My first visit with my teacher

Hello,

I met my teacher and my outlook on this classroom is much better.  The teacher showed me some the things he was working on with the class.  Mr. Barton teaches Math and Life Skills to 6 - 8 graders in an Autistic classroom, with two paraprofessionals.  Today was Bday so the students that I met last week weren't in the classroom it was a new set.  Mr. Barton seems to be somewhat soft-spoken with the adults and involved and conscience of the students and their behaviors.  I got to the school at 9:00 and the students weren't in the classroom yet.  Once the students arrived I passed out the students badges as they arrived, then me and the younger of the paraprofessionals took the students to breakfast.  The older of paraprofessional was on duty in the cafeteria and she was great.  The younger paraprofessional interacted with the kids to a minimum and ate her breakfast.  There were two paraprofessionals the older one was on task and very involved in the rountine of the students.  When we left the cafeteria and went back to the classroom the teacher began math.  He started on a numberline worksheet that included skip counting, then they did two pages of number world.  There were two groups the older paraprofessional had 4-5 students working in a group they were a lower functioning group and doing kindergarten skills.  The group the teacher had was 3 boys and they did well on the worksheet once they were helped through the first example and small group instuction continued with the 2 pages of number world work.  Once the students finished this work in maybe 10-15 minutes they had nothing else to do but choice time.  Luckily, they finished with 5 minutes left before changing classes.  The next class came in and a new group came in that were higher functioning in the math area.