Accommodations & Interventions

Background

In the Forest Hills School District, they follow the responsive classroom social curriculum.  As part of the daily activities, the class as a whole greets one another.  In my classroom, there was one child who would not do the greeting.   The child would talk in other group situations but not during the greeting.   From August to February, we tried many different interventions but nothing was successful.

I devised the following script to help the child overcome her shyness.  It worked well.  By the beginning of April, she was saying the greeting everyday.

In the classroom, we had a multiple handicapped child.  This child needed to have work modified for her.  During a unit on patterning, I noticed that the checklist that we used for the class did not measure how the special needs student was performing.   I created a modified checklist that gave us a clear picture of what she was capable of accomplishing with patterns.