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Steps to Supporting Struggling Students by Phebe Sanglir - Coggle Diagram
Steps to Supporting Struggling Students
by Phebe Sanglir
Parent Involvement
Standardizing the system in school and at home
Provide extra support to the children at home (tuition, extra classes)
Be the additional morale/mental support
Signs of a struggling student
Academic
Looking at their grades, attention, tasks, assignments, and homework.
Are the kids managing the same as people of the same age, lower or higher?
Inability to understand verbal/written instructions.
Behavioral/Social
Sudden behavioral changes
Social awkwardness
Inability to play in a group/taking turns.
Physical
Inability to keep up in terms of physical health, any abnormality in postures.
Differentiated instruction
Provides students who are struggling with extra support. For example, other than verbal instructions, combined with written or visual instructions.
Provide them a bigger understanding of the situation.
Special Education Approach
Teachers will note down behavior that is out of the norm.
Note down the duration, severity and frequency.
First try to change the class setting/teaching to the kid
If failed, consult the parents for intervention. Children with special needs would encounter similar problems at home.
Also using this time to alert the parents that something is different about the kid in terms of the behavior (compared to peers or children at the same age).
After trying out the intervention with the parents and if it failed, then the teacher would refer the student to the counsellor.
School's Directive for Special Education
The counsellor would look at the academic history of the child, background and social setting to see if the behaviour happens in one class or every other class.
Recommendation would be given to the teacher if the child does not require special needs services.
Recommendation to make changes in the classroom setting, teaching style or lesson flow.
If its genuine special needs
a. We don’t do diagnosis
b. Provide the material which the development specialist will require
c. For the teachers to mark the behaviour
i. ADHD
ii. Depression
iii. Add in the others (or what we have on hand)
Referral out to specialist
a. To get a diagnosis (We have a list of specialists on hand).
b. Also, how the school can help to accommodate learning for the kid.
c. If there is a need to go to special needs school
For special needs school
a. No formal agreement with the special needs schools (Cannot enforce this to parents)
b. But we give suggestions.
c. We have an understanding with the special needs school (For more severe and more specialist support)
The school does not have the ability to modify academic programs for students with special needs. However, the school can accommodate the learning of the child.
Example for modification:
From learning how to count, plus, subtract, divide. Multiple, fractions….
To learning how money skills, purchasing etc.
Example for accommodation:
Still learn the math in school. Instead of finishing 10 questions in 1/2hr, it will become 45 mins- 1hr based on the child’s special needs. Still the child has to go through normal syllabus and normal academic program.