How a teacher can support students with special educational needs?
As tapiocas:
Anderlane Lima
Daniela Soprani
Ketlen da Silva
Monique Viana
Vilma Raquel
As teachers, we need to know our students, that’s why it's so important to recognize if we have special need students in the classroom. Any student who demonstrates a significant discrepancy, between academic achievement and intellectual abilities in one or more aspects of the learning process, can be a special need student, and give him or her the support to build his/her knowledge is a challenge for us . First of all, we need to know what kind of disability or special need the student has, after that we could give him/her the support, designing his/her individual study plan. The teachers should prepare the special material for those students in advance, give the students the chance to participate of the learning process in his or her way, motivating them to participate in workgroups, adapting the classroom environment in order to create a safe and welcoming environment, for the special need student and all the others, being creative in class, using music and voice inflection, make activities concise, clear and short, giving feedback as soon as possible, make every lesson as multi-sensory learning, allow the students to do some work orally, oral settings on assignments and tests, use a wide range of methods (pictures, drawings, examples, etc…) because students with learning disabilities might have difficulty in one area, while they might excel in another. Allow extra time for testing, and always encouragement.
Students with high ability are a challenge for teachers too, because they need special attention and need activities in higher level and interesting tasks. Students with high abilities, however, may have some affective needs resulting from their capacity.
It’s important to emphasize that parents of special needs can also help implementing this principles, keeping a constant contact with the teachers, accompanying the development of child’s learning teaching process. We can’t forget that teachers, school and family should work in constant contact with the specialists, especially because they can guide us, how we could help the students find their way to learn and become part of the society. Finally, let’s remember that each student is unique in his or her way to learn, having disability, special need or not. In this way, we teachers need to develop a proper way to deal and help the learning process of all the students, respecting them as an individuals but members of the society.
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