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Molly and her aide Ruby Dwyer have worked up a simple picture code that identifies the different teaching materials and machines in the lab. For instance, lesson cards have a drawing of a red rabbit with a page number instead of “Criteria Reference Testing Material” and page number written on them. The students come into the lab at the beginning of class, get their assignment card from their slot on the board and gather the materials they need for the daily lesson.
Easter Egg Hunt
According to Mrs. Dwyer, using the brightly colored assignment cards is “kind of like hunting for Easter eggs.” She added that the children find what they need for lessons without any difficulty, only occasionally asking for help in locating a book or tape.
Mrs. Hobson emphasized that her students weren’t just “plugged into the computers” and left to learn on their own. “I’m always monitoring them at the machines...They need to have an immediate response from Mrs. Dwyer or me, to know if they have something right or wrong.”
With her sixth graders, Molly was constantly moving around the little room, checking each child’s progress and giving her eight students more positive enrcobragement than a regular classroom of 25 gets in a week.
“You’ve got that down pat...Everything’s perfect here...100 percent Thomas. That’s wonderful...You know
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