Special Education Classroom Observation

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On Wednesday, March 8th, I observed a mixed class of fifth and six graders at Astor’s Children’s Day Treatment at Bronx, New York. The children who attend this school were all classified as children with emotional disturbance.
There were eleven students in this class, 3 girls, and eight boys. Four of the students were Hispanic, six of them were African-American and one of them was Caucasian. One of the students was also an English Language Learners. Since they are all classified as children with an emotional disturbance they all have IEPs. The classroom’s educational team consisted of Ms. J. the special education teacher, and three paraprofessionals Ms. G, Mr. T. and Ms. P. The classroom is considerable small for the number of children in …show more content…

Their day started with breakfast in the classroom, there’s no cafeteria at this location. While they were eating breakfast they all started their “DoNow” activity. As the children were coming in Ms. J had to help a couple of them settle in. One of them didn’t want to be at school and was upset that one of the other educators had called home. She was very upset about it, didn’t want to eat or participate in class. Ms. J spoke to her about how it’s important for her to come to school and learn, but she wasn’t willing to let it go. Another child was upset because someone she didn’t like sat next to her in the bus. Ms. J had to help her get her jacket off to get ready for the day. She was so distraught about the incident, she was able to calm down when Ms. J asked her if she could give her a hug. The same girl was having a hard time coming up with an answer to the “DO Now” question. Ms. J. asked her if instead of writing the answer, she wanted to type it in the computer. She agreed and wrote an entire page as an answer. Two of the paraprofessionals in the classroom mainly work with specific children, and the other paraprofessional is in charge of collecting and checking homework and assisting Ms. J when needed. Many of them were having a hard time completing the “Do Now” activity. Ms. J. and the paraprofessionals went around helping the children complete the activity and the math sprint. One of the children kept saying the math sprint

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