Entry 3

I was able to spend more time at Barrett Elementary school than I did at the beginning of my volunteer work. I was able to notice how some of the students really struggled with some of the concepts. The way that the teacher helped those students was to work with them one on one. She would explain things slower for those students using pictures and simple words. They would work things through step by step. At Dan Peterson, many different learning methods were used to teach the students because many of the students could not speak. Some could speak but not very well. One student did not know English but did know a different language. For some of the students we would help them connect words with their meanings by having pictures to go with what they were reading. They would have to match the words to the pictures. We also used some action pictures. We would have the students say what the people in the pictures were doing. Each  student understands things differently. It is important to make sure that each student gets an opportunity to have an equal learning experience by teaching in a variety of different ways.