Jeremiah’s development on his emotional and physical manners

Describe:

Through about two weeks observing, I relatively realized Jeremiah’s behaviors and

responds are quite possibility conform to Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

(ADHD)’s typical signs and symptoms. Such as he is the most difficult child to keep

still and quietly sit appropriately on the mat time. He talk too much rather than listen to

teachers’ introduction and order. He run around even climb constantly, and sometimes

he blurt out the answer before questions have been completed, and the teacher

encourage the student sit still and quite can answer. And also he has difficulty separating

emotional and logical responses to a problem. This symptom express when he want to

gain some toys but other children are playing with it, he has the difficult to explain his

appeal or expectation about he want to take a turn. Sometimes I observed he butt in on

the games when others children are playing, such as Kaiden and Ben were playing the

game on ipad, but Jeremiah were so eagerly want have the ipad, then I just jumped in

the middle of these two boys and took the ipad. He also have trouble with maintain his

concentration, and pay close attention to details. Such as he not interested in literacy

and number accounting game. He prefer outside activity such as bicycle and transport

big piece of wood.

Inform:

In order to help Jeremiah overcome his issue and promote his self-control, in addition

teach him how to manage his natural energy and motivation. I prepare to use

demonstrating, encouraging, praising, helping, and questioning, suggesting and so on

teaching techniques to help him and design a serious of activities for him to achieve his

learning outcome step by step. Of course during my observing, I found Jeremiah have

some good advantage, that can help him to achieve the teaching goals quite well. Such

as he is quite good at leadership, and full of positive energy, just sometimes he express

himself in the right way. Take an example, one time he want to offer his muscle to girls,

but his behavior shows he will make some trouble to the girls’ game, so the girls were

running away from him. I can awareness Jeremiah feel sad and grievance from his eyes.

Depend on all this phenomenon, I think this is should be a good teaching moment to

promote his self-confidence, communication skill, and belonging. Hence, I will set up

a small group of activity, and then invite Jeremiah to join with us. During the activity I

will demonstrate simple, easy, and interesting task for him such as we did the LEGO

creating a toy truck, and try to maintain his concentration. When he finished his LEGO

toy truck, I strongly praised him and encouraged him to share his experience to our

other tamariki. That will help him to build self-confidence.

Confront:

In my philosophy it states that I believe as teacher we should have to keep in mind that

children with all special needs are not people not of the same clan. The Chief Review

Officer of Education Review Office (ERO) Draham (2012) remind that, all children

should have the opportunity to participate in early childhood education, including

children with special needs. Not only do these children have the right to take part in

early childhood education, the education and care they receive should be inclusive. This

is link to Te Whāriki where a goals for Exploration: “they gain confidence in and control

of their bodies and emotional.” (Ministry of Education, 1996, p. 50). Barkley (2003)

pointed out that, when they are doing things they enjoy or hearing about the topics in

which they are interested, thay have no trouble focusing and staying on task. But when

the task is repetitive or boring, they quickly tune out. Hence, as a teacher, in order to

cultivate children’s concentration, understand their interested point, and catcher the

teachable moment is quite important. That is why I try to design simple, easy and

interesting task for Jeremiah.

Reconstruct:

I felt that when I did the observing and organized the activities for Jeremiah, good

relationship with this him is such great important. Especially for this special needs kids,

they more or less have some self-abasement emotion. In order to help them, first I

should let them trust me very well, and willing to listen to me. I strongly believe that

children in this young age any problem or issue is possible to be solve and overcome.

We just need to provide them as much as possible opportunity to change and give them

enough time to promote. What is the next change I am going to do is, I have not facilitate

enough learning environment and activities for Jeremiah. Especially I realized that he

is interested music and paly musical instrument. Such as last time when I played the

“Er Hu”, he brought the drum beside me and beat it with the rhythmic. I believe if I

have more time, I still have lots of future work can be done with Jeremiah.

Reference:

Barkley RA., et al. Driving related risks and outcomes of attention deficit hyperactivity

disorder in adolescents and young adults: a 3-to5 year follow up survey, Pediatrics,

August 2003; 92(2):212-218

Ministry of Education. (1996). Ministry of Education (1996) Te Whāriki: He Whāriki

Mātauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa: Early Childhood Curriculum.

Wellington: Learning Media.