The following student this week has been transfered out of my class. He is disappointed as he characterized me as the best teacher he ever had:
Student has difficulty staying focused. He enjoys disruption in the class. Currently he is working on a behavioral continuum. His current level of performance is more than 5 disruptions per class period. The target is less than 5 hash marks on the board. He can copy off the board but is a self reported nonreader. Articulation needs are minimal because he uses infantile speech patterns to get his way. Articulation errors in er and r are easily stimuable.. Substitutes characterize his demeanor as "obnoxious."He charges the whole class with his antics.
I came to appreciate this student: normal ability, very intense. over the top in HDHD. Parents claim no meds have been successful. He is highly inventive and has some sort of drama usually revolving possessions who gave this, I gave him that.. but then takes it back. Around Christmas time he found a set of bamboo along the streamside. He set about making all of his friends (including me) a flute made from the bamboo. One day he gathered up some yellow tape used to block entry to a student body function, he figured out how to make a sling out of it so that it would support a skateboard as he walked around campus (he was not allowed to ride the skateboard on campus).
I don't think that he learned much being in my class.. but then again.. academics are not going to be his strong suit. Right now he looks like a third grader. He is white.
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It's funny, but I often think that the best skill that a person can have is the ability to get along with others. If you have that skill, you can eventually acquire the others. Without that skill you are sunk before you begin. In my curriculum class we are talking about education by computers where teachers are not needed. I just don't think we are ready for that kind of instruction right now.
Sometimes the ones you dislike the most are the ones you miss when they are gone, and sometimes, its ok to say, "I'm glad they're gone."
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