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Subject: self-confidence Author: Jan [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 13:04:45 09/04/10 Sat Having just worked through module 2 and completed my assignment, i thought i would share the difference that having self confidence makes to students. On completion of the phonemic awareness game, the opportunity arose to discuss the student's self-esteem/confidence. A student that I have been working with enjoyed the phonemic awareness games and although he was 'recognising ' the words and matching them he did not really think that he was reading them. We moved on to discuss the list of good things and not so good things, which initially he declared “I'm not good at nothing”, but after discussion it was decided that it wasn't the most important thing to be good at writing and spelling but other things were important too. His sporting achievements were good and when reminded about this, the student went on to tell me about his football and hockey. I pointed out that in the previous game he 'recognised' words on a card. I asked him if he felt this was maybe a bit like reading and he completely astonished me by picking up the cards and reading the words without any help at all. He then added to the list another column that said 'things that I can nily do' and in that column he wrote 'redin' (reading). His opinion of himself had changed dramatically in just one session. By the end of the session he had read the first 3 pages of the book that we had chosen. Hopefully this will continue but even if there is not much more improvement, this child has a self belief that is inspiring. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]