One Child, is a beautifully compelling story about a teacher who was given a student that was misled and overlooked for far too long. This student was Sheila and before Torey Hayden had Sheila, she had moved home to home between different relatives. The school where Torey Hayden taught wasn’t too sure that they would be able to find Sheila a home and she would soon be sent to a state hospital. During the time that Torey and Sheila had together, Sheila began developing into a pleasant and prosperous child that loved to learn and was very intelligent. Also, at this time Sheila grew closer to her classmates and began to have bonded with others. Torey Hayden stated, “I taught what was affectionately referred to in our school district as the ‘garbage class.” She was given little to work with but was expected to do her job just like every teacher in school. This doubt and negative attitude towards her passion could be discouraging, yet she knew what her end goal was. The end goal being; to be strong and show passion for teaching these forgotten children. Not only did she guide …show more content…
On the first day of school, Sheila refused to sit with anyone in the classroom, so Torey Hayden thought this was an ideal starting point to reach out to her. Slowly but surely, Torey Hayden convinced the little girl to sit with the group. This showed the girl that, she was in a safe spot with other children just like her and made her feel more welcome to this new environment. Once Torey Hayden was able to achieve this step she moved towards exposing more academic skills to Sheila. The teacher soon discovered that this little girl was exceptionally intelligent and was past all of her other students academically. Even though she was only six-years-old, Sheila could perform academically at the fifth grade level. Gradually introducing Sheila to new concepts, the more she was
Junie B. Jones is a twenty eight book series written by Barbara Park for ages five through nine. The series had been under close scrutiny due to the main character Junie B.’s lack of maturity and self discipline, also, her language and mispronunciation of words. There are some that even believe that Junie B. actually has some form of learning disability. But what if all of her disciplinary issues, her shouting in class, her immaturity, and even some of her speech impediments stem from not her own learning incompetencies, but her teachers’. In a classroom a teacher has the ability to either build a student’s confidence and sense of industry or their skepticism and inferiority. The main way in which they can do this is through their teaching
The book Lucky Child by Loung Ung tells The story about Loung who was fortunate to escape the terrifying invasion of the Khmer Rouge and find a safe haven in America. The pressure of dealing with assimilation and trying to fit helps support Loung in finally embracing who she really is.
She reported to only have six people at the opening of her school. That suddenly changed when people in the area found out about Barton’s miraculous teaching abilities. When attendance grew to over two hundred students, the town decided that they needed to build a brand new school for the following year. Her dream was coming true, or at least she thought. The new school opened, and she soon found out that she was not going to be the principal, it was to be a man with twice her pay.
As a Learning Assistant, working in Year 3, I worked closely with a seven year old girl who, for the purpose of this case study, I will call Jane. Jane was a confident and happy girl who, despite not being particularly academically gifted, always participated with class discussions and activities enthusiastically.
Scout comes home, frustrated about her first day at school. Scout’s positive expectations of school were crushed when Miss Caroline tells her to stop reading because she has been taught incorrectly. After school Scout explains her day at school to Atticus, and her teacher’s cluelessness and unreasonability. Scouts most valuable lesson from her first day of school comes from her father, where she learns to try to see situations from the others point of view. Ironically, Atticus teaches more to Scout and Jem, than their teacher, Miss Caroline,
Miss Caroline is a brand new teacher and has been trained to teach in a certain way. When she finds that Scout’s premature reading ability disrupts her teaching plan she has no idea what to do with her, and tells Scout not to read at home anymore. ‘Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore, it would interfere with my reading.’ This shows how society is oblivious to individual situations and this can cause achievements to be frowned upon.
They were to ignore him when acted out or became disruptive and praise him when he behaved in an acceptable manner. In a sense, this made every one of the kids in his class one of Sean’s teachers. They were forced to accept that Sean could get away with doing things that would have landed them in the principal’s office. Kathy would have to spend significant amounts of extra time working with Sean when teaching him how to do something the other children had learned in five minutes two weeks ago. The academic gap between Sean and the rest of his classmates continued to widen as the school year continued.
WILLIAM stood at the back of the cider mill and stared over the makeshift classroom. Mary and Reverend Flowers stood at the front of the classroom. Forty students ranging from 5-years-old up to 18-years-old sat at tables arranged by grade level. Mary taught a lesson on long division to a group of 7-year-olds while Reverend Flowers monitored the rest of the students as they worked independently at their desks. Reverend Flowers walked to an 11-year-old boy in the second row who was doodling in the margins of a notebook instead of focusing on his reading assignment. Reverend Flowers grabbed the boy by his ear and yanked him out of his seat.
In the “Invisible Child” written by Andrea Elliot, a lifestyle of a homeless girl named Dasani and her family is shown. Elliot displays Dasani’s culture, and some of the struggles that she and her family face daily because they are homeless. Dasani is very dedicated to her school work. She wants to be better than anyone in her family ever was so she doesn’t have to worry about being homeless for the rest of her life. In some ways I can relate to Dasani, I am very passionate about my school work as well. I want to excel so I can be my very best in the future. However, our reasoning’s for wanting to be the best we can be are a little different. She wants to excel so she no longer has to worry about being homeless whereas I’ve never been homeless so I cannot say the exact same. I grew up being a very privileged kid. Both of my parents worked full time good paying jobs. I’ve never had to want for much of anything. My parents have always spoiled me with nice things, they have always made sure my siblings and I had nice clothes and a decent meal to eat. They are even paying for me to attain a college education. Dasani and her family however are a lot different from mine. In the “Invisible Child” Elliot tells us how Dasani’s parents do not have legit jobs, instead they have side “hustles” that only bring in a few dollars. Elliot states (2013) that a lot of mornings Dasani was starving at school because she had no breakfast. Dasani and her siblings also had to wear clothes that were
In One Breath, a 2-d oil painting that is 84” wide and 60” tall by Rose Ellis, captures a surreal moment in time of bubbles floating over a still Diamond Lake on a brisk, early, foggy autumn morning before sunrise. The darkness of the scene is illustrated through the dark grey colors of the background, all the while showing the bubbles in the foreground, with great contrast, capturing what little light is available and bringing color through their prisms to a seemingly colorless scene. As can be seen in Figure 1, the piece shows not only the bubbles, but rather harder to decipher, the tranquil Diamond Lake (dark grey towards the bottom right) with light grey fog spread across it (light grey over the lake) and trees that line the edge of the
Lucy is now nineteen years old. She is a freshman in college. She is the biological daughter of their parents. Lucy is very outgoing and describes herself as extroverted. She as a lot of friends and has never met a stranger. She is always the center of attention. She also states that her sister is her best friend. Lucy states “she is the one person I can tell anything to and she won’t hate me or think I’m weird” Lucy made good grades in high school. She was consistently on the “A/B” honor roll, took some honor classes and did not want to take any college level classes while in high school. She stated “high school is only for a little while; I wanted to enjoy my friends and my life”. Lucy excels in the performing arts; she is a gifted singer and musician. She likes to perform. She finds math and science classes interesting but states “they are just harder for me than they are her (Maggie). She is better in English, literature and history. Extracurricular activities included things such as cheer leading,
One Child narrates the story of a disowned, lost girl who slowly transforms under the care of a teacher, Torey Hayden, into a blooming youngster. It is obvious at the beginning of the novel that Sheila is a depressed girl, who is heading to the hospital soon, but under the care of the special educator, Torey, Sheila ends up going to school instead. Torey is a character in the novel that works, specifically, with children with unknown disabilities. Like Sheila, other students in the novel cannot be placed into the regular education system due to their struggles.
The film Matilda, created by Raold Dahl, tells the story of a gifted young lady named Matilda Wormwood, played by Mara Wilson, who was born into a very unaccepting and unsupportive community. She began her life in a very close-minded family. Her family did not support her thirst for knowledge and learning but rather were constantly pressuring her to be more like them; dishonest and unmotivated. When Matilda was of school age, she was overwhelmed with excitement at the prospect of beginning school until she met Agatha Trunchbull, the school’s principal. Even from their first meeting, their relationship was a difficult one and this tension tainted Matilda’s school experience. As Matilda continued to grow and learn, she realized that her power of telekinesis could be used to negate the effects of Mrs. Trunchbull’s behaviour on both herself and all of her friends. Throughout the movie, Matilda continues to realize the power within her and the love she has for learning. This film analysis will be reflecting on three different developmental lenses including John Bowlby’s attachment theory, Lev Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development and Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and considering how each of these lenses relate to the film Matilda.
In “Only Daughter,” published in Glamour magazine in 1990, Sandra Cisneros talks about how it’s like for her to be the only daughter in a Mexican-American family of six sons. She talks about some of the struggles she faces. Sandra is a writer. A writer who wants her dad to be curious about her writing. He never bothers to ask what she’s writing. When they’d ask her father how many children's he has, he’d respond with “I have seven sons.” The mention of only sons, not a daugher. This proved to her he was only proud of his sons but not her. According to him she’d also have to go to college but only to find a husband. A man who will take her out of poorness. Since, according to Sandra that's why her dad thought college was important for her. He didn't care about her major. Sandra Cisneros is a writer who didn’t have the attention she was meant to receive. Towards the end she finally gets the attention she desired. She translated one of her pieces into Spanish, the only language her dad could read. That's how it gained the attention of her father. When her dad finally reads her story, it fills her with joy. At first she didn't get any attention from her dad at all, because she’s a girl. Sandra Cisneros makes a great argument on her life being full of loneliness. Although, she only talks about her perspective on things. In this article she only talks about her side of the story, and her side only. Sandra talks about how her life was as being the only girl out of seven children.
The child I observed was a seven-year-old girl in Year 2 who sat on the second highest ability table in a mixed class. While not in school, she lived a substantial distance away meaning she travelled to and from school by car and was often the first child to arrive in the morning and the last to leave in the afternoon. I will focus on the social and emotional development of this child who, from now onwards, will be referred to as C.