Hello again,
I though that i would sum up what my high school experiance was like and hopefully somene else can share theirs.
I was 17 and a jounior in high school and beyond struggeling. I had terriable depression i was on home study bc i could make it out of bed most day. I continued that through the end of the year and when i arrived back my senior year i went to my counslor and told her she had to get me out of high school or i was leaving. I was 18 and could have made that choice. She helped me get out and into the Community College. It was there that i learned that i wasnt stupid i just learned a different way. I started to take ASL and i learned how to process information differently i am a visual and language learner give me somethign to see or something to read and i can do it. If there are numbers involved FORGET IT!!!
My family alwasy knew i could read and comprehend just about anything but high school isnt taught that way its taught with the mid set the teacher says it you do and and learn it... i dont learn my doing i learn by seeing and reading. My high school was very math and schience and i wasnt that is why i got out.
I hope other peopl have experiances to share!
-Lindsay
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Hi, Your high school situation sounds a lot like my experience except mine goes back to elementary school. I have always had low self esteem and I believe that it will always be a challenge for me for the rest of my life. I actually believed that I was not good enough for school. I would throw temper tantrums before school and have horrible anxiety during school. The anxiety just got worse as I progresses through the grades. I also know now what I didn't know about my self then. I am ADD to the 17th power and I was told all of my life that little girls should stay still and be polite. This is just not me. Although I try, I just don't do well in lecture class settings. I am extremely visual and kinesthetic and all of my high school teachers just thought that I was acting out in spite. I was depressed and decided that I was just going to not go to school. I was talked out of getting my GED by the most wonderful and influential person of my high school career. Instead, he suggested being "Homebound" and finishing school that way. I did and I graduated and my mom cried for DAYS afterward:) I got a late start on college because I still had the idea that I couldn't learn in my head. I have no idea why I decided to give it a try, but I sincerely believe that it was the work of God. There is a reason I am a SPED major and I am continuing to learn, not just the material in my classes, but something about myself each semester. I know what it was like to feel like a "failure" and it sounds to me like you have felt like that before. I think this gives us a ginormous advantage over those who teacher candidates who were straight A students. I am glad that you shared your experience and I hope that you have felt some comfort in being able to relate to mine.
sorry I wrote a research paper like you don't have other things to be doing except reading my post :)
Lindsay, My experience was not that bad, but it has had a lasting effect on me. When I was in first grade, Mrs. Peters was my teacher. I was quite small and very shy. She called on me to read one day, and because I stuttered and mispronounced some of the words, she placed a Dunce hat on my head and made me sit in front of the class. I will never forget that and even today when I try to talk to fast or get nervous I mispronounce words. I did not want to drop out of school or anything like that, but it made me not want to participate in class. As you may have noticed, I have gotten over that fear just a little. HA HA!!
Elana :)
My philosophy on teaching is that every one can learn. However, they may do it a different levels and, or, stages. Just because a person does not understand it completely today does not mean that they cannot grasp it after you explain it again or in a different way. Sometimes I have to be beat over the head several times before something sinks in. It’s like looking at something one day and it’s Greek or German, the next day you wonder why you did not understand. I can not explain it, hopefully this class will give us more insight on how to uncover and enhance the learning ability of not only special needs students, but ourselves as well.
Elana
Elana, if you have noticed, some children when doing a class activity seem to be very detached from the class while others can't wait to "get their hands dirty" so to speak. It is not that they aren't participating, they just learn by observation and obsorbing the information as oppose to touching and/or discussing the subject being taught. Perhaps that was you in school?
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