April Article

I read the article, “Collaborative Preteaching of Students at Risk for Academic Failure.” In this article, it talked about what it meant to preteach and how to intervene for students at risk. Many times as we know, we can see when a student is at risk long before the build-up of ramifications happens. This article addresses the fact that we can preteach and model for students before a unit is discussed so they have the advantage of knowing material within the unit. I think this also helps with confidence of the student to feel like what they are learning is interesting and they know something about it. It prevents the child from feeling lost in the classroom when discussing a topic. The article presents the idea that a teacher would need to plan ahead and have the student go over something like vocabulary before a topic is introduced. This is called preteaching. I think the article lays this out specifically for this to happen with resource teachers or specialists. I think this is a great way to use the specialists and collaborate. The specialists will be able to give a background and some knowledge of the topic before it is taught. I can see this even happening with specialists for the whole class instead of a specific group of students or in addition to these students.

The setback is we as teachers have to really really plan ahead. I am already learning to do that even more than I already do right now, but it can be difficult when you have a child at risk to plan way ahead for them as well. It does add up. I’m counting on the fact that it will continue to get easier and smoother as I go along, as it already has.

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