Today I met with Glenn Duncan's two special education teachers, Mrs. Ballard who works with children in grades 4,5 and 6 and Mrs. Lynn who works with children in grades K-3. On this particular day I went with Mrs. Ballard, shadowing her and meeting the children she works with. We began the morning by traveling to a fifth grade class where we worked with a young man named Paul who had been having problems understanding fractions. As we pulled Paul to the side of the room for some one on one learning Mrs. Ballard showed me the best style of learning that worked for him, visual and hands on learning. And for the next half an hour Paul, Mrs. Ballard and I worked together on fractions using blocks, a special work book for Paul, and a dry erase board, all of which helped him to learn the concept of fractions. From there we went to Mr. William's fifth grade class where I met and worked with a young man named Wade with math. Wade seemed to be quiet and shy but he had no trouble!
             expressing to me that he did not understand what they were doing in class. As I sat beside Wade I asked him what they were working on and he explained to me the math they were to be doing but he also explained that he did not know how or what to do. I looked over the problems they were to be working on and explained to Wade the sequence of steps that he needed to do to complete the problem. After a few problems he finally started to get the hang of it but he was still not sure about himself or his work and he continually asked me if what he was doing was right. He seemed to be very responsive to the one on one attention and expressed his feelings of wanting to understand what he was doing. From there Mrs. Ballard and I went back to the special education classroom, which was the size of a walk-in closet, where I waited for her to bring in a couple of students. This is when I met Kayla and Latisha. Both girls are in fifth grade and having troub...