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March 22nd BIP update…

April 6, 2010 at 5:30 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

My case study child has come such a far way since August and I am so proud of him. However, his behavior is still a major problem. He does not act like the typical second grade as far as behavior is concerned. He is still working really hard in reaching his goals each day of going home one green-which is incorporated through our PBS system in the classroom.

I have noticed so many different things that have caught my attention over the past few months. My case study child is so off and on with behavior that it makes things difficult to know when he is doing well and when he is not. Right when I believe he is improving his behavior, he’ll have a major melt down, over nothing at all.  I find it interesting that he takes everything I say to heart. I will make a reminder TO THE WHOLE CLASS and my student will automatically shut down and think it is being directed at him, which is usually not even the case. He has started this new thing where he flips his own cards, and turns his own color to yellow or red without being asked. Then he will pout and cry or sit under a desk.  It is interesting because this does not always happen, and I am still working to figure out ways so this does not happen. He is a very smart child and everyone on our team is trying to find new ways for him to succeed even when he may become frustrated.  I have had a hard time tracking behavior of this child because it is so random and he really does not follow the same patterns as he was. He used to suck his thumb and slouch his shoulders a lot more than he is currently doing which is fine, however it is not that he doesn’t do these things anymore, it is that he does them more sporadically now. That is my update and this project has been very hard to conduct because he has his own behavior plans that are so different from what I was going to try and do, and so implementing more than one is just almost impossible and would be confusing and unfair to my case study child, but I am making the best of what I am able to work with! I am thankful for such a supportive staff of special educators at my school though! They are all amazing and work so well with my PLC that I don’t know what I would do without their constant advice and genuine support.