Week 6 Sept. 26th - 30th

Without using last names, which child do you think you influenced most this week? In what way (academic, social, emotional)?

I have a student named Eric and he was definitely a struggle in the beginning. He talked for the majority of the class and when assigned work, never completed any of the assignments. Last week I started sitting down with him, one-on-one, while the other students were working. By giving him this one-on-one attention he really started to thrive for that week. He would ask me, "Ms. Heare, how am I doing today? I'm doing good right?" I loved that he was responding to me and wanted to do good in class to please me. I had not seen this kind of reaction to any other teacher. He has started to slack off some, but I have tried to keep him on track and keep him in the right direction. He has inspired me to reach out to those struggling students because I really love seeing the smile on their face as they complete that assignment.