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Denise D (Teaching Assistant - Special Needs)
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Date Posted: 20:56:47 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 on20that 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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