I have a great team in my classroom but sometimes we are not all on the same page when it comes to providing preventative or consequential interventions with our students. One person might talk too much to a student, giving attention to behaviors of concern and inadvertently increasing the behavior while another person may not do enough. Sometimes even the basics of student interactions are just not there. What can I do to make us a more cohesive team with providing our interventions?
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Instruction for Children with Special Needs
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I have a student in my class who is always behind schedule on projects and comes up with a million excuses as to why the work is not completed. Is there anything I can do to help her take responsibility and ownership of her learning?
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One of the students in my Learning Support class requires prompting and reassurance for every problem on his math worksheet. I want him to complete tasks more independently but he is constantly asking me for help or if his answer is correct. I can’t work with other students who also need my help with all of these interruptions. Do you have any suggestions?
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I’m a Middle School FACS (Family and Consumer Sciences) teacher and I have a student with special needs in my class of 20 general education students. She’s not disruptive, but she also doesn’t participate very much. How can I help her get more out of my cooking classes?
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I have a 3rd grade student in my Learning Support class who needs extra help with most academic subjects. She becomes very resistant when I try to work with her on a one-to-one basis. If I do get her to work with me, she only lasts a few minutes before she starts asking when we’ll be done or she refuses to work altogether. How can I get her to focus and work cooperatively?
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My student becomes overwhelmed when it comes time to practice spelling words (we typically write each word 5 times). She often refuses to do the task. If she does attempt to write the words, she may write the words too many or too few times or just get “stuck” on copying words correctly. How can I make this task more manageable and less overwhelming?