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Assignment Task Part 2

1. Examine the answers posted by your colleagues. Indicate correct answers and address incorrect ones. Reveal the intervention assessment you had selected, and explain why this is the best one for this scenario.

1. Be a critical friend and provide feedback to two of your colleagues on their scenarios in 100 words each. Was there any confusing language? What could have made the scenario clearer and provide needed information? Are there any errors that need to be addressed?

Colleagues Responses

Katheryn Gonzales 

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Assessments are important tools to help teachers develop interventions for students. Not only are assessments important when determining interventions for areas of cognitive support, but teachers can use assessments to determine behavioral interventions for students with challenging behaviors (Behavior Assessment, Plans, and Positive Supports, 2017).

Scenario:

Trayvon is a five-year-old kindergarten student. Trayvon is very energetic and enjoys attention from his teachers and peers. Trayvon likes to talk and play and is highly energetic. Trayvon’s family life is not stable. He lives off and on with his grandmother and other times with his mother. His dad is in jail and his mom has several different boyfriends. Trayvon is the oldest of three children and often talks about how he takes care of them. In the classroom, Trayvon’s behavior is attention seeking. He interrupts his teacher at least every three minutes during a lesson. Trayvon struggles working in small groups because he is either on the floor, talking over his friends, and interrupts the teacher multiple times. Trayvon has begun acting out to gain the teachers attention by throwing things at her while she teachers, turning over trash cans, and cutting his hair or clothes when working with scissors. Trayvon’s teacher is not sure what is causing his behaviors and needs an assessment to use to help her create an intervention to help support Trayvon. What assessment should she use?

 

Behavior Assessment, Plans, and Positive Supports | Center for Parent Information and Resources. (2017). Parentcenterhub.org. https://www.parentcenterhub.org/behavassess/

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Chukwunonyelum Eneje 

According to Banerjee & Luckner ( 2013), it states that early childhood educators are most effective when they gather and use assessment data to provide teaching and services to children with and without exceptionalities and their parents. Also, educators should use assessment and intervention to design and apply appropriate programs and service delivery to the children they work with within their setting (Banerjee & Luckner, 2013).

The scenario-

During the writing activity time in the school and other activities that involves writing. A child, Jaina, aged seven years, always writes big letters and words on her paper for every sentence, she wants to write. She finds it difficult to write a word or some words that need to be written in small letters into big letters. Also, mathematics was a struggle and so were writing and reading. When the educator gives her homework to do that is supposed to take her twenty minutes, she spends over two hours, especially in mathematics. The educators always notice that she will just sit there not understanding anything. She loves stories and telling stories but when she is told to read a book, it takes her many weeks or even months to read it because it is hard for her to focus on lines when she reads. And often she skips letters, words or even sentences. The child that was discussed in the scenario was diagnosed. And it was found she has a learning disability, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity disability (ADHD).

My question is, ‘What are the intervention strategies that could be used by the educators and other professionals to support her learning?’

 

 

 Reference

Banerjee, R., & Luckner, J. L. (2013). Assessment practices and training needs of early childhood professionals. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 34 (3), 231-248.https:/doi.org/10.1080/10901027.2013.816808.

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