Earlier this week I was working with an extremely hyperactive child. Getting through his homework was a struggle: he threw himself on the floor, disrupted other children and made inappropriate noises. After an hour I was ready to quit, but we persevered and finished. After homework the kids at my work are supposed to read for 30 minutes and write based off of that day’s prompt. My student and I hopped right into the writing as I didn’t think I had the patience to deal with reading. The prompt was for Dia de los Muertos; the student was to write about a person in their life who died. If not a person, then a pet. My student, luckily, had experienced neither. So we brainstormed and we thought of something else that he had lost: a quarter. By the end of the session he had written a funny, creative story that wished his quarter a farewell as it lived for eternity in “quarter heaven.” A little patience went a long way and I realized that there was more to the student than I thought.
It’s always a surprise.
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