A Student's Struggle to Fit in a Generalized Classroom

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Assessment

Liam is a great example of a student struggling to fit in a generalized classroom, and do the same work that his peers are doing. He likes drawing and doing hands on activities like arts and crafts. He seems to struggle in music and mathematics. This is usually where he is either noncompliant or acts in bad behavior. He enjoys the attention of the teacher and usually does the right thing when his parents or teacher is looking. He does however have a hard time changing tasks, or doing things that he does not enjoy doing. This plan is to help increase good behaviors that Liam possessed why systematically lowering the bad ones. This will happen through a few interventions that involve both parents and teachers. An outside source will also be needed for a good assessment to occur. Our assessments cover a wide range of situations and come from multiple sources to measure multiple different traits in Liam. Hopefully the outcome of Liam’s intervention will be positive. If things worsen or do not get better there may be a chance that he may need to go on medication to maximize results. Luckily, Liam is only six years old and in kindergarten. Early prevention is a great start to overcoming problems in school settings before they affect more than just learning.

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Liam is at an age in his life where there could be side effects to intervening, but at the same time it is a critical age to get involved. There are benefits to not intervening; most of them involve the idea of Liam creating his own internal support structure. Since he is a shy kid, this would be difficult for him to overcome. There is also the benefit of him building satisfaction and pride because he was able to do it on his own. However, if you ...

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... a “yard sale” where people bring in stuff to sell for the Cohen cash. That way it combines creativity and a sense of accomplishment into this idea of a token economy. As the student becomes increasingly successful in response to the token economy, increasing appropriate behavior and decreasing inappropriate behavior, you can begin fading the token system. This could be the end of the school year.

With all these interventions in place I think that Liam will learn to become more compliant and will overcome his fear of talking to strangers. These interventions target the areas that Liam is struggling with and will help him on the way to improvement. But, we cannot say for sure if these interventions will help. But using the assessment tools we have put into place at the beginning of the semester we can assess improvement on all areas that we are trying to target.

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