Thursday, April 19, 2007

Almost finished!

I had a unique experience for the first time while in a practicum location. I was observing how my CT was talking firmly to one of the boys in our class. The boy was just standing beside her with his head done and not making any eye contact. After she had been talking to him for a long time my CT finally looked up at me and asked if I could walk him down to the office. I said sure and took the form from her. Well the boy raced across the room and I thought this wouldn't take much of my time, well was I wrong! As soon as we reached the hallway, he froze on me. My teacher said I would probably have to take him by the arm and convince him to go well had to do just that to get him only half way down the hallway. Long story short I had to go down to the office to get the Principal to come and get him. The Principal had no idea who I even was (and I sat in on an IEP meeting with him before) so I had to tell him who I was. After that he was joking around with me, "welcome to education", "I will get his head you can get his feet" (he was just kidding with this as well). I must say I never had experienced anything like this before, not even when I use to sub. I just fell bad for the boy because this was totally not like him at all!

1 comment:

Dawn said...

Abby I have had experiences similar to this when I was a Para-professional. I have seen aprincipal scoot a student down the hall with her foot because the student refused to stand up and walk. I have seen students restrained because of ill behavior. It is not nice to watch and sometimes you wish you could do something else. There has to be another way to deal with situations like these.