I'm having trouble coming up with a statement of the problem for my thesis course. I am a first grade teacher getting my masters as a reading specialist. If I could have some examples it would be an enormous help!

Okay, let me get this straight. You want us to help you with your thesis when one of the basics of our forum is 'no homework help', so I guess this falls within boundaries. If you are getting your masters as a reading specialist, my dear, then get out there and READ and READ. And don't come back on me and call me ms. nasty, not so. The best advice I can give you is do everything for yourself or you are not learning what you need. How have you come this far ?

I never had anyone to ask for help with my thesis and you know, I wouldn't have asked anyway. I had to do everything myself and it was difficult at times but I won (doing a rocky impression punching air! ) and had enormous satisfaction from the experience.

I know another person's statement would never work for me. No one's class is the same. I only wanted to hear other ideas I could bounce off. Mine could be the exact opposite if that is what is relative to my teaching/learning experience. I always encourage my students share ideas, as long as they don't steal ideas and participate in the learning experience on equal levels. Sharing ideas "my dear" is not stealing.

Didn't you ever learn that a truly confident person doesn't need to put others down in order to make themselves feel better?

I didn't say you were stealing, where do you get that in my post ? Read the forum basics. I apologize if I hit a nerve. And yes, I like your last sentence regarding a truly confident person doesn't need to put others down. Where did you read I was putting you down, unless you were expecting to be put down when you asked the question?

We don't put people down here, jarjar. If they can't take the response they get, then they shouldn't have asked in the first place. Again, we don't assist with homework questions.