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Subject: Successful Confidence Building Exercise

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Denise D (Teaching Assistant - Special Needs)

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Date Posted: 12:54:05 10/31/09 Sat

Using the list from the course book in Unit 2.2.4. the Confidence-building Exercise, I worked with a group of 4 pupils who all have specific learning difficulties. I gave each pupil a sheet of paper with the titles �Things that I am good at� and �Things that I have had difficulty doing up till now� at the top.
All the girls were extremely negative for the first few minutes. �I�m useless, I�m not good at anything�, was a general response, however one pupil in particular was extremely negative. I knew her parents were huge fishing fans and that she often went with them. I asked the group if any of them took part in outdoor activities with their parents, like sailing or fishing. The pupil did not respond until I asked her directly, and even then, she still maintained she didn�t know anything about fishing. It took considerable questioning before she finally agreed that fishing was something that she knew quite a lot about �the others didn�t know anything about it. (The others had up to 15 items on their �good� list already at this point) This had a positive effect on her attitude which she maintained for the rest of the exercise. From that point onwards she began to add items to her �good� list which up to that point had remained blank.
When the exercise was completed I had four happy, smiling pupils, who worked through the remainder of the lesson full of confidence. Their quality of work improved earning them extra commendations ( school KS3 award system). Later on that day I spoke to the teachers of their following 3 lessons for that day. They all said the girls worked well and received extra commendations for quantity and quality of work completed.

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