Sunday, November 20, 2011

Community Service hours- Special Ed. helper

This week on Thursday the 17th of November, I drove down with my mom to her work to experience working with her special Ed and ESL students. Her name is Kathy Kron and her phone number is (847) 354-8284. We left at 630 am and got back at 430 pm. It was crazy to see what my mom has to go through every single day. Its almost like she is doing community service hours every day! It is very hard work but also very benefitial and you feel really good about yourself after helping these kids. We start out in the preschool room with three severely handicapped ESL kids. So they are both special ed and ESL students. We have to use a lot of technology and support for any kind of communication with them. Rian (one of the kids) is completely mute and communicates through grunts and sounds. He smiles and made eye contact with me because he liked how I was a teenager. And then we do kindergarden. We had 6 classed of preschool, and two sessions of Kindergarden. For the rest of the day we do first through third grade. We saw about 37 students. Kindergarden through third grade we used a lot of pictures and visuals. There was a girl from Germany in second grade and it is really cool to see how much english she has already aquired.

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