Starting my alternate placement at an alternative provision, I have been teaching Maths. In the Y11 class there is a boy who doesn’t want to engage with school as he already has a job for when he leaves school. Through forming a relationship with him and talking to him about his work I found that he had been learning and retaining information, he had just not been writing it down.
After further conversations, I found that he did not like writing in his book as he didn’t like his work being seen. He would be happier if the work was on a worksheet. I now give him a worksheet each lesson. This discovery has helped the student for all of his lessons, not just mine. This has given me a lot of fulfilment, helping a child with his learning.
