Transition Meeting

Just this afternoon, I attended my younger son's transition meeting. It turned out beyond what I had expected.

From three teachers' (General Education, Special Education, and Resource Specialist) perceptive in Ryan's performances all agreed that he went beyond his grade level. Thus, he will be placed in Resource Special Class thirty minutes a day to reinforce his writing and reading comprehension while he attends mainstream classes all day in the Fall. Frankly, I thought this is an extremely huge jump from 100 percent in special education class to above 80 percent in mainstream classes within one year.

1) His reading is at the beginning of second grade level. He jumped two grades within 10 months of schooling. The special education teacher said that none of her second grade students can read that high. While reading at a second grade level, he still needs to work on reading comprehension skills, though all of them mentioned that he has IMPROVED so much.

2) He is at the top of math. He is able to subtract at a difficult level. I guess Ryan got the genetic from his dad, who can do at the top of Calculus 3.

3) Ryan's directing writing assessment shows that he is at a proficiency level. He was close to the top of District Writing Assessment (DWA.) Actually, in the beginning of the school year, he was unable to spell or write any single word. Now, he can write at least 2 sentences. For example, he wrote exactly on DWA: "I see the buttfly is orange and black. It is
butitfl (beautiful.) "

4) His speech has improved incredibly. Ryan has passed almost all of his speech benchmarks except he needs to work on "S." Oh, that s very similar to me. I guess Ryan got this from me.

Everyone at the meeting mentioned including the principal, "He has showed a lot of motivation in learning. We need more students like him. He will be missed especially with his sense of humor. " They even raised their hands who experienced hearing the comment from Ryan, "Oh, that's boring!"with his mischievous laugh. This made me gulped for what he had said, but at the same time, I felt so proud of his achievement.