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Subject: Surprising confidence building exercises!

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Leeverne Jefferson

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Date Posted: 10:13:12 01/20/13 Sun

I noticed that when I did the confidence building exercise with a 14 yr old boy, (in secondary school) reccommended in the course booklet that, not only was it great for the student to recognise their good qualities, but also what they think that they are not good at. When I did this with the student he added in the 'not so good column' his behaviour. I had already recognised that his behaviour was not too good in classes and it brought out a discussion of why he thinks he may behave like this. It then became clear to him why he messed about and was silly in his classes. When he was not comfortable with the work or that he was made to write in lessons, he would find it difficult resulting in disruptive behaviour. After this finding, we were then able to put stratergies in place within the lessons so that his learning was not then affected.
So, this confidence building exercise was not only effective for the dyslexic child to recognise what they are good at but also good for me as a classroom assistant (and also the classroom teachers) to recognise why some dyslexic students may react/behave a certain way, and then this can help us to work closely with them and further the childs potential.
Has anyone else found 'confidence building exercises' helpful in other ways?

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Re: Surprising confidence building exercises!	Barbara Baird (happy)	06:43:09 01/23/13 Wed