tickety
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Post by tickety on Nov 4, 2005 11:55:44 GMT -5
I had one of my kids parent/teacher conference last night. He is ADHD, 10years old and in the 4th grade. I have to say it was absolutely awful. The teachers stated several times how much difficulty they are having with him. Not doing homework making statements such as "this is boring and "I can't do it". They stated his attitude towards the work is bad. He is very immature for his age which we already knew. But they are talking about as a consequence for his behavior putting him in the lower El class room. I don't believe all of this is related to the ADHD. Dose anyone have any suggestions.
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Post by Gillian on Nov 4, 2005 14:05:32 GMT -5
What is El class room? My 10 year old says stuff like that all the time. He is not ADHD but Mood Disorder. You make El sound like a place you would rather pass on. Is it a therapeutic classroom? My guy is in a therapeutic classroom now and it is the best thing we ever did for him. We had a very hard time agreeing to the therapeutic classroom but now wish it had happened much earlier. Maybe E1 is something else?
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tickety
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Post by tickety on Nov 4, 2005 14:42:45 GMT -5
Gillian Sorry School lingo. Lower El is Lower Elementary, my children attend a Charter Montessori school, which is Primary is Pre-School 3, Preschool 4 and Kindergarten, Lower Elementary is 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades and Upper Elementary is where he is which is 4th, 5th and 6th. They are suggesting that he go spend sometime with the Lower Elementary kids because his immature behavior is distributing the class.
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Post by my3texans on Nov 4, 2005 15:25:31 GMT -5
My son is almost 10, ADD, & in 4th grade, he often says he's bored or he can't do something. Both are very common among many students. I think part of the boredom is really boredom, they understand it and are ready to move to the next topic. But, big but here, it can also be a lack of understanding, my son will say he is bored or can't do it, because he is unsure how to do it. So, you might want to talk to your son about what's so boring in class or what it is he can't do, and what he doing instead of doing his classwork.
Take math (my son's weak subject), he may understand how to do the problems when the teacher explains it, but when he has to do it on his own in class, he can't remember everything about how to do the problem. Since he's not one to raise his hand for help, he will play or talk instead, then not turn in the work & acts like he doesn't care. In reality, he is overwhelmed & doesn't understand what to do.
Maybe you need to ask the teacher what she is doing to make sure your son understands the classwork. She may need to adjust her teaching style to match his learning style, & specifically ask him if he understands the work.
One idea is to get the unfinished classwork from the teacher, have you son complete it in addition to his current homework. No, he may not get credit for it, but he will get the idea that if I do it at school, turn it in, then I will have less to do at home. Same can work with homework. Grades can be abstract to kids, since there is a lapse between completing the work & receiving the grade, so we try to impress upon our son that turning in classwork & homework are easy A's. We also tell him that they are tools for us & the teacher to see if he is understanding how to do the work.
I don't know what El class is either, but since you say lower, I suspect it might close to putting him back 1/2 a grade or more. I would push the school to explain in detail to you why they want to do that & what could they do to help him where he is without moving him back. Their job is to teach him the state mandated curriculum, ask them how they plan to do that for your son.
When we asked my son's school to evaluate him for LDs, the principal immediately want to put him back a grade. We said no, he was not failing, and saw no reason for the move. We felt like they said that to get us off their back & "please a parent that asked for testing" hoping to get out of it.
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