ESE Support System

For this ESE support system, the person I decided to interview is Professor Teresa Paton. Professor Paton is a Professor at Southeastern University that works with students in the Pathway Educational program on Campus for students with disabilities. At the beginning of the interview she asked who knew what ESE stood for? A few students raised their hands explaining that ESE is the abbreviation that stands for exceptional student education. During the interview, Professor Paton was asked a variety of questions that dealt with inquiry, fairness as well as support in a ESE program and the classroom. Professors Paton, way of answering any questions that she believed would’ve been asked. She used the word Collaboration creating an acronym, that gave a detailed description of
The two ways that she said are most effective in ESE classroom is visual and verbal communication. Prof. Paton example of using the two different types of communication was she expressed how she wanted me to stop messing with my hair. Using verbal communication, she simply stated that she would like for me to please stop messing with my hair. Prof. Paton also shared that not every student will response to that type of communication. Which prompt her to showing us how to use visual communication. Around her neck, she was wearing a keychain that had little square cards with different action words with a picture describing what the word meant. So, when asking me to stop messing with my hair, she simply flipped to a red card with a stop sign on it that had the word stop on it. By reading the card I knew that she wanted me to stop whatever I was doing without her even having to say anything other then please. By utilizing both verbal and visual communication in the classroom it helps students feel like not only do you as an educator care but it helps build a relationship between the student and