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Practicum 2b

Observation Task 2: Identifying Children with Special

Educational Needs (SEN)

Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Focus: Identifying types of learning support needed for SEN students

Objective: To encourage student teachers to support and included the
learning needs of identified SEN students in the classroom
Procedure: Identify two children who have SEN and complete table 2 to
highlight their needs and identify support that is offered which facilitates
their learning. If your class has no SEN students you will need to go to
a class that has SEN students in order to complete this task.

Table2: SEN Support for Students

Name Age IEP Area of Focus Type, range and frequency of
support provided / needed.

Target: the Daily Teacher Support

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without getting any
helps.
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Target: try to get Daily Teacher Support

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lesson.
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children repeat motivating her all the
with her. (2 time.
minutes)

Reflections on Observation Task 2: Identifying Children

with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Read the questions below and write your answers

1. What is the school policy for inclusion for SEN students in the
school?
- At the beginning they take Reports on his health, they the
child take a test. School give the parents permission their
child can have Special needs teacher in the classroom.
Treatment the child with special need well and smooth during
the lesson.

2. What accommodations were made for the identified SEN

students in the classroom?
- A change to how much time a child has to complete a task, or being allowed to take
breaks. Such as: Providing extra time on tests for a child with special needs. The
teacher patient while the child thinks to answer or solving a problem
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3. Was there any assistive technology, other equipment or

materials used with the identified SEN students? If yes,
please describe the equipment that was used and what it
was used for.
- At this school, they don't use technology for the students with special need. While I
observe, I saw the teacher use several strategies help her to teach the special need
students. Firstly, she keeps the instruction simple so they can understand. She used
simple words and pictures to let the special need students understand. Secondly,
make sure that they understand let them repeat the instruction, and at the end of
the day, the teacher ensure that the students know.

4. What teaching strategies did your MST use with the

identified SEN students?
- Provide a quiet and comfort safety environment for the student. Allow the child
enough time to process what the teacher taught him. The teacher may need to slow
down if she used to speak quickly. uses concrete materials, have experiments, and
charts to appoint instruction

5. Where there any other school staff that worked with the
identified SEN students? If yes, please explain their role and
what they did with the identified SEN student.
- The MST, assistive teacher and the social helper. Always the MST try to keep the
students with special need students behind her so she can saw if they need
something. The assistive teacher takes their teacher job during the lesson such as
getting their book from the bag, gave them the dictation if the class have dictation.
During the playground, she stands behind the students. The social helper between
times to time came to the classroom to observe the children and see how they are
doing and how they were developing during the time.

6. Do you think that SEN students should be included in the

classroom or taught in class specifically for SEN students?
Why / Why not?

- At present some cases have come into the classroom with regular students. The
society should keep supporting the students with special need students, which keep
them feel they are part of the community and they should do some things for the
society. The students with the special need can be able to do what the regular
students do but their need someone helps them and guides them, they can do it but
in different ways. However, some people believe that the students with the special
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need can include in the classroom because they interrupt, attention to other
students.