Math class

Hey Guys! It's been a while since my last post. High school has been difficult in many ways. Math has probably been the most difficult. It has been really hard to get my teacher to understand how kids learn differently.  In class we spend 20 minutes going over homework, then we spend 10 minutes explaining the homework for the next night and we spend the remaining 12 minutes going over new information. She gives the instructions to the whole class and then we work on problems individually or with a partner.  She walks around and checks our work but doesn't really talk us through a problem.   For me, 12 minutes isn't enough time to learn something. I need hands on help and more time to learn the new things.  I also need a quiet atmosphere to learn, not a really loud and crowded classroom.  The struggle for me is to get the things I need to learn.

My teacher believes she is teaching me the right way.  She's teaching me the way she was taught to teach students with learning disabilities.  The problem is she hasn't taken the time to ask if what she is doing works for me.  I've tried to explain this to her but it's difficult for me to talk to her, let alone tell her that her way of teaching me isn't working.  Things can't always be perfect.  I understand that.  But it would seem to me that if you know I have a learning difference and you want to teach me something that you would check to see if what you are doing works for me.  I guess that because I have a "C" most people would assume I'm doing ok.  But I know that I could be getting an "A" if I could just get a little more of what I need.

Getting Started

I am Dyslexic. That isn't something that people just blurt out at random.  I have created this blog so that I can tell people about my life and how I deal with all the issues of being dyslexic.  I hope that by sharing my story other people with dyslexia know they aren't alone and shouldn't be embarrassed.