Meeting With The Simi Valley Unified School District

I was sent to observe Mrs. Cannon 's 1st grade class after she contacted Dr. Jekyll at Athens State. Upon entering Mrs. Cannon 's classroom I noticed that her room is colorful and the student 's work is displayed all around her room. The desks are in rows, there is a Math Center, and there is a rug as the reading area.

The Special Education team for learning disabilities will test the student. These students have shown signs of continuous problems with interventions in place. Psychologist, psychiatrist, and any other testing will be conducted with parental consent have evaluated the student. Parents will be mandated to attend all assessment evaluations and the team shall review the findings for referral back to tier two or upgrade student to tier four for special educational services based on educational or problematic behaviors.

The special educational needs (SEN) team are supported by a very active group who make sure that they provide a range of activities to meet the needs of our ever growing community of special schools, as well as colleagues in mainstream primary and secondary schools. Their aim is to work together to ensure good practice to promote effective approaches to enhance the students learning with Special educational needs.

I attended the IPS school board meeting on February 23, 2016 at 6pm. The meeting took place at 120 East Walnut Street. There was about 60-70 people there. There were people who was helping to conduct the meeting. They also had tables set up close to the front to where people were sitting. They also had rows for anyone who wanted to listen to the meeting. Police officers were also by the door. There were a variety of topics discussed last night. The topics that was discussed were bus tracking, increasing teacher’s salary, treatment of black kids and segregation in education, shortage of teachers and kids acting out, a group of parent’s helping improve reading scores, and a new system called naviance.

The school board meeting for the schools of Palm Beach County was overall an organized event. The meeting opened with different individuals simply sharing about some different events in the schools. The first speaking was a member of the board who spoke about HBCU and all of the potential and positives the school had. She was very passionate about her subject. The next speaker was a woman from the school who attended a school even about 9/11 where the boy scouts read all of the names of the victims in the cemetery and placing medal all of the graves. Mrs. Brill was very excited about the event and expressed her proudness and hope that the event will become a tradition. All of these speakers will well prepared and you could see their passion on the subjects they spoke to the board about. The next section of the meeting was the proclamations and presentations. The first proclamation was again HBCU. The proclamation said that September of 2015 would be historical black history month. This movement was followed by one that asked the board to make September 15th to October 15th 2015 hispanic heritage month. This movement came with a video about all the statistics about hispanic children in U.S. schools and an award given to the hispanic teacher of the year. In the next movement the board was asked to name September 17th constitution day and September 21st through the 25th celebrate freedom week. Following this the board was asked to make September National PTA membership month,

Ms. Nelson’s classroom was arranged in a way that allowed students move without disruption. The desks where in a u-shape. She had a carpet in front of the smart board where the students appeared to have assigned spots. A computer station was set up in the back of the classroom where Ms. Nelson was able to easily monitor her student’s activity. Her room also had colorful posters with content related material and clear

The Rancho Solano Preparatory School will make new changes by developing satisfaction to the stakeholders. Stakeholders are “the persons, groups, and institutions directly affected by an organization’s performance” (Schermerhorn, 2011, p. 56). Also, Stakeholders are called task environment which can be distinctive and change based on the in the organizations which are the customers, suppliers, competitors and regulators (Schermerhorn,2011). The stakeholders of RSPS are the owners who are the Merita’s International Family of Schools, executive committee like Dr. Audrey Mernard who was appointed the head of the school. Also, the stakeholders can consist of the employees, students, parents, and competitors. The proposed change of Human Resource

IATs require collaborative problem solving by a team of educational experts, including general and special education staff, to serve students who are not being successful in the general curriculum. Within this collaboration, “the team shares the belief that all children can learn and focuses on solving the problem, not making excuses for the problem” (Burns & Vanderwood, 2005, para 7). Furthermore, the team uses data to monitor interventions. When collaborative problem solving is used in IAT, there is a measurable reduction in referral rates and improvements in individual student progress as a result of interventions (Burns & Vanderwood, 2005). Collaborative Problem Solving requires a team to follow the four steps of problem solving to define a problem and its current status, establish goals and with an intervention plan, implement the intervention plan thoroughly, and monitor progress frequently to evaluate results (Reschly & Wood,

There are many members to an evaluation team and they would typically be on the child’s IEP team as well. Member could include all or some of the following people:

The role of a School Psychologist involves many duties. From consultation to creating prevention programs, a School Psychologist wears many hats. From the information, I have learned from the classes I’ve taken so far, talking with professors and School Psychologists in the field, attending conferences/lectures on school psychology, I can say that I am most looking forward to helping all children within the education system, not just those who receive special education services. I know that there will be intense days, when the needs of so many children pile up, with timelines approaching, reports to write, children to evaluate, behavior plans to fine-tune, etc.

There are many individuals involved in the process of assessing and individual as well as many different assessments in a variety of settings. Some of the individuals that can be involved in the assessment and diagnosis include: pediatrician, child and adolescent psychiatrist, educational psychologist, speech and language therapist, specialist teaching service, class teacher, social worker, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists (Worth,

Related services are services given by a support personal in order that a student may reach their fullest potential. This support could help a student in the area of writing speaking or moving, the special needs that students encounter requires a wide variety of services to accommodate them. Related service should be bound to a student’s IGP goals and designed to help improve the student’s education success in the classroom. Once the team decides that related services would be beneficial for the students several issues must be resolved such as: how the service will be delivered, how often the students will receive the service, how long will the duration of the service last, where the child will receive the services, and when the service will begin. The team must decides exactly how many days the student will receive services how long will each session last, and who will implement the service. A school psychologist provide services for a student who may be having issues that are involved in a school setting such as organization with good study habits, and interaction with other school personal or students. A social worker is mainly involved with a student’s personal life and how it affects their performance in school. A

Upon walking into the classroom, I noticed the classroom setup. There was an art area right next to the door with a sink. On the same wall, there was little cubbies for each student with their names on it. Towards the middle of the room there was a big bright carpet facing the smart board. Also, there were two computers in the room with bean bag chairs. I found it fascinating that the students had five iPads for the classroom. Towards the window is her desk where students can sit around her for reading time. This reading center allows her to have one-on-one time with each student to evaluate their reading skills. The walls were completely covered with colors and pictures all labeled. As it approaches 8:30am, the students begin to enter the classroom. They all individually say “Good Morning” to their teacher then go straight to their cubbies dropping of their things. She had 22 students in her classroom, 11 boys and 11 girls.

I observed 50 hours at Rossiter Elementary School. I was in a first grade classroom taught by Ms. Hayes. The classroom had 18 students of all adacdemic and behavioral levels.

The room was arranged in a way that made it easy for the teacher and students to walk around the room without tripping or having to squeeze through small spaces. There is one door which is located at the front of the classroom. Desks had nametags taped to the top of them and were organized in groups of five on the right side of the room. The teachers desk and filing cabinet were in the back of the room in the right corner. There were two extra tables that were used for small group work. A set of plastic drawers were placed beside each desk so that the students could store their school supplies that stays at school. These tables were located in the front left corner of the room and the back center of the room. Another feature of the room was the reading area in the back of the room. This reading area was on the left side of the room and was made up of a colorful rug, three small bookshelves, and a