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This document discusses identifying and supporting students with special educational needs (SEN) in the classroom. It provides an observation task that requires student teachers to identify two SEN students, note their specific needs and areas of focus in a table, and describe the support provided to help facilitate their learning. Reflection questions then ask about the school's inclusion policy for SEN students, accommodations made, use of assistive technology, teaching strategies, support from other staff, and whether SEN students should be included in mainstream classrooms or taught separately.

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Task 2

This document discusses identifying and supporting students with special educational needs (SEN) in the classroom. It provides an observation task that requires student teachers to identify two SEN students, note their specific needs and areas of focus in a table, and describe the support provided to help facilitate their learning. Reflection questions then ask about the school's inclusion policy for SEN students, accommodations made, use of assistive technology, teaching strategies, support from other staff, and whether SEN students should be included in mainstream classrooms or taught separately.

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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.

Anas 5 years Target: Daily Teacher Support with advice


old The teacher tries to from Learning Enhancement
let the student talk Teacher:
and be social with Involvement his with students
their friends during the lesson by asking a
because he is very question or read and write on
quiet and never talk the board.
with other students Encourage and support him to
in the class. write on the line because he
knows how to write and
understand when the teacher
asks or telling them to do any
activity, but he faced difficulty
to write on the line.
The teacher let him to sit with a
group of the students that they
talk more to try to let him to
talk with them and be more
social because he never talks
with their friends in the class.
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 the school request the report of his health from their parent, then
the student take a test to know his level to make it easier for the school to put it in
any grade with any level of students in order to learn the child in a way easier, and
also to make it easier for the teacher to know how to teach him.

2. What accommodations were made for the identified SEN students in the
classroom?
He is an excellent student he knows how to write and understand when the teacher
gives them an instruction he follows it smoothly, but the problem is he doesnt talk
with friends in the class because that their teacher let him sit with a group of the
student that they talk more to help him to talk.

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.
Yes, the teacher used the projector while she explains the lesson and she used the
picture and video more because he is a visual learner and that helps him to
understand the lesson faster because he never talks about the class. For example, the
teacher used the pictures to encourage him to answer the question by point the right
picture on the board to know if he understands or not and to motive him to be social
more.

4. What teaching strategies did your MST use with the identified SEN
students?
My MST let his site with a group of students with ordinary students who speak a lot
to encourage him to speak and learn how to be a collaborator with friends when they
do a group work, which is all of this group are working with each other and that
helps him to learn faster.
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.
No, at Al Ansar international school they dont have a special teacher for each case
of special need students because some of the cases of special needs the ordinary
teacher can treat and deal with them. Also, my MST, assistive teacher, and social
helper they help each other to teach the student with special need in easier and faster
way. Such as, the assistive teacher helps my MST to bring the book from the
shelves, and sit behind him to help him while he does the activities.

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


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

Yes, on my opinion the special need students the should let them to study and learn
with the ordinary students, because they will learn faster when they sit with them
and they will see how they are working and their behavior, and talking in the class
they will gain the benefit faster than they sit in the classroom that they have a same
special need causes.

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