Struggling with the Struggle
In this last post, I want to expand on my previous blog. Struggling readers, struggling writers, struggling mathematicians, struggling scientists, struggling students … we have read and discussed it frequently throughout this program, in each of our classes, about the struggles students have in school, in subject/content areas, with skills, and so on. And yet, if you are like me, you are struggling with the potential struggle you might struggle with when working with a struggler ….. (Ha sounds like the start of a Lil Wayne verse... he does what I was trying to do there a little better than me: Carter 5 – Let it Fly [1:47] https://youtu.be/Gn2oCc3bPZc?t=107 you’re welcome). How do we reach the struggling student? Why are they struggling? What does it mean to struggle? Bomer and Bomer describes struggling readers as, “People who, for one reason or another, misapprehended the reading process and have not put a reading system together that adds up to meaning;