According to NAMI, mental illness can affect persons of any age, race, religion, or income.religion, or income of the person. Though there is no direct cause of the illness, it is treatable. According to IDEA in the 2003-2004 school year, more than 484,000 children and youth with emotional disturbance received services to address their individual needs related to emotional disturbance. We need to provide opportunities for students with emotional disabilities to assume class responsibilities and be more involved in classroom activities. Some students may be able to serve as peer tutors or assistants to help support appropriate behaviors from students with emotional …show more content…
Teachers can use activities involving working with their peers in groups to get them walking around the classroom and participating. Some great activities for students can have fun with are Think-Pair-Square-Share and Tour of Knowledge. Think-Pair-Square-Share involves your students being organized into pairs, working cooperatively to answer a question the teacher has posed them to, student pairs standing up and finding another pair to create a square, and pairs sharing their response in their square and adding new information to their original responses. This activity gives students an opportunity to “practice without penalty.” This activity could be very helpful when having a student with hyperactivity by them moving around will be very beneficial also The next and the last activity is Tour of knowledge which involves students organized into groups and each group is given a different colored marker.Groups rotating through stations observing a given assessment item stimuli the groups. Having 3 minutes at each station to record anything they know about the given stimuli on the provided chart paper. The groups then, placing a checkmark beside the information they agree with other groups and add more ideas, repeating steps #1-5: however, students now record a question that could be asked of the provided stimulus, and students solving assessment items associated to the given stimulus,