Identify physical supports as well as environmental modifications that may be needed to support Tamiya in the preschool classroom. You may use the environmental modification handout as a resource as well. Identify how the physical and/or environmental support would assist Tamiya in the classroom. (you should identify at least 3).
- However, the student schedule supposed to be more active and helpful, sticker schedule always can help the student to move on and to transitions to other part and other class.
- A safe environment, for a student with special need, most of the activities not easy to do, or it’s not as fast as the other students in the class. Which means bricking the activity into simple steps always helpful. Some student needs to have some special equipment’s such as special chairs or moving equipment, so the teacher should be aware of this needs to help the student to get on. All that supposed to be safe for the child in the classroom.
- Third, a healthy environment it's about the physical space of the area. Is it helpful to the student to interact with other students in a healthy way? Also, the Products and Materials should be Healthy for the student such as painting and coloring things or the materials that they use it in the activities all day.
Part 2: if you were the receiving teacher in this program, how would you be part of the transition team? What questions would you have for the transition team? How might you implement a phase-in process for the student as part of the transition? Identify the roles of the team members in transition (part C to part B services)
As a receiving teacher in the program, I should be aware of all the steps to make this transition go through. Also, to read and understand the special need to help this team. The question from me to the team are; who I can help this transition? What is my turn in this transition? What the special need that I should focus on it with the students?
To understand what the transition needs I should help the student to go through it especially with the IEP and the class activities.
The team members had a big role in the transition from part C to part B services; they should make sure from every step from the transition. They have to conform the family about each step or movement in the child transition. Also, the should to involve the parents and the class teacher in what is the next step and make them aware of the timeline for the student.
Part 3: what else could you do to support the transition of young children between programs, this can be part C to part B preschool, or preschool to kindergarten, or kindergarten to primary grades? (Choose only one)
- As a teacher, I can be a part of the transition, be aware of the steps of the transition. And also, I can get the parents know the improvement of their child. Moreover, setup the child need and the environment of the class to help this transition to go through. Especially to move the child from part C to part B, moving from an intervention part to another part in the educational line.
The early childhood in my country
Early childhood stage is the most important stage in the human life. Which is where the first beginnings of the character, which formed develop and show the character features in the future of a child's life, and that what is happening in this period of evaluation is difficult to visualize or modify it in the future of an individual's life. From this point the ministry of education tried to afford the best education to the children in the country.
Early childhood has been developed in Saudi Arabia because of the awareness of the society about the important of this current hood. However, to start in this development the programs should start with high-qualified staff to work in these areas, and should be well trained to deal with the students in currents events or needs. In addition to that, the programs should be met the standards of the ministry of education, and the program all the semester period be measured by the supervisors from the ministry. Also, to encourage the parents to involved their children in the early childhood programs and shows them the important of this age education. Also, shows the families the evidences of the improvement that the children had it.
From this point the ministry of education study many projects to improve the qualities of early childhood programs in the country. The ministry encourage the privet early childhood institute and centers to give the modern and newest method to this ages, and for the public centers they give some of the newest program to some centers to see the improvement in this centers first them they dissemination of experience in all the centers. One of the main objectives to provide learning opportunities for all has placed early childhood starting point in the construction of the shift from the traditional style exclusive to teach the child to read and write to build personal integrated child through quality programs based on the needs of the child and the creation suited to the characteristics of growth and activation of the family cycle experience educational attractive environment national and global process. So the ministry of education this days study how to improve current points in the early childhood program such as, add the Montessori curriculum in some schools and see the improvement in this schools to generalize this method in all the early childhood program.
The ministry of education tried to follow other countries in the interest of the early childhood programs. Baby steps to become giant strides, this is what the ministry of education in my country try to do and to be.