Double Drop-Offs

Amber’s Drop Off

When Amber was so lost at first, I really felt her frustration.  It was so hard to watch her be totally and completely lost.  There’s something inexplicable about being overwhelmed with sensory information and frustration.  It seems like staying in a straight line really benefitted Amber.  I’m so glad she was immediately successful this second time.  I’m sure she feels very relieved.

Lauren’s Drop Off

I felt very invested in Lauren’s performance on the drop off.  Of course, I wanted her to be successful, and I knew she would be, but I wasn’t thinking about how her performance would reflect on my teaching.  I wanted her to be successful so she wouldn’t feel how awful it is to be lost.

I was pretty nervous when Lauren got to Call and MLK.  I was worried she still didn’t know where she was and would walk off the grid.  She’d been walking so slowly that I was nervous she didn’t know where she was.  I’m grateful my read on it was wrong and that she knew exactly what was up.

It was so, so hard not to prompt Lauren or offer any sort of feedback at all.  I really had to bite my tongue and not give her any information at all.  Along those lines, the few times Lauren was in the road a little bit, I tried to balance being in the road with her to make her more visible with needing the cars to be near enough to her to give her the right information.  I think I did a decent job of that, but I remember thinking about how my presence in the road impacted traffic.  Maybe I reassigned the energy used for verbal feedback to thinking about traffic patterns.