My Supports

In my daily environment, I have gained the supports form various aspects. 

My first language is not English, so during my study, my husband, and the Walden university help me through my writing. I appreciate it a lot.

I am doing a full time job, so my teaching partner is very knowledgeable about the children and how to teach little ones. I have learnt many new things from her. For example, I knew that I should write something about children’s work, but I was not sure how to do it properly. She told me that I should focus on what the assignment is and what children have done to finish this task instead of writing the subjective comments. 

We have special needs teachers and Korean liaison in our school to help teachers communicate with the families when we have some special concerns about their children. Korean students are the large population in our school, and most of the parents cannot speak English. Korean teachers do a great job of translating for parents and the teachers to build a bridge between Korean community and the school. Without their help, communicating with the largest population in our school would be a disaster. I appreciate their help for me. 

The challenge that I imagine that I had now is I have a Down syndrom Swedish boy in the class who can be violent from time to time. I think I would like someone to give me some suggestions of how to deal with the children like him professionally, some advise about how to calm and explain to the children in the same class, and I might need a person to be with him, so we can make sure that he is on the task. It would be really challenge, as I did not have deal with such kind of children on my own before, and I did not have enough knowledge to solve this problem in reality. Fortunately, I have some colleges who are good at it, and the special needs teachers to help me at school if I come across with this situation.

Without those help in my life, the children will not be taken care carefully as I would not be able to meet his needs individually all the time. With the help from the professional colleges, the child can be taken care of and be treated respectfully to meet his full potential. The special needs child can be taken care of, the other children in the class can focus on their study better, and the teacher can have the partner to help and guide the child through the learning. However, sometimes, those children’s age is older than their mental age, we should allow those children to go to the lower grade level to learn and to have fun. In this situation it would make them feel better involved in the class.