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Lucky Wizard · Daedalian Member

Originally posted by mith:
So, I have to figure out how I'm going to get her caught up, *and* keep the rest of the class going with their stuff.

Uh, maybe go and find a tutor to work with her during geometry classes, study halls, and (if this school uses a trimester system and there's an exam at the end of each trimester) after school? Or is the logistics of finding a tutor a problem?

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[This message has been edited by Lucky Wizard (edited 10-28-2002 11:56 PM).]

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

Count your blessings: a friend of mine who teaches high-school math recently acquired a student who has never learned the basic addition facts.

Antrax · ESL Student

mith, if you really care you can tutor her personally. People learn much faster when it's 1 on 1, so you can probably catch up with the material in 2 or 3 sessions. If you don't care, let her catch up on her own and realise she's probably going to fail.
Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

firemeboy · Daedalian Member

I think it's important to note that we shouldn't lump kids into 'smart' and 'slow'. What it really means is that by the time highschool rolls around you have the kids who have figured out how to make it in the system, and those that learn in 'non-traditional' sort of ways. But we label them smart and dumb and they begin to believe it. Those that don't beleive they are dumb ususally go on to do just fine. Those that beleive it suffer. They are not dumb, they just don't learn by reading from a book. They learn from doing, or watching, or any number of other methods.

I knew a kid in school who failed miserably nearly every class he took, but he was an incredible artist. But he was labled 'dumb' or 'slow'. I think he ended up working at a factory in my home town. If the system had recognized hid 'genius', then he may have been a great painter. The system failed him, he couldn't learn in the traditional way, and he probably thinks very little of himself or his art.

That is all. Soapbox is vacant.

mith · Pitbull of Truth

Well now she's been moved again, to the IB class. It's so bizarre, I didn't think they were allowed to move students after some time period. Anyway, I won't have any trouble catching her up, I think, I just don't have copies of any of the tests they took.

EEEM · Saucy Mod

That is really weird. Is she new to the school? And is she in any other IB classes? If not, they can't put her in that class... They normally don't do any schedule changes after the first 2 weeks.

Antrax · ESL Student

I think I'll place a copy of this in Educator Ideas, just because it seems to fit. And it means I get to show off a l33ttrick.
Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

post in EI...

Bummer...I thought this thread and the other one would be linked or something, like having the same thread in two different forums. That would be l33t.

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EEEM · Saucy Mod

I wonder if it can be done...

VinnyQ · Vi Ni Kiu

Yes yes, use EI. It's feeling really neglected. Cudos to FMB for finding a good use for it.
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Hey mith, I didn't catch what subject you were teaching. I am guessing Math or Chemistry?

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mith · Pitbull of Truth

math (specifically, 4 geometry classes, pre-cal, and calculus)

Antrax · ESL Student

According to my current understanding of how UBB works, it would be utterly impossible to make one thread appear in two places... almost. I could write an elaborate perl script to do it, but it'll add server load and I'll probably screw it up somehow

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Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

Ghost Post · Icarian Member

CHICKEN! BWAK BWAK!

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

I once saw a class of fifth-graders basically discover the use of algebraic variables on their own. They were doing a word problem about pirates and coins, and they started abbreviating them to p and c. Then they said, "So we don't know what p is in this problem yet...hey! we could do a different problem about pirates and still use p, but then it would be a different number!" and they started making up more problems, and equations. And different word problems that would use the same equation: every pig has five carrots, instead of every pirate has five coins, etc.

I barely did anything -- just encouraged them as they got ideas, introduced the word "algebra," introduced the word "variable" when they asked, "Is there a word for it when you use a letter to stand for a number?" and was amazed at how quickly they absorbed new information.

This wasn't a "gifted" class, either. Just a regular class that finished their regular math worksheet and had time to spare.

Antrax · ESL Student

Oh great, HH, now you've created a whole generation of kids who are going to get beat up during recess

Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time