Discuss what you have come to “know” about your focus student. Narrow your focus. I choose J., a seven-year-old boy, as my focus student. J. is the tallest child in his classroom. He is also a little overweight, which makes him look even bigger. If I saw J. on the street I would have thought he was nine or ten-years-old. J. is latino and speaks both English and Spanish. J. also has some learning disabilities and he goes to some specials to get help with that. When I first met J. I thought he had some behavioral issues. He was very quiet, but he was the only one who sat on a chair during reading/rug time (everyone sat on the r. I couldn’t understand why was the teacher okay with that. I thought it was to keep him away from the other students
