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Richland Elementary School Analysis

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Now being at Richland Elementary School for about 8 weeks, I have a good sense of the people around me, the school itself, and myself in my role with the children. I do have to say that Mrs. Cambridge is outstanding with the children. She builds excellent rapport with them. I can recall a certain student was afraid of a certain movie being played one week, and he asked if he could go and sit with Mrs. Cambridge. This goes to show how much care and time Mrs. Cambridge puts into getting to know and building relationships with these students. It shows when a kid needs to be disciplined or talked to, and she is always good at handling the situation. The volunteers are also equally as good with the students. Many of the volunteers are soon to be …show more content…

He then proceeded to get extremely upset and even resorted to screaming and kicking the filing cabinet. He screamed for us to pick a different movie even when we offered to let him go and sit somewhere else, but no bargaining would have worked, so we all sat in silence. We had officially run out of ideas, and our indecisiveness became our technique. We turned around and just in silence until he stopped. Then one of the volunteers offered to sit down with him behind one of the computers and read a book with him. All was well again with the child. It was a moment of success and a return to peace just like that. As for my part in the incident, if I remember correctly he came to me and a volunteer next to me first. We tried to explain to him that we were keeping the movie up for everyone else to watch, but that he could go with Mrs. Cambridge if he wanted to. My part was just a small part in a group effort to help get the child’s emotions back under …show more content…

Many problems that come up with these children is behavioral. Whether it is reinforcing a good behavior or curbing a bad behavior, I would say this is certainly the most common thing that we deal with. We also deal with affective and cognitive issues as well. Many kids will come in feeling emotional under the weather or just emotional not right, we need to try and help where we can. Cognitive issues do come up from time to time. Kids may say something that they say that just does not sound right. Whether it is just talking negatively about other people or themselves, this happens frequently. You also have kids that just struggle with their feelings or their thoughts. Many of the volunteers at the school could identify the children that they have seen with these problems. Whether it is just working with them on their feelings teaching them to handle their emotions, or it is curbing some of the thoughts that they are expressing, the volunteers that I have seen have done a great job with the kids to help any of the children that may have something come

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