Problem:
Background
As you continue to discover new ways to make your early learning environment more inclusive, trauma-sensitive, and bring out the best in your young learners with exceptional needs, you continually explore new ways to grow your skills. You decide to create a video journal to reflect on your classroom and students. Your goal with your video journal is to select students in your class and identify the trends and triggers in behavior, consider possible stressors, analyze coping mechanisms, and improve your classroom instruction. This week you will record your first video journal entry. Need Assignment Help?
Directions:
Everly has been enrolled in your infant-toddler classroom for two months now. You have noticed that she finds it hard to focus throughout the day, pay attention, and transition during your daily routines and experiences. After addressing your concerns with her parents, Everly was evaluated and diagnosed as neurodivergent - a term used to describe how a child's brain processes information, how they learn, how they behave, and how it differs from what is considered typical.
In your three-minute video you decide to reflect on one routine and one experience that occurred this week in your early learning environment. Routines are regular, repeated events such as arrivals, departures, mealtimes, nap times, diapering/toileting, etc. Experiences are lesson plan activities or projects such as reading books, art, music and movement, blocks, outdoor play, etc. (If you do not currently work in an early learning environment, you can focus on a common routine and experience from the examples mentioned above.)
In order to help Everly achieve and progress more easily in your early learning environment, your first video journal reflection will include the following:
Introduction
You will start by reflecting on Everly's behavior in your early learning environment. Think about how neurodivergence manifests and looks in an early learning environment (Autism, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Dyslexia, anxiety, depression, etc.) and discuss how this might be impacting Everly's behavior.
Routines
Think about and describe one of your daily routines and explain what it looks like in your early learning environment (what you see and hear)
Think about common characteristics of Everly's diagnoses and explain how they may impact her ability to take the steps needed to complete the routine.
Experiences
Think about and describe one of your daily experiences and explain what it looks like in your early learning environment (what you see and hear).
Considering Everly's diagnoses, explain how it may impact her ability to successfully engage in the experience.
Reflection:
Think about what you believe Everly may need from you to better understand your expectations and successfully engage in daily routines and experience in your early learning environment.
These supports may include scaffolding strategies, interactions, adaptations (accommodations/modifications), specialized materials/equipment, or any other forms of help you believe Everly might benefit from while in your care.