It was really helpful today that one of the students said he'd rather go to the laptop lab and take an online state test than sit in class all period. We do have a really boring class. Especially with the parapros we could be doing a lot of small-group activities. I'm working on how to bring this up without being pushy. But I'm obviously not doing too well or it would already be done by now. In some situations it's really hard for me to be assertive, but particularly when working with people who are older than I am and in a different situation.
Next week the general ed teacher will be out. I think the sped teacher already planned out what we're doing for the week. A lot of grammar worksheets as before. I need to think of an activity where they might actually use, say, pronouns, in the course of completing an activity. Teaching grammar explicitly is an evidence-based practice for teaching writing to students with LD, so somehow they must be able to make the connection between what is taught and their actual writing. It's tough to think of motivating writing activities, although it's my opinion that these students really aren't too tough in terms of getting them to write.
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