Week 5: Portrait of Possibility

·      Identify a particular student for whom you believe VTS might be a help, a challenge, or both. 

·      Describe the student using a pseudonym

·      Identify VTS attributes that might be beneficial to this student

·      Develop/Briefly discuss a plan for addressing the needs of this student specifically with VTS.

My situation is special in this part. I choose the group that only have two kids and they are twins. I think both of them are active and can observe many things and make lots of narratives. It seems that they don’t have the obvious problem like to be shy or always keep silent. But I think they still have their own problems.

They are very active and have a great passion in art. Both of them want to show off during the discussion. They even compete with each other, so sometimes one hasn’t finished yet, the other already can’t wait to say his own opinions. When they argue one specific part in the image, they often don’t listen to each other and insist their own idea.

I think one important function VTS can do is to let students know how to listen to others’ opinions carefully, and always respect different ideas. VTS is a good chance for students expressing themselves, but at the same time they should listen to others and even build up new ideas by connecting others’ ideas. I believe this attributes of VTS will be beneficial to these two students.

I plan to remind them of paying attention when the other is talking. Tell them they could not begin to talk until someone finishes his talking, When you listen to others carefully, others will also listen to you carefully. I think they will come up with more narratives by developing this part.