me the environment in the school as a whole, especially because it is an inner city school.



I also talked to the teacher about one of his students being tested for special education on this coming Monday. He mentioned about how much he struggles, mainly in reading and writing. I have noticed this as well as I have helped him numerous times catch up when the class is doing a whole class writing lesson. He focuses extremely hard on the spelling and mechanics of everything that he does not comprehend much about what he is writing. I have not had the opportunity to work with him individually yet, but I hope to do so just to see how he works with someone directly helping him. According to the teacher, he will almost definitely be placed into special eduction once he has taken the placement tests.