Iep Reflection

Improvement: Noah has improved in many areas since the beginning of the year: including large motor skills, fine motor skills, social interaction skills, and has developed emotionally. Like any five year old, Noah can catch a ball with both hands and can bounce and catch any size ball. His balance has improved and he can now skip, and walk on balance beams forward with ease. The only large motor improvement that he cannot do is skip rope; he cannot bring the rope forward in quick or slow motions and jump over it. He has mastered most large motor skills for the average five year old but can always improve. The average five years old’s fine motor skills include being able to button, zip, and tie shoes; create recognizable objects, structures,
When disciplining children, I didn’t know what to do. Now that I’ve had to discipline, I can handle making children behave. I’ve noticed that by commanding students, not asking, they are more likely to do what I want them to do. Anyway, now that I have more experience, I know that IEP kids should not be held to a higher or lower level of education just because of the IEP. That all students learn differently and will not always be on the same level of education. Now that I know how to discipline students and am more experienced, I’ve become more patient. It is easier for me to handle or to tolerate children, that are misbehaving at a grocery store or not doing what I want them or need them to do. All these should help me in the future as a parent and as a teacher or nurse. This program has come with hardships too, I was frustrated when, Daniel was saying “douche bastard” and I didn’t know how to make him stop. Saying that is a bad word and that that hurts people’s feelings didn’t work and he continued to keep saying it. Eventually I overcame that frustration, by telling him to say that is silly instead. Thankfully, he did start using that instead. A breakthrough, I faced this semester, was working with teachers who couldn’t discipline so I had to start being more strict, but, therefore, I became better at disciplining. My challenge this semester was, becoming more alert when working with the preschoolers. Of course, coffee became my wake up call and now I’m addicted to the stuff, but that’s ok; I became more alert thanks to