Special Education Case Study Therapeutic Learners

He was an excellent student in math, and strive to do as well in writing and reading. His teacher Ms. Lucas tutored him in English. Even while he was recovering from surgery she still came to tutor him. His reading level that year rose two letters from a B to a D. She has since then passed away, and he wish he got to know her better. Devin accredits Ms. Lucas for him wanting to pursue a career in education, and become a teacher.

Lynsie and I went to Washington Irving Elementary School every Thursday this semester from 8:45 until 9:45 in the mornings. While at the school, we worked with a first-grade student named Reid. The first two weeks at the school, we spent time getting to know Reid and testing him using the Informal Reading Inventory. We used this test to see what we needed to work on with him to help him master each area. After we tested Reid and analyzed the information, we created lesson plans that addressed his needs and we picked out books that were at the appropriate reading level for him.

There are currently fifty-five fifth grade students (twenty-seven girls and twenty-eight boys) at SES split between two classroom teachers. The students range in age from ten to eleven years old. All students have an affiliation with the US military and have experienced multiple moves including transitions to new schools. Instructional Sequence This introductory mathematics unit on the metric system is comprised of seven lessons that should take approximately eleven hours of instruction and practice to complete. Each lesson includes pre-instructional strategies, content presentation, learner participation, an assessment, and follow through activities.

His weaknesses are flexibility, public speaker, drive, and writing. Even though flexibility is one of his strengths, it is also a weakness depending on the degree of the situation; i.e. lack of knowledge of a certain program while he’s at work or representing the campus through SGA. The author knows that writing is not only a major component in all fields including this field, he has come a long way of bettering himself, so that his weakness in writing will eventually become his strength. Ever since elementary school, he was put into programs where students had a hard time understanding the concepts of writing, but in time through the combination of taking foreign language classes and taking full advantage of the program, he did improve his writing skills.

The class objectives included: to be able to orally preset poems using key vocabulary (adjectives), to attend to speaker, and to assess what is heard. At first, the teacher welcomed the students and asked them to write for five minutes “morning pages.” Students had to be completely silent, whatever is in their mind (free writing) serving a tool to practice “mindfulness.” This was a double exercise activity; it gave the opportunity for students to develop writing stamina, and Mrs. Carbone uses their writing as a tool to measure learning. Right after that, the teacher explained the lesson for the day, the class objectives. Since the goal for this class, was to finished presenting their work orally and visually, students were prompted to provide positive on constructive feedback, to follow the class agreements (rules) they created at the beginning of the year, and they only practiced for about seven minutes (pair and share). After the students did collaborative learning, they went back to their seat.

Entry #2: Date and Time: Friday, February 17, 2017, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (3 hours) Task/Activity: Students in both classes started off the class by taking their weekly spelling test. Following this, both classes examined prose-constructed responses completed by fellow students (although responses were kept anonymous). Students would then work in groups to grade the response according to PARCC standards. The class would then come back together as a whole, with each group discussing the grade they gave the response and why. Mrs. Lanza would then reveal the grade she gave the response, hoping that each group fell within one point value and had relatively the same constructive criticism to give.

Her testing accommodations include extended time (1.5) and refocusing/redirection. Program modifications include special seating arrangements, refocusing and redirection, check for understanding and a copy of class notes. A vision consultation service is provided once a month for 45 minutes in the classroom setting. The current evaluation included an assessment of seven areas of cognitive processing, through the

7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School A school is considered to be the place where we acquire proper habits that help us during the whole our life. However, these habits are not always good especially when we are talking about writing. The matter is that writing is a rather special ability that has been common to each of us, however, not everyone is capable of telling that writing is really something they can do perfectly. Being a school kid, we discover only some basic principles of efficient writing such as the mechanical process of writing, basic abilities to present the ideas on paper, and key ideas for an understanding of style. In college, we start to understand that this knowledge is not enough as to write flawlessly, you need to know more than just the structure of the essay and the ways to use resources in your writing.

While examining the student’s form I found that the student receives help for his speech impediment from a speech therapist at the school and he also receives help from an occupational therapist for his line formation and placement. Student I is in a regular classroom and routinely gets help from his therapists and from the ESE teacher. The first goal on his IEP is Student I will write classroom spelling words with proper formation, orientation,

Has creativity literally been executed by schools? Why arrange math and science over other subjects? Since the start of middle school, students have been given a set number of "core subjects" they obtain gain credit for. Four out of the seven periods at school the kids endure sitting in a classroom, and listening to a teacher talk in relation to a subject that they may not practice later in life. In addition to core subjects, students must obtain credit for a foreign language, physical education, communication class, and human services course.

Aside from art I am determined in my classroom studies as well. In order to maintain good grades I make sure I do all my homework and I take notes in class. When I find myself struggling I find out what steps I can take to help me understand my schoolwork. This year I

3rd and 4th grade students are placed in groups to deal with their weakness on STAR 360 and the WV Summative Test. The students are in groups working on text complexity, writing, and comprehension skills. Because of systematic SPL over the years, our students have successfully improved their accuracy scores at it pertains to reading and reading fluency. Gains in accuracy continue to improve because of proper placement and class