Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Student Makes Up Stories While interning in a kindergarten class, there was a student, I'll call her Rebecca, in my classroom that made up stories. My cooperating teacher would receive an angry phone call two or three times a week demanding to know why their daughter was always being picked on by other students. My cooperating teacher would go through the motions of finding out what happened, who did it, and why Rebecca never mentioned it to her or me. The most recent story Rebecca made up was that a boy from another class choked her during recess. My cooperating teacher again received a call, but this time it was the principal demanding to know what was going on because Rebecca's parents were threatening to press charges. When my cooperating teacher said she did not know anything about it, the principal came to the class and spoke with Rebecca to hear what happened. Rebecca accused boy X of doing it the previous day. Unfortunately for Rebecca, boy X moved to another city the week before and could not have done what she said. Two things: Rebecca is an only child, and she is the most intelligent student in the class. What could I do as a teacher to help Rebecca feel comfortable and want to be at school? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) It sounds as if Rebecca is seeking attention, whether it be from her mother at home or someone at school. I think that providing her with opportunities to feel needed and wanted at school would be beneficial. Give her certain jobs to perform throughout the day, such as moving all of the behavior clips back to 'green' at the end of each day, handing out papers to her classmates, or organizing the backpacks in the morning.