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<blockquote data-quote="tiredmommy" data-source="post: 527249" data-attributes="member: 1722"><p>I've worked as a sub aide and often was 1:1 with special needs kids in classrooms. Most teachers are good and kind and support the kind. Some are not. But a lot of aides, in my humble opinion, need a lot of training on how to work with non-typical children. I've had numerous times that teachers would tell me their special kids had a good day with me and want to know what I was doing differently. I usually said something like "Not blaming them for their problems and treating them with dignity, so they do the same with me". The good teachers liked that, the bad ones did not. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> </p><p></p><p>There was one teacher that has an excellent reputation that had an exceptionally difficult boy in her already difficult class. This poor kid had heard since probably pre-k that he was "bad". He repeated kindergarten (behavior and academic issues), was a constant disruption in every placement and loved to get a rise out of the adults around him. His mother told me once that he had ADHD, difficulty with writing and a mood disorder. This was not an unintelligent child, but rather a child that felt unliked and unwanted in school. So the teacher started requesting that her classroom aide try to get me when she couldn't be there because we got along. Oh, he'd argue a little bit and put on a bit of his song and dance... but he'd eventually give in because I kept saying I knew he could whatever task was at hand as well as the other kids because he was so smart. And he'd do it. And not be sent to the principal. And get little smiley faces on his behavior chart... simply because the adult working directly with him that day had faith in him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tiredmommy, post: 527249, member: 1722"] I've worked as a sub aide and often was 1:1 with special needs kids in classrooms. Most teachers are good and kind and support the kind. Some are not. But a lot of aides, in my humble opinion, need a lot of training on how to work with non-typical children. I've had numerous times that teachers would tell me their special kids had a good day with me and want to know what I was doing differently. I usually said something like "Not blaming them for their problems and treating them with dignity, so they do the same with me". The good teachers liked that, the bad ones did not. :( There was one teacher that has an excellent reputation that had an exceptionally difficult boy in her already difficult class. This poor kid had heard since probably pre-k that he was "bad". He repeated kindergarten (behavior and academic issues), was a constant disruption in every placement and loved to get a rise out of the adults around him. His mother told me once that he had ADHD, difficulty with writing and a mood disorder. This was not an unintelligent child, but rather a child that felt unliked and unwanted in school. So the teacher started requesting that her classroom aide try to get me when she couldn't be there because we got along. Oh, he'd argue a little bit and put on a bit of his song and dance... but he'd eventually give in because I kept saying I knew he could whatever task was at hand as well as the other kids because he was so smart. And he'd do it. And not be sent to the principal. And get little smiley faces on his behavior chart... simply because the adult working directly with him that day had faith in him. [/QUOTE]
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