What it means to be a Learning Support Teacher?

This week my four `Year 2' girls showed they had grasped the concept of rhyme, and two of them can now tell me every letter and sound in the alphabet. My Dyslexic boys in Year 4, were able to answer all their phonic/spelling questions on the computer, and made it to their `game' stage - for the first time!

For any ordinary person this would probably mean nothing - but to those children, and to their `teacher' it was a great achievement.

What does it mean to be a Learning Support Teacher? It means that you have a part to play in the little successes that children with Learning Difficulties or Learning Disabilities have. You have an opportunity to see the smiles on their faces, as you watch their confidence grow.

These achievements may be slow, and sometimes they may never reach the `great' goals you have for them; but you will have an opportunity to `Be There, Be Aware and Show You Care'.

You also have the opportunity to encourage
parents and other teachers, who like yourself
at times, may feel discouraged.

This is what this BLOG is all about.
It may be a little bit boring at times,
as I `carry on' with that `theory' and `strategies',
which you have probably come across before; but I
hope that some of what I share with you, as a
teacher and a parent, may give you a little help
and a little lift.