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Q: How to help a student that can't be helped?
I have several students who need to see a professional speech therapist. Even when they talk in Chinese they can't talk correctly. But the students, the school, and the person paying for the classes think I can miraculously fix them. Is there anything that can be done for these students or should I just move on to others that can be helped?
12 years 16 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
As a teacher, I believe, no matter where you are, in "no child left behind." I don't know if you have children or adults, butI think you should just do the best you can and, hopefully, they will catch on to something. Every little bit is going to help, if they want the help. If they don't there is nothing you can do.
kchur:
Sometimes, though, the problem is I found myself focusing more on the troubled students, and less on the rest of the class. In an attempt to leave no child behind, I left most of the ones with potential behind.
HugAPanda:
I understand that, and I know it is a hell of a lot easier in other countries where we have resources available for the extra help. But you do have to find a balance. At the very least, you have to treat them at minimum as you treat the ones who are excelling. Another thing... if you just move on to the next one... will it reflect poorly on the teacher to the point of him/her losing the job?
Just treat them as every other student,i also have one in my class.We are not their parents were just teachers of English maybe give them more praise when they get something right
Teach to the middle. That is the usual rule. If you teach to the level of the more challenged students, you will loose everyone else. If you teach to the level of the more advanced students, you will loose everyone else. If you teach to the middle, you can involve both the higher level students, on the occassion, and the lower level students, on the occasion.
It is common currency here to mix children with learning disabilities, inadequacies, etc., with less challenged, more learning oriented children.
I have come across this repeatedly and repeatedly and in the end, unless you have been trained as a speech therapist / pathologist, I would do as has been advised by another poster. Do your post but focus on the overall mix.
I would teach to the whole class, not placing any specific emphasis on any particular individual needs.
And if I wanted to help one or more specific students with special needs, I would do it during office hours, not within the classroom.
If they realy want to learn all you can do is your best
Maybe the web might have some technicks that you can use as exstra home hore for them.
There must be some doctor of somthing that can give you a path to follow.
If you like pm me with more detale and I will look for you on this side of the great fire wall
If they realy want to learn all you can do is your best
Maybe the web might have some technicks that you can use as exstra home hore for them.
There must be some doctor of somthing that can give you a path to follow.
If you like pm me with more detale and I will look for you on this side of the great fire wall
