Eight issues in educating exceptional learners
December 21st, 2008
There are eight issues as the focus in educating exceptional learners: 1. Integrating people with disabilities into the larger society of the non disabled. 2. School integration 3. Participation and collaboration with the general education teachers and peers 4. Including the assessments of students with disabilities in the process of general education assessment. 5. Continual access to technology 6. Early intervention of those with disabilities. 7. Transition from school to independent adulthood, and 8. Disciplining students with disabilities.
February 13th, 2009 at 9:34 am
MY QUESTION IS ABOUT DISCIPLINING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.
HOW DO U DISCIPLINE A DISABLED CHILD THE SAME AS REGULAR KIDS OR IS THERE ANOTHER WAY TO GIVE THERE PUNISHMENT APPROPRIATELY.
February 13th, 2009 at 9:44 am
NEED ANSWER TO QUESTION #8. WHAT TYPE OF DISCIPLINE STRUCTURE DO U HAVE FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES?
February 26th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Human behavior in the classroom is very complex. Many times differences in upbringing and expectations with learning cause conflict in the classroom. Some of the major approaches to classroom management are from Glasser, Dreikur and Ginott.
Glasser’s approach is managing without correction. He feels strongly that students can control their behavior and choose whether to behave appropriately. They should be responsible to make successful choices. Teachers should help students learn to make better choices. Teachers should help students solve problems, avoid punishments and retribution by having students focus attention on their undesirable behavior and develop a plan with students for more productive behavior.
Dreikur’s approach is through democratic discipline. Dreikur believes that all humankind strive for recognition. This models core belief is that acting-out students make poor choices based on inappropriate notions of how to meet their basic need to be accepted. The act of poor behavior fulfills a need toward achieving social recognition. Teachers should focus on the behavior not the student. By doing this it helps the student to save face, it avoids the problem from escalating and models nonaggressive behavior.
The Ginott’s approach like Dreikurs maintains that the teacher has a significant impact on the students self esteem through the messages they send. Ginott’s congruent communication approach emphasizes the use of congruent communication between student and teacher. Teachers need to encourage students to behave appropriately by treating them appropriately. They should convey helpfulness and acceptance and again address the situation rather than the student’s character.