Igrid seems to have strengths in her reading comprehension, science, and social studies achievement. These are the departments she's scored the highest in, percentile-wise. However, she is struggling in spelling, math computation, and math concepts. These would be the areas Ingrid's grandmother should consider when deciding how to help Ingrid.
In the chapter we read, it talks about considering improvement. Even though these are standardized scores for Ingrid, they do not reflect what strides she may have made during the year. Ingrid may have done even more poorly in her least favorite subjects earlier in the year, but made gains, even though they are not yet up to the average scores of others. Therefore in order to help Ingrid, her grandmother should look at what Ingrid has been consistently working on so as to not chastize her for something she may well have made gains in. She should also consult with the teacher and get qualitative data on Ingrid's work, so she has something other than numbers to look at.
If Ingrid's grandmother takes all this information into account, she can approach helping Ingrid from a rational point of view and be an essential support for her granddaughter. She can connect what Ingrid is good at to what she is not good at and see if strengths can be gained there (i.e. solving math problems that relate to science - formulas, etc, since Ingrid is good at science but has difficulties with math) This may help in the case that the deficits are interest problems and not learning disabilities. By exploring Ingrid's difficulties with her her grandmother can observe how Ingrid goes about completing work in these subjects and whether or not further support at school should be sought.
Obviously, the parents/guardians' involvement in their children's learning process is vital.
ReplyDeleteThe success of a student is the result of a fine combination of multiple factors, among others is the support and contribution of the family.
However, teachers should interfere and monitor the family' participation.
An agreement between parents and teacher must be establishment taking into consideration the utmost interest and benefit of the child and avoiding any type of confusion or contradiction between what is taught in school and what's covered at home. Parents and teachers must form a team to help the students in acquiring knowledge.