Sunday, June 23, 2013

Will we have enough room?

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom will we have enough room?... That is how I see the classrooms in the center I am observing. The center has a huge growth  in children, but as the rooms grow so does the growing pains. A lot of the new children have learning issues, and have arrived to late to have "screenings" done at the school. In fact the director states "It is summer, we really do not focus on learning but having fun". So what happens  when the child does start the curriculum and there is an issue?
I see these children struggling with every day procedures or activities, how do or does a teacher suggest that perhaps more needs to be done if the school is in "summer mode"?  We also see flustered and anxious teachers because they are unable to work with the students who are showing difficulties with the tasks put in front of them. One of the days I was there the four year old teacher had two children having complete melt-downs, and one with ADHD following the directions of the two having the melt down. There has to be a way to make things work more smoothly, because the more the children got out of hand, the more flustered the teacher got, it went to the point that she had to call the director up to take one to her office. The child was sent home. 
But it is those incidents that are caused by children feeling like they need attention because they are struggling with something, these same children missed the cutoff for early assessment and now they are just barely making it by in the classroom. So once again I wonder when the children enter kindergarten will there be enough room for those children who are exhibiting early signs of behavioral problems.
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