Sounds like you need to have a conversation with the behavior coach
about the problems you are encountering with the student with the
BIP.

On 11/03/09, OP wrote:
> This is fourth grade! We were required to have literacy stations
> the second week of school-we have a new literacy coach this year.
> No time was set aside to train the students.
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> Two of three students that I am having issues with are identified
> SLD. One also has a BIP. He sees the behavior coach once a week,
> I have no idea what she does with him, but I have not seen any
> positive changes since she began pulling him.
>
> I give my students very a very detailed set of instruction on
> color paper to match the color of the group they are in. I am
> using station activities that were suggested to me by the literacy
> coach. It isn't that the work is too hard, it is that these three
> students are not self-motivated and need to have someone
> constantly at their side in order to get their work done. If I
> continually spend my energy on them I am neglecting the other 14
> students in my class.
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> I would love to have the luxury of not having small group until
> after the first nine weeks so that I could monitor and train the
> students for stations. I just don't see that happening with our
> current coach.
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> On 11/03/09, tarheelcoach wrote:
>> What grade is this?
>>
>> Students have to be trained to work in the centers. I never
>> really got my centers going until the end of the 1st marking
>> period - it took that long to get the students to the point
>> where they could be successful working in the centers. That
>> was fifth grade.
>>
>> That said, my school doesn't require teachers to be a slave to
>> the HM program - teachers are free to adjust the program to fit
>> the needs of their students. If your students aren't being
>> successful, ask for help from your instructional coach and your
>> administrators. If they can't help you find a way to make the
>> centers work, find that something that will work.

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