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NIKOLETA JONASOVA Special education process in my classroom. images -…

- - - - Step 5. I implement discussed strategies into my lesson plan. I will continue mapping student's progress through different means.
        
        The school counselor said, that with her Creative Arts therapy the students who enter and have at least 12 -24 sessions had a positive academic improvement, as it is a safe space to express difficulties and even working through “an academic block” they might have.
        
        Strategies.In my experience, these strategies showed to be the most helpful and effective. I liked to use is the free-choice strategy. The conditional free-choices are for those students who could do whatever they liked after they had finished five tasks in a writing and reading lesson. These free choices could be anything including reading books, drawing pictures, or playing educational games. This strategy of conditional free-choices was viewed as an award to students who finished classwork earlier than others, and it would also help students to finish those tasks as quickly as they could in order to play freely
        
        Learning stations I had set up my stations around the classroom in groups of four desks. After 10 minutes the students would rotate to another group of four desks. At each center, there were different activities. I had bags labeled A-D at each desk. On the board, there were names that corresponded to the letter each child was in at the corresponding center
        
        I faced three major issues using learning stations in y classroom: accountability, grouping, and monitoring. First, in terms of accountability, I clearly explained the tasks for each station and set out their expectation that the students should take responsibility for their own learning. However, some students sometimes were lazy and not on task. Some boys would spend the first five minutes just choosing a book in the “independent reading” station and did not totally concentrate on reading at all. They did not take responsibility for their own learning as the teachers had expected of them. Second, a grouping of the students was a big issue, too. Some students were put in the same group, but they refused to read to one another. Some boys had arguments with other group members in the station, too. Third, I worked with students in different stations, so it was very difficult for me to monitor students’ performance in the stations they were not at.
        
        Goal setting. I like to give my students a chance to reflect and set their goals. I have students reflect on the past school year and list personal strengths and areas for improvement. Then I have them think about goals they would like to achieve by the end of the year, related to the English language. Then we brainstorm possible steps that they can take to reach that goal.
        
        While I believe this is an amazing strategy to use in the classroom, it can also create unnecessary stress and pressure on students and it can give a teacher a sense of failure. Another disadvantage is that this strategy can blind the teacher with other opportunities.
        
        Another strategy I like to use in my classroom is to give students different sets of reading comprehension activities. After my students read the book, I asked them several questions regarding the plot, characters, and setting. Then, they have to summarize the book and create their own questions they would like to ask their peers.
        
        As my students come to my class with low English Levels, sometimes a few new words in the text can cause problems in understanding the book they read. Therefore, they aren't able to reply to my questions or summarize what they just read about.
        
        Even though these activities should be taken as a reward for students, some of them are so demotivated that even this is not enough for them to work hard during the lessons.
      - This is where the teacher, school counselor, and learning coordinator will sit together and develop an IED- Individualized Education Plan. They might need a 5-minute brain-break or have a moment to calm them, it is beneficial to have a corner where they can regroup their thoughts. They can also have regular sessions with the school counselor to work through possible emotional difficulties inhibiting academic progress.
- - - - Double positive-negative strategy:
        If you decide to do your homework now, you decide to watch an episode of your favorite show. If you choose to not do your homework now you chose to do your work in your free time, and not watching your favorite show.