Another category that we talked about was emotional/behavioral disorders and those characteristics are inappropriate behaviors, difficulty reading social cues, adaptive behavior and needs rewards and consequences used systematically. I was told by the cooperating teacher that I was volunteering for that many of the children in her classroom had some characteristics of both learning disabilities and EBD. I also noticed this specific behaviors upon observation. I don’t think that these children should be identified with either of these two categories just yet since most of them were not even thirty months old yet. This particular place was different from the other Head Start facilities that I have been into and volunteered in before. The rooms did not have doors so you could hear the other children that were on the other side of the hallway which made some days more chaotic because of all the noise that was being made. This particular room that I was placed in did not have as many toys or materials to experiment with. The kids didn’t have very much structure as in having a circle time, or learning anything really. The teachers did not sing songs to the children if they were not a CD and the songs were not the basic ABC’s and such. The room had set rules and consequences for the children to follow and recognize. I would categorize this particular classroom as a semi supportive environment because yes it did have rules and behaviors that were expected, but it was not supportive in the area of learning since most of the day was free play. The instructional strategies that I saw when I was there were very few. The ones that I did see were art, sensory bins, and then free play. The example
Another category that we talked about was emotional/behavioral disorders and those characteristics are inappropriate behaviors, difficulty reading social cues, adaptive behavior and needs rewards and consequences used systematically. I was told by the cooperating teacher that I was volunteering for that many of the children in her classroom had some characteristics of both learning disabilities and EBD. I also noticed this specific behaviors upon observation. I don’t think that these children should be identified with either of these two categories just yet since most of them were not even thirty months old yet. This particular place was different from the other Head Start facilities that I have been into and volunteered in before. The rooms did not have doors so you could hear the other children that were on the other side of the hallway which made some days more chaotic because of all the noise that was being made. This particular room that I was placed in did not have as many toys or materials to experiment with. The kids didn’t have very much structure as in having a circle time, or learning anything really. The teachers did not sing songs to the children if they were not a CD and the songs were not the basic ABC’s and such. The room had set rules and consequences for the children to follow and recognize. I would categorize this particular classroom as a semi supportive environment because yes it did have rules and behaviors that were expected, but it was not supportive in the area of learning since most of the day was free play. The instructional strategies that I saw when I was there were very few. The ones that I did see were art, sensory bins, and then free play. The example