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Not to offend you but it sounds like you've never taught an economically disadvantaged child. The first step is they need to feel that they can do it, already a
by isthisthingon99 4y ago
Not to offend you but it sounds like you've never taught an economically disadvantaged child. The first step is they need to feel that they can do it, already a tall order. Learning disabilities are not that relevant here.
- pseudo0 4y agoI tutored both economically disadvantaged students, and students with significant learning disabilities. My experience was that the economically disadvantaged students generally could make progress, if you caught them on a good day. Tutoring some of the students with learning disabilities was profoundly depressing though. Some students simply could not understand basic abstraction, like the idea that 'x' represents a number. Same with hypothetical questions. Getting shepherded through Algebra 1 won't magically grant those students abstract reasoning skills, it will just dilute the usefulness of passing the class as a metric.
- isthisthingon99 4y agoThen it sounds like with your specific experience, you probably were in touch with a disproportionate amount of students with "learning disabilities"