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"Shadowing" difficult child and his 1:1'1 at school, input please?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 247700" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>From my experience, especially with a very young child - if it's only for a few days especially, I'd be having him at home and getting him to do schoolwork at home. It will give him a break from the intense need to cope, it will give the school a break, it could help on a number of fronts.</p><p></p><p>However, there should also not be too much trouble having you or Uncle as aide. At difficult child 3's last school it was quite common for parents to come in as volunteer helpers. I tended to stay out of eye line of difficult child 3 because I felt my presence would distract him, but I was generally helping other kids so the teacher was more free to work with difficult child 3. It was this that showed me that difficult child 3 simply wasn't functioning in mainstream as well as I had been led to beleive. I worried that his high distractibility was due to my presence, but the teacher said, "No, he's always like this."</p><p></p><p>It's worth a try. If you can do this and support the teacher, to let the teacher work more with difficult child, it might be interesting. But I would talk to the teacher ahead of time, to make sure you're both on the same page.</p><p></p><p>If you choose to have him at home, maybe Uncle could help? And do make sure that he doesn't see being home as a holiday - it's still school hours, he still has to be educated. There are many options - documentaries, eductional computer games, work sheets from the teacher, workbooks. Writing tasks. Experiments. It needn't be onerous, it is allowed to be fun. But he DOES need to learn.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with this. Sometimes you just have to flip a coin and have a go.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 247700, member: 1991"] From my experience, especially with a very young child - if it's only for a few days especially, I'd be having him at home and getting him to do schoolwork at home. It will give him a break from the intense need to cope, it will give the school a break, it could help on a number of fronts. However, there should also not be too much trouble having you or Uncle as aide. At difficult child 3's last school it was quite common for parents to come in as volunteer helpers. I tended to stay out of eye line of difficult child 3 because I felt my presence would distract him, but I was generally helping other kids so the teacher was more free to work with difficult child 3. It was this that showed me that difficult child 3 simply wasn't functioning in mainstream as well as I had been led to beleive. I worried that his high distractibility was due to my presence, but the teacher said, "No, he's always like this." It's worth a try. If you can do this and support the teacher, to let the teacher work more with difficult child, it might be interesting. But I would talk to the teacher ahead of time, to make sure you're both on the same page. If you choose to have him at home, maybe Uncle could help? And do make sure that he doesn't see being home as a holiday - it's still school hours, he still has to be educated. There are many options - documentaries, eductional computer games, work sheets from the teacher, workbooks. Writing tasks. Experiments. It needn't be onerous, it is allowed to be fun. But he DOES need to learn. Good luck with this. Sometimes you just have to flip a coin and have a go. Marg [/QUOTE]
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