My daughter is in Reception class and is a younger child so will still be 4 when she leaves Reception.
Overall her learning is pretty good, she’s not the best behaved child, but equally she’s certainly not the worst. By behaviour I mean - not always listening, sometimes talking when she shouldn’t be etc....all things that we discuss with her and encourage her to make sure she’s not constantly repeat offending!
This week I had her teacher tell me that we needed to work on her comprehension as although her reading is good her understanding of what’s going on isn’t and she’ll often go off on a tangent and make up stories unrelated. Whilst I’m happy to help in any way with her learning and will of course support her additional needs, what I’m not happy about is the teacher asked a parent volunteer who goes into school to check her comprehension and report back on her findings.
I’ve been a volunteer at the school myself with both reading and other things that are specific to my field of employment but I’ve never been asked to make a judgement call on a child’s learning ability. I’m there to support the teachers and TAs and to help the children. I am asked to note how the child did, any problems with words/sounds they get stuck on etc but never specifically to report back on something.
AIBU to think that surely this should be something the teacher or TA should be supporting her with?
It is a very large class - over 30 and I did ask the mum specifically if she’d read with my LO and how she felt her comprehension was and that’s when I found out she was tasked with checking her comprehension.
Am I being a bit precious or should I address this with the teacher?
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DoobzToobznHattrick · 04/04/2019 10:03
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