Since the new school year started, I have been working with three lovely ladies who come to my after school group from the local elementary school. There they work as aides in special education classrooms. Before the work began, we had a brief introductory meeting. Since then it has been on-the-job training for them. We have limited time together, really the only time we have is when we are together in the group.
I am looking for ways, advice, suggestions to improve our work together. How can I help them to understand our aims without overwhelming them? How can I help them to work more 'conductively'?
How do I train conductive assistants?
My Dad
5 years ago
is there an opportunity for each of them in turn to join in with the task series (or part of it) If someone is free in the group we regularly put down a plinth for them to join in the programme to get them thinking from the point of view of the child and how the programme is structured etc...
ReplyDeleteAlso, recently we've begun to introduce 'themes' for the assistants and conductors in the group - our current theme is 'hands off' i.e. trying to use less of our hands and more of our words, minds, rhythm (and if we do use our hands use our fingertips not our whole grip).... we can remind each other - the assistants can remind the conductors too.... we think the next theme will be rhythm...
just ideas. i have more ideas of little things we have been gradually doing with our assistants. email me if you would like to chat about these things.
It is a difficult situation as ideally you would not have assistants but in reality they are often a part of our groups and so we need them to think as conductively as they can.
Jules