The Importance of Providing Students With An Appropriate and Successful Educational Experience

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The Importance of Providing Students With An
Appropriate and Successful Educational Experience

• By Jennifer Felty
• EDUC 519

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Introduction

• Do all children enter first grade eager and ready
  to learn first grade concepts?

• Struggling students need to be provided with a
  successful and appropriate education as early as
  possible.

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Literature Review

• Students considered at-risk for behavior or
  learning difficulties may have trouble completing
  the following tasks successfully
• following directions
• working independently
• learning same skills as peers
• making social connections

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The current policy for identifying struggling
students with disabilities

• takes too long
• must display a severe discrepancy between ability
  and achievement
• children are not receiving help early enough
• in reading the intervention must be given prior
  to third grade
• chances for success decrease with time

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A look at two intervention programs Reading
Recovery and Early Steps

• thirty minutes of specialized instruction is
  given each day
• instruction begins with the reading of a familiar
  text
• time is devoted to word study
• practice writing dictated sentences
• end each day by reading a new book

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With so many children struggling with reading it
becomes obvious one approach will not work.

• teachers need to acquire an understanding of
  students reading processes
• phonemic awareness should begin very early
• phonics activities are crucial
• students need experiences with literature
• activities to display comprehension are a
  necessity

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A teachers intervention plan should include
certain principles.

• students must engage in reading on a daily basis
• students must participate in monitored reading
  activities
• students must be reading books at the appropriate
  level
• reading with fluency is a key component

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Teachers behaviors towards students can make a
difference in performance. Behaviors should
be supportive respectful encouraging The
idea of differentiation states students of the
same age differ in terms of learning
styles interests experiences readiness to
learn
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Context

• elementary school
• college introduced me to the one-third rule
• teaching placements throughout college allowed me
  to see the different needs of students
• student teaching and the realization of the
  demands placed on a teacher

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Getting hired as a first grade teacher

• first year teaching
• during second year my perspectives about
  students learning and my responsibilities as a
  teacher were forever changed
• waiting for Rickys arrival
• Rickys intense behavior the first week

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Strategies used in the classroom

• extra sight word practice
• plenty of hands-on activities
• behavior plan
• lots of individual attention
• extra writing instruction
• my physical presence was needed

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Learning about the students background will help
a teacher make better accommodations.

• using enjoyed techniques
• was able to remain in regular education
• received satisfactory grades in reading and math

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The end of the school year arrived.

• Ricky had a good first grade experience
• I learned a great deal about myself and my
  teaching
• since then I have had a number of students
  needing accommodation in the area of reading

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Struggling readers often need assistance with a
variety of concepts.
Phonics magnetic letters word boxes flip
books Comprehension story cubes story
maps Writing dictated sentences own stories
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Conclusion
Providing students with an appropriate
education as early as possible had many
benefits - can prevent the gap from getting
bigger - feelings of success vs. frustration -
significant progress can be made - starting
ground to discover more about the way a
student learns