Jeannette

Jeannette's reflections on her students. Diagnostic results, what next profile, POL adjustments and resources sent to develop skills.... Feedback and reflection of successes and barriers Other teachers' comments and reflections on the processes...

This year I am going to study and promote the progress of two farm boys, N and J who have similar backgrounds and interests such as hunting, fishing and the farm. These are students who have been on CS for some time and whose supervisors have the interests of their students at heart. Both boys have problems with surface features such as spelling and sentence structure etc. often reflecting the standard of literacy etc at home. N, the younger boy, aged 12.3 in February 2010 has had considerable recent success eg. his R/A has improved from 10.5 in Nov. 2008 to 12 years in Nov. 2009. J, aged 13.8 in February 2010 has been rather stuck on remedial and revisionary work. His R/A was 11 years in Nov. 2008 and had only increased by .5 to 11 .5 by Nov. 2009. I am keen to ensure some measure of success for him this year and have discussed this with him. His supervisor says that J is reading much more and once again I have encouraged him to use the library facilities to access new books. J has been much more willing to ring me recently which is something of a breakthrough. Both boys have guided reading material. I am particularly keen to move J through his present maths course, revising where necessary and plugging gaps but also increasing his skills by ensuring that he understand concepts, tests his knowledge in Day 10 and then moves on. J has had some measure of success with the Te Ara Hou booklets by discovering a skill in photography so that he has been able to give information visually rather than in longhand. He does not have a computer so is not able to word process, edit, spell check etc unfortunately.