Re: HELP! teacher issues

March 27, 2010

Do you know what kind of learner your son is? My daughter and I just went through a series of testing and determined that she is a visual/kinestic learner. After I learned this I took the report to the school and they did the same testing on my daughter so they could 'see it for themselves'. Now after 6 months of battleing the school is adapting the way they teach my daughter no only in math but all subjects. They are having her get up out of here seat and do work on the white board in the front of the class room and have the teacher or a teaches assistant give immediate feedback to my daughter. They are also giving her a physical copy of all the notes so that she does not have to stress if she is takinn class notes at the speed of the teacher. One other accomodiation that has been done is that they have began teaching my daughter at her congitive level

instead of the level of the class. This has been going for a month now and I can see a world of difference at home.

I hope this helps.

From: tcstallard <tonya.stallard@...>Subject: ( ) HELP! teacher issues Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:27 PM

Good Morning ALL! I seemed to remember seeing where someone posted something about different teaching styles working better for Aspies. My DS is 12 and first year in middle school. He has always loved math! His teacher has been telling me that he has not been focused as much and when she calls on him, he doesn't know the answer-still getting As and Bs. She doesn't know much (or anything) about aspergers and doesn't seem to WANT to know. His History teacher is wonderful and had some "problems' when he was younger and I think "gets" what's going on and he is a VERY visual teacher (he also attends church where we do)-so I was hoping that he would "rub off" a little on her. Anyway, if anyone would have ANY info that I could pass along to the MATH teacher in a nice way without feeling that I am "telling" her how to teach my son. thanks so much! any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated: )

March 27, 2010

Sounds to me like it could be as much about the material as the teacher. I was

very good at math too when I was a kid, but after a while thats almost a curse

as you get so bored! Might not be a bad idea to take it from that perspective.

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> Good Morning ALL! I seemed to remember seeing where someone posted something

about different teaching styles working better for Aspies. My DS is 12 and

first year in middle school. He has always loved math! His teacher has been

telling me that he has not been focused as much and when she calls on him, he

doesn't know the answer-still getting As and Bs. She doesn't know much (or

anything) about aspergers and doesn't seem to WANT to know. His History teacher

is wonderful and had some " problems' when he was younger and I think " gets "

what's going on and he is a VERY visual teacher (he also attends church where we

do)-so I was hoping that he would " rub off " a little on her. Anyway, if anyone

would have ANY info that I could pass along to the MATH teacher in a nice way

without feeling that I am " telling " her how to teach my son. thanks so much!

any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated:)

>

March 27, 2010

My son was just diagnosed with Aspergers, but he is also adhd and dyslexic, so I

have not had the talk with the teacher about tha aspergers (he was only

diagnosed friday) Anyway what I have found with the adhd and dylexia is if the

teacher wont listen make her listen, arrange a meeting with a stat team,

depending on where your at it maybe called somthing else, however the stat team

is the princple, or the assistant, his teachers, and resource teachers.

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> > Good Morning ALL! I seemed to remember seeing where someone posted

something about different teaching styles working better for Aspies. My DS is

12 and first year in middle school. He has always loved math! His teacher has

been telling me that he has not been focused as much and when she calls on him,

he doesn't know the answer-still getting As and Bs. She doesn't know much (or

anything) about aspergers and doesn't seem to WANT to know. His History teacher

is wonderful and had some " problems' when he was younger and I think " gets "

what's going on and he is a VERY visual teacher (he also attends church where we

do)-so I was hoping that he would " rub off " a little on her. Anyway, if anyone

would have ANY info that I could pass along to the MATH teacher in a nice way

without feeling that I am " telling " her how to teach my son. thanks so much!

any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated:)

> >

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March 29, 2010

Is he having any problems with math homework? If not, seems to know the

material, I wonder if it's just he's not comfortable answering in that class

(first yr of middle school, new people, doesn't like teacher or thinks teacher

doesn't like him...)? If he is having trouble with homework, tests, then it

must be the way the teacher teaches it, he's not " getting it. " Maybe she's too

fast, too many steps.... All my sons were good at math but teachers differ (and

I didn't like all my sons math teachers, some were great, some not). And my

Aspie son, though wonderful at math, always had a problem with long division, I

was so glad when they got past that!

So I would figure out why he has the " problem " the teacher is seeing and then,

if you need to, meet with her. She may not want to learn about Aspergers

(sigh!) but she needs to learn about him, as she does any other student and why

they are having a problem with the math. If he needs visual and she's more

oral, then she'll need to change it some for him and the other visual learners

in class, etc.

Just quick thoughts.