Find out what a kid needs and teach it. When you know how to determine where the holes are, they're easier to plug. This involves assessment, and discovering a student's cognitive and academic assets and liabilities. I am warmed to the soul to see that developing an IEP for each student has become one of six major recommendations from the 1996 Breaking Ranks report, commissioned by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Carnegie Foundation. Personalizing education is key to reform.
Every day is so incredibly different.
And, it isn't a job to me. This is not work. It's my life. Analyzing and synthesizing lots of pieces to build a case for diagnosing a learning disability, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, giftedness, underachievement, or whatever may be, is a process that is renewed with each new person I test. Working with preschoolers through adults, again in an individualized setting, has taught me an extraordinary amount about human development.