Alex was a happy, well-adjusted child until his parents separated which triggered a storm of changes in his life changing him from a well-adjusted child to a trouble maker. According to Mr. Williams, Alex’s teacher, Alex is the problem. In reality, Alex is a victim of the choices made by the adults in his life. He is reacting the best way he knows how to a situation forced upon. He didn’t choose for his Dad to have an affair, for his parents to separate, or to have his Mom go back to work fulltime and then get sick. It wasn’t his choice to discontinue music lessons, sports, family trips, or having friends over. For Alex, this has been a huge disruption over which he has no control. He has become apathetic and sullen. His aggressive …show more content…
I will discuss the conflict from the perspective of Alex and Mr. Williams. The two main characters in the conflict at school. Alex most likely doesn’t fully understand why his behavior is changing. He probably feels confused, frustrated, and angry about all the changes that have occurred in his life. He may blame himself for his father leaving or his mother becoming ill. Alex yells, “Sometimes I feel like throwing my chair at you,” not to be a threat to Mr. Williams, but to express his angry feelings about life. When Alex and his friend get into an argument there isn’t any physical violence.
Mr. Williams perspective is that Alex is an aggressive child who is being disruptive. Mr. Williams is already irritated because he is teaching an age level in which he is not comfortable. In California, most teachers are trained in either elementary or secondary education so the fact that his teacher is switching from a secondary grade level to an elementary grade level is unusual. He may not have been trained in teaching elementary age children. Mr. Williams believes that Alex’s problem should be solved through discipline rather than discovering what is going on in Alex’s life. I don’t agree with anything Mr. Williams does to handle the situation with Alex, except when he recommends Alex to the school psychologist. Hopefully the psychologist isn’t too over worked and can take the time to look at Alex from a biopsychosocial perspective and find him the help that he needs.
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But in the teacher’s point of view they should be helping the kids not just showing how they don’t like the student. Also showing that the student isn’t as intelligent as the rest. In the woodshop incident although he has to go through woods, why can’t he help him after school or just a little in class piece by piece. Using delayed gratification, if you complete your first woods project, I’ll teach you a little about metal, rather than him being unsafe practicing it at home. Coming from a students perspective, once I knew a teacher didn’t like me that gave no reason to try and help learn the way they wanted to. Although this boy seems determined to learn, the teachers aren’t helping him with what he knows and adjusting to what he has to learn to pass. Teachers and Students need to come together to create a common goal for each student, making the classroom a place that is comfortable but also making the students eager to
David’s first impression of his teacher was that she is mean and very sarcastic with her responses. At that point he knew he was in trouble. So, he figured he should come up with an answer very quickly, or he would be embarrassed from his teacher response. Now, it was David’s turn to speak. He did the best that he could with the limited vocabulary that he had previously learned before now. There were a few words mispronounced and he assigned the wrong gender to the floor and typewriter. The teacher over exaggerated reaction made him feel like it was the end of the world. David took a lot of verbal abuse from his teacher. His teacher continued to belittle everyone in the class, which made them all feel worthless. David said his teacher once called him out as a “lazy kfditinvfm.” David became very sensitive after the harsh comment his teacher made about him. David decided that he wanted to prove to her that he was more than just a loser. He spent a few hours every night doing his homework, giving more time and effort to his assignments. David was adamant about giving himself a name and, more of a positive demeanor. However, at times he would feel a bit nervous and afraid whenever she’s near.
The issues in this case study involve Melinda Smith, a veteran special education teacher, Derrick Yate, a student with behavioral disorder, Greg, the school principal, Barba Cole, the school social worker, Mrs. Yates, Derrick’s mom and Mr. Douglas, a general education teacher. Besides being a student with behavioral disorder, Derrick was low achieving and had developed a notorious reputation around school. According to Karen, one of the fifth-grade teachers, “Derrick has terrorized everyone”. Despites all the putdowns on Derrick, Mrs. Smith decides to take on the challenge to straighten his behavior.
In contrast, Rose’s relationship with his teacher in his vocational classes is unlike Rodriguez’s. Rose explains that his teachers could care less about teaching their students and instead of trying to talk to the students calmly, they use physical violence to control them. Richard states, “When the class drifted away from him, which was often, his voice would rise in paranoid accusations, and occasionally he would lose control and shake or smack us. He also states, “The physical education teacher routinely had us grab our ankles to receive his stinging paddle across our butts.” Rose’s relationship with his vocational teachers was not successful and had the effect on him of trying to be an “average” person.
After I submitted a write up about Evan, I was called to the office and Mrs. Thiam wanted to speak to me. She said, “I read your write up. Mrs. Pereira, you have to be more sympathetic to those kids. They are coming from the broken families. Everyday is a new day, and you have to start new.” Mrs. Thiam continued, “So, how do you and Ms. Vigliotti (who is Evan’s classroom teacher) work together with the perspective of PBIS?” I said, “I speak to her about her students every time when she has music.” Mrs. Thiam went, “No, that’s not what I’m talking about.” However, she did not give me any explanation about how to work together with the perspective of PBIS, and changed a subject. “I called Evan’s mother and left the message to suspend him for
She needs to come to terms with living in a world where she isn’t on top, where everyone looks up to her. I liked how when Alex wants to throw a party she will ask a richer friend if she can cook for them. Then she can throw party at their place. I’m sure her friends would let her throw a party at their place without cooking, but this situation allows everyone to obtain what they want and still save
The guidance counselor stated that the other three teacher could not attend the meeting however they provided a report about Shonquasia’s grades and behavior in each of their class. Ms. Witkers stated, that the other teaches reported that Shonquasia is not doing well in their class, and that she is often caught sleeping and that she has an aggressive attitude toward the teacher and her peers. MS. Witkers stated, that the other teacher reported that Shonquasia is not complete assignment and homework. RORC teacher reported that Shonquasia is fail his class because she refuse to wear her uniform. Ms. Witkers, recommended that Shonquasia should be encourage to participate in her class, and to be more respectful to other. Ms. Witkers suggested that consequences for behavior and accountability should be reinforced in the classroom and at home. Per mom Shonquasia does not like to be told what to do and that Shonquasia is capable of getting better grades, however she do not want to put in the work required to get better grades. Per mom Shonquasia likes to do her own thing and it is very difficult for her to punish Shonquasia for bad behavior. Per mom, since last CFT meeting Shonquasia s behavior at home and in school has not
For example, Alex goes to Tipton Rosemark Academy in Tipton County. She joined the golf team and the art club in order to interact with more people; However, she does not score as well as the other girls on the team, and has a different art style than the other art club members. This makes Alex feel self-conscious and she becomes more reclusive as a result, because she fears what her colleagues and teammates will say about her. The team and her schoolmates do not dislike Alex for these reasons as she assumes. Presuming she is conceited as a result of her withdrawn tendencies, they decide it is best to not include her. Moreover, the popular group sees her as a good target because of it. As a result, Alex typically gets stuck going out with her parents or invited to do things when she overhears the planning conversations. Being the type of person she is, Alex never said a word and has been dealing with this since the sixth grade. This affects Alex’s parents because they hurt for their child, wishing that it could be different for her. Alex is aware if she does not at least try to do something, she is not going to be involved or ever make more friends, and remains fully aware that the situation has an indefinite chance of continuing in the case she does not do anything about it; and thus, resolves to make a change.
Ms. Corbett stated that the child is a good student, she indicated that James experienced bullying last year in school. She indicated that she teaches the child to utilize adults to get help.
The issues in this case study involve Bob Parrish, an seventh-grade student with defiant behavior as a background; Rebecca Philips, a special education teacher with six years of experience; and Mr. Parrish, Bob’s dad. Besides Bob’s defiant behavior, he has moved schools multiple time due to his mother trying to escape Mr. Parrish and has a history of being placed in a self-contained classroom to receive academic instructions. Bob lives with his grandparents and his dad in an unstructured environment. Mr. Parrish is very inpatient and tries to correct Bob’s behavior through acts of violence.
conflict eventually led into a fight between the two of them while the “school” teen’s
When interviewing Mrs. F, she explained that a behavior concern for Richard is his inability to stay focus on a task for a long period of time. She mentioned, “He loves to walk around the class, especially when he sees a group of students talking. Richard will get up and try to join their conversation”. She expressed that his peers have difficulty understanding what he is saying because of his lack of speech. When asking her what she does when he becomes to wonder around the classroom, she mentioned that he just tells him to return to his seat. Richard is response positive to commands when they are given to him. He has not shown aggressive behavior when he does not get his way with Mrs. F. Mrs. F
Given the limited information and the lack of individual perspective from Alex, it is difficult to get a clear sense of any presenting concerns. Alex is saying that there are no concerns, and this may be the case as the marks were described as scars and Alex may have already been receiving support; however, this may be a way of deflecting or avoiding. Engaging Alex about their own experiences related to spirituality, microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem influences or ecological perspective assessment is key to the assessment. Another assessment goal is to highlight events that influenced Alex’s development as well as Alex’s Goodness of fit as explained by Green and Schriver (2016).
At first, introducing Peter to a “normal” classroom was difficult. He had behavior issues. He didn’t know to keep his hands to himself and he was very loud. The students, teachers, and other faculty members were worried about him being at the school. The other students didn’t know what to think of him. They didn’t know or understand why he was in their class. The teacher was scared too, because she wasn’t sure that she was going to be able to help him. Peter was violent and the teacher was worried that something was going to
Initial thoughts: Ms. Rollison needs to understand that students behave differently which will require a different way to approach their behavior. In most cases, when a student is acting out it is due to something stressful they are experiencing. A young student does not communicate their wants and needs well, this causes them to express their emotion is not the best manner. When children need are not met they will misbehave more frequently. Therefore, Ms. Rollison will need to understand and have patience with the student because there is always a reason behind why the student is misbehaving.