{"id":346,"date":"2014-01-23T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2014-01-23T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:43:47","slug":"if-you-build-it-they-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"If you build it they will come&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-347 aligncenter\" alt=\"Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Photo-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Photo-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Photo-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I didn&#8217;t want to rush into anything and have spent 6 months trying to understand the dynamics of my new school and the needs of my students. \u00a0The overriding feature, compared to my previous experiences, appears to be a lack of English language. \u00a0They are attentive and quite motivated students but too often when they are required to work outside the classroom I see them just missing point. I fear that the key element is that without first language English support at home the students are not getting that additional guidance that they need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So my response is the creation of the Learning Space &#8211; an after school space designed to be conducive to study. \u00a0To help this we have a quiet room, a range of materials, various seating options, snacks and on-hand teacher support. \u00a0So now I sit and wait. \u00a0I don&#8217;t want this to be a place that students get sent to for missing deadlines. \u00a0I want it to be a place they come to because they know it helps. \u00a0For this reason I have gone for a relatively soft launch and now sit here waiting for the students to come. \u00a0I hope that they will come and intend to track the progress of all students against those that regularly attend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Please reassure me that they will come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t want to rush into anything and have spent 6 months trying to understand the dynamics of my new school and the needs of my students. \u00a0The overriding feature, compared to my previous experiences, appears to be a lack of English language. \u00a0They are attentive and quite motivated students but too often when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-space","count-0","even alt","author-neilcommons","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}