This students shows little interest in other things. I'd like step by step guidelines for him. What are his odds?
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Here... This is quite similar:\n\nHow do you get to Carnagie Hall?\n\nPRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE\n\nNot everyone can be a Tony Hawk.\n\nBut everyone can try.\n\nHere are some sites to get you started:\nhttp://www.drskateboard.com/\nhttp://skateboarddirectory.com/srch/?qt=United_Professional_Skateboarders_Association\nhttp://www.wcsk8.com/1999/ProfessionalAm.htm\nhttp://www.skateboardermag.com/
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Well, do you think the person has potential for a career in education?  If so, why?  If not, you probably shouldn't be writing his/her rec.  That's a good place to start.  Many scholarships provide a coversheet for the letters of recommendation, which includes questions for the recommender.  If you have one of those, these questions can serve as a starting point.  If not, think about what makes the student unique.  How do you know him/her?  What makes you want to recommend him/her for the scholarship?  Why do you hope he/she gets it?\n\nStart with an introduction including how you know the student (teacher, friend, etc.), how long you've known them, etc.  From there, talk about what makes him unique in whatever capacity you best know him (student, friend, etc.).  If there's a specific incident that highlights some of the students outstanding qualities, recounting it can be helpful.  If possible, try to support your generalizations with examples and anecdotes.
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Practice, practice, practgice.  Tell him what you like.  He'll be relieved.  He probably has no idea what he's doing, and as long as you don't make him feel stupid about it, he'll appreciat the coaching.
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try talking to him, and just try to assign certain times of the day for studying
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I am a special education teacher, and also the mother of a child with special needs (learning disabilities, ADHD, OCD, and a bunch of other diagnoses).\n\nMom to mom.... don't freak about this.\n\nYou hit the nail on the head when you noted that HE is not phased by the idea of doing kindergarten again.\n\nThe BEST time for repeating grades is in Kindergarten and/or 1st grade.  This allows him to get a good foundation of those basic skills, rather than falling farther and farther behind while being presented work of greater and greater difficulty.\n\nEven at higher grades, if he did the repeating thing early on, most kids won't notice that he's that much older than them. However, bullies will be bullies, and they find something to pick on with everybody... just report them and the school should deal with it.\n\nWhen he is 30 years old, nobody will care if he graduated at 18, 19, or even 21! All they'll care about is whether he has a high school diploma or not. If he goes to college...the college won't care what age he got the high school diploma, either!\n\nYou said he is in a private school. Is he getting speech therapy for his apraxia? Is his teacher trained in special education methods? You do know that the public schools will still provide speech therapy and special educator resource services for children in private school (required by law).  \n\nIf this private school he's attending didn't get you and him linked to the services he needs, if their teachers do not have special education training... I would strongly recommend that you seek a different school for him. With his learning differences, he really needs teachers highly trained in instruction methods for kids with language disabilities and ADHD, as well as speech therapy. How's his handwriting? Have they discussed Occupational Therapy for him? \n\nTwo years retention is really the most he should ever have. In public school, especially in special education, retention is rare and usually only involves repeating kindergarten once and/or 1st grade once. Additional instruction needs are taken care of through pull-out special education with specialists trained in helping students with learning differences build their learning skills.\n\nThe earlier the correct intervention, the better off he will be in the long run. \n\nIf you want to keep him out of public schools for faith reasons, you may need to look at moving to a place where there is a Christian private special education school.  If you can't afford to move, you may have to trust that your and your church's instruction of faith will be enough to compensate for the concerns you have with public schools, and send him to the special education teachers and therapists that can give him the academic help he needs. \n\nLook at these sites:\n\nhttp://www.wcris.org/WebFiles/ResourceFiles/ESeries4.doc\n\nhttp://www.policyreview.org/jan99/fox.html\n\nhttp://dpi.wi.gov/sped/doc/prischpart.doc\n\nAn example of public school provision of special ed to private school students: http://www.sandi.net/comm/factsheets/special_ed_pppss.pdf (requires Adobe Acrobat)\n\nFinding a new private school? Try these:\n\nhttp://www.privateschoolreview.com/\n\nhttp://www.stlrcga.org/x439.xml (many states and large cities offer this sort of listing)\n\nhttp://www.napcse.org/\n\nhttp://www.schoolfinders.net/\n\nhttp://aerkis.com/\n\n\nTake care, pray on this, and trust that G-d will guide you.
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Since you have no classes and are in different grades, I don't think it'll be easy to get his attention. If you feel like you're going to DIE without knowing him, then try to see what he's interested in and join some same clubs as he does. Just don't seem too much like a stalker. =O
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Ask your teacher for help. \n\nFor background info you need to interview the parent about medical history, developmental milestones (i.e. if they were met on time or not), current medication, living situation, student's likes/dislikes, and behavioral problems at home if any.\n\nFor observations: you need to observe the student and just write everything you see within that time frame. You do not need to analyze or interpret what/why the student is doing what he/she is doing. For example: During classroom instruction, student was observed to run around the classroom and hit everyone near him with his shoe. Teacher asked him to sit. Student did not comply and began yelling the national anthem while hopping on one foot. \n\nFor templates on the KABC-II, look at the manual for a good starting point.
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three options:\n1. if somehow he can greatly enhance his intelligence (less likely)\n2. practise more (possible)\n3. change major (possible)
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try talking to the teacher and see if they will prvide you with the appropriate material or at least point you in the right direction.
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go to your local community college and ask them if they have math tutors. i'm a math tutor at my community college and tutor kids in middle school a lot. also advertise that you are looking for a math tutor as well. if that doesn't help, try any of those homework/tutor centers like Silvan Leatning Center. I help out at one in California, and they relaly help the kids. it's also in an environment where there are others just like him struggling in the same subject, so he won't feel so alone. try to stay away from instrctional videos and things like that. they dono't help that much since he is only 12 his attention span may be too low for something like that. one on one interaction is the best. good luck
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This is a fascinating question; how does one advise a young person who is going to college but doesn't have all the makings of a student?\n\n1. You mentioned this girl doesn't read. Is that the issue? Does she avoid reading because she doesn't read well or because she has a learning disability? In either case, she is GOING to NEED to read to be in school. College requires more reading than high school. Much more. Why not talk to her best teachers in school and see what they say about her reading skills. There are plenty of private and public services to evaluate and tutor reading and improve her skills. This will be a LIFELONG benefit for her. Everyone needs to know how to read, to read critically and well and to comprehend and remember what they read. If nothing else, get her reading evaluated and get it up to a decent level.\n\nIf she isn't reading because she thinks reading is boring, but she CAN read, then find books that interest her and make her READ them and do BOOK REPORTS to you every week. OR else. Benjamin Carson, Baltimore brain surgeon, had an illiterate mother who made him do this. He stopped being a goof in school and became a world-famous doctor. She made him read and she listened to his reports and if he didn't do them, there was hell to pay. \n\nSome people like books ABOUT people, so find what she's interested in and get books from the library and have her read and write reports and read them aloud to you. Be firm on this.\n\n2. A student who gets B's and C's is obviously able to do some good school work, and she is going to college so she's probably more likely badly taught, lazy and uninspired, not stupid. Don't accept laziness or apathy. Schools don't inspire the average because they are too busy to worry about individual kids and making them better. But you have to do that. Don't accept apathetic behavior. \n\nIf she can use a computer, she's not dumb. She's just bored. Get her into some outside activity, volunteering charity work is a good idea. Get her to see the world, its problems and challenges. Have her see how hard it is to make any money on a minimum wage job. \n\nIf you get her out of her apathy, and into good reading skills, next you want to make sure she can write coherently. That's where the book reports come in. Have her do reviews on Amazon.com. They will publish anyone's reviews. She can read a book, do a report, and publish the report as a review on Amazon. You can critique the review and get her to correct her English.\n\nIf she does this non-stop all summer, she will be ready for college and she is likely to find something she is interested in. It will require PUSHING on your part, but you will be giving her a priceless gift; the GIFT of being interested in life, in being skilled at learning and good at written communication. You can do nearly anything with those skills.  Trust me on this!
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sounds boring..good luck
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Try to avoid using external motivators, especially things like money, gifts or candy.  If you have to go outside "learning for the sake of learning" try to emphasize the importance of education in terms of jobs, meeting adult friends (because his K-12 school friends WILL move away) and independence.  \n\nI experienced the same thing with my little brother.  He's been out of school for two years and won't be getting into COMMUNITY COLLEGE until September 2008 (that's how long the waitlist is).  He wasn't even going to go to community college, but I pestered him by sending him brochures and application information for all sorts of schools and programs until he found one that interested him.\n\nIf your brother is into gaming, has he considered a job in game design or programming?  I know it sucks to do the work yourself, but you could always order up some brochures from schools that have those types of programs.  You could also send him links to different employers websites, showing the kind of things they look for in applicants.  The trick is just to give him lots and lots of options until he finds the one that clicks with him.  When he can envision himself doing that job ten or twenty years down the road, he'll be willing to meet a few challenges to get there.
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It's possible this child does not have the capability to catch up.  In cases like this, schools often allow the student to attend just to get them out into society rather than locked away in loneliness at home.  I attended school with such a child.  He was fantastic with art and music and that's what he did throughout his school day.  The other students loved him and he was much happier being with kids his own age.  There was no question about his ability to learn......\n\nSome teachers will pass a student believing the next teacher will do better at teaching them but that would be a negligent thing to do.
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Hi BrianL! Anyway, bad course requirement! Keep the major and make the school let him take the class anyway. I'm serious. Talk to the professor and the professor will let him take it anyway. They can, and always do that. They like to be approached. They are lonely like me.
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hummmmmm, hopefully he wasnt a student
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I will approach this person by first trying to understand what he is going through before allowing any external intervention.\n\n1.Talk to him. Ask him what exactly is he trying to do and find out what happened to him. Ask if he needs help. I mean what if he really has got some personal problems that held him up?\n2. If it doesn't work, report to the instructor.\n3. If it still doesn't work, just kick him out of the group.\n\nI don't agree with giving him more work. At the end of the day, what you really want to achieve is a project work well done, not argue about who did more or less of the work. So, I won't risk my grades for that.