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What the Sidewalk Hides

What the Sidewalk Hides. Understanding and Sustaining Students At Risk. Saint Mary College ASCD Erin Thaler. At-Risk Students. Who are “at-risk” students? What is the process by which these students can be aided? What methodology do teachers use?

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What the Sidewalk Hides

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  1. What the Sidewalk Hides Understanding and Sustaining Students At Risk Saint Mary College ASCD Erin Thaler

  2. At-Risk Students • Who are “at-risk” students? • What is the process by which these students can be aided? • What methodology do teachers use? • How can discourse be restructured to avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy?

  3. Caution Against Formalisms I say moreover that you make a great, a very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use. Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. An intermediary inventive mind must make the application, by using its originality. William James, Talks to Teachers

  4. Identifying Students’ Needs

  5. Physical Needs • Survival • Food • Shelter • Clothing • Security • Home • School

  6. Social Needs • Belonging needs • Classroom as community • Establishing norms of interaction • Identifying and welcoming diversity • Honoring and celebrating strengths • Connecting communities • Esteem needs • Hidden message of the “good student” • Know thy student

  7. Intellectual Needs • Need for knowledge • Need for understanding • “At-Risk” Clientele • - Gifted • - Special Education • - The center of the normal curve

  8. Hiding in the Sidewalk:Special Needs • Gifted • Attitude about learning • How instruction occurs • Their role in the process • Meeting the need for challenge • Special Education • Diagnosed needs - IEP • Student records

  9. Hiding in the Sidewalk:General Education • Undiagnosed needs • Informal reading inventory • Informal assessments • Interdisciplinary Pedagogy • Adjusted reading strategies • Reinforcement of technical vocabulary • Connections across curriculum • Technology as tool • Multiple intelligences theory

  10. Paving the Future • Who are “at-risk” students? • Those whom we refuse to see • What is the process by which these students can be aided? • Cognizance of individual needs • What methodology do teachers use? • Search, rescue, and restore • How can discourse be restructured to avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy? • Vigilance in vocabulary

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