I ran into my first major bump in the road last week. Our special education team has been relooking at data from the winter assessments and adding minutes to students that were making progress but still performing two grade levels below. Therefore, one of my focus students is no longer in my classroom for Reading. I considered keeping her in my research project, but based on the first few weeks of data collection, I had to sit with her while writing and have her verbally tell me what she had written because it was difficult to read so I do not see this being beneficial. I also had to give her a very specific prompt for the book we were reading in small group because she was not able to simply respond on her own. She truly enjoyed the extra attention of being one of my special reading helpers and getting to write in the journals so I will be sad to let her know we will not be continuing. Having her participate in the first four weeks of my study did allow me to make some observations about whom reading response journals work well with and who they do not.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Sad news
I ran into my first major bump in the road last week. Our special education team has been relooking at data from the winter assessments and adding minutes to students that were making progress but still performing two grade levels below. Therefore, one of my focus students is no longer in my classroom for Reading. I considered keeping her in my research project, but based on the first few weeks of data collection, I had to sit with her while writing and have her verbally tell me what she had written because it was difficult to read so I do not see this being beneficial. I also had to give her a very specific prompt for the book we were reading in small group because she was not able to simply respond on her own. She truly enjoyed the extra attention of being one of my special reading helpers and getting to write in the journals so I will be sad to let her know we will not be continuing. Having her participate in the first four weeks of my study did allow me to make some observations about whom reading response journals work well with and who they do not.
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That is unfortunate! It is those ones that you wish you could continue to work with as they need it so much more than some others. I think it is great to see what a positive spin you have on the situation. =)
ReplyDeleteI am bummed out for you too but also for her! I am sure the extra attention was VERY beneficial to this student in more ways than one! I agree with Liz- great way to positively think about the little bump that has come along.
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