Andy is a kid in my phonics class. He has a disability. I think he's autistic. Last class, I told all the students to finish the page, and then we'd go over the answers together. Probably, none of the students understood me, but if I just keep repeating something and pointing, then they usually get the message. Or they don't, and they copy their neighbors.
Andy didn't understand and this made him very upset. He yelled a couple of times, and then he started crying. I'm still not completely comfortable when a child bursts out crying in my class (it happens a few times every week). I usually try to judge whether the kid is likely to stop crying soon, or whether they're going to keep doing it and become a distraction. If they're going to keep crying, I get a Korean teacher to help. In Andy's case, I knew I definitely needed help. Andy went with the Korean teacher, and returned ten minutes later. In another three minutes, he was bawling again.
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