She was sweet and worked hard.
I was doing a new kind of testing , one that looked at reading differently.
This test looked at how kids read words off the page AND how kids remember ( comprehend) what they read.
Kasey could read the words off the page beautifully!!!
When I did the part that looked at her comprehension, she fell apart. Literally....
She started to cry and soon was a total mess.
" I have no idea what I just read!", she cried . " It takes me 6 hours to do homework at night. I don't remember ANYTHING I read!!"
I told her that everything would be ok and together we could fix that.
Now she is a senior.
Today she stopped by my classroom.
Tomorrow she is taking her last final at our school--( we are a 7-12 school).
She is graduating early.
Monday she starts at a local community college.
She is going into Education.
I just LOVE my job!!!
4 comments:
I can't think of anything that's more satisfying professionally than seeing one of your students succeed.
now this an awesome story!
That is an awesome story and I am trying to keep the tears in my eyes. I miss teaching so much! I am glad there are teachers like you out there. My son has some tremendous teachers and he wont realize what an impact they have on him until he is older. *sigh*
This is so wonderful - how proud you must feel.
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