Yesterday was a pretty smooth day. Kati did the Second Great Lesson in the morning, and we followed that up with math and language group lessons. She did math with two groups of six, and I did language with two groups of six. Today we'll switch. It went swimmingly, and even my kids who are loathe to write wrote down the lesson without complaining. Then came writing time.
NL is a delightful kid. He's deaf and has a cochlear implant, but he's bright and sweet. He doesn't really get human emotion, though. He wouldn't do the writing yesterday. Immediately after the clip ended, he claimed to have forgotten what happened. I didn't believe him and thought he was just being difficult. Power struggle ensued. Nice, Shel. Did I look for ways to diffuse the problem? Nope - there's me, fanning the flames. Not my finest moment. I don't understand him sometimes, and I'm sure he doesn't understand me. He didn't get that I was frustrated, or he didn't care. He just stares blankly back at me the whole time. I kept him back after class and told him he had to at least start. I asked if watching the clip again would help - he said yes, so we watched it again. Still, he did not write. GAH!
So, how do I not engage him? How do I get him engaged with other kids? A person who has no emotional connection to anyone around him is a sociopath in the making. How do I connect this kid? I don't know what to do.
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