As a teacher, I get very nervous when my bosses talk to me (but I don't show it). Every time it happens I'm like "oh god I'm fired!" Even though I'm doing everything I'm supposed to be doing. That's just how my brain works. One of my bosses comes up to me and tells me about a student who was having trouble in my class (grade 1). We'll call her R. That day when I had R in my class I did a review activity and intentionally called on her about 5 times. I wanted to see what she knew and what she didn't. After class I talked with her one on one (I kicked everyone else out of the class). I asked her what she was having trouble with. Turns out she didn't understand spelling of abbreviations and the short question, short answer stuff we'd been working on. I spent about 5-10 minutes going over this with her and she seemed a lot happier and confident from that point on. A few days later I gave that class their test. I went through her test....
SHE GOT A 98!!!!! I was seriously freaking proud of her and myself. I told this story to my boss and he seemed proud of me as well. I was freaking delighted! Hooray! A success story!
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