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My Supports
Emotional support from family and friends – including boss
Practical support by creating to-do lists
Physical support, I will ask for help and receiving it is another story, I don’t always receive help.
I can currently identify a challenge that I’m facing at the moment, well, have been facing since April. As a teacher I have shared my concerns with my boss/supervisor about a child’s aggressive behavior within the classroom. I would share what the child was doing towards the other children and at times towards the teachers. I wrote up a contacts sheet that describes the child’s challenging behavior and the techniques used by the teachers to help support the child. The boss/supervisor looks it over and signs it and makes a copy for our Mental Health Consultant. Then I speak with the parents about having the Mental Health Consultant do an observation on the child. The parents sign a form and the MHC sets up a time to conduct the observation. After the observation, recommends suggestions for the teachers to try with the child to support this challenging time. As the teachers continue to work with this child, they continue to share their concerns with the supervisor, but nothing changes. Then the supervisor decides to set up a support conference with the parents to brainstorm a support system for the child. The parents only are encouraged to set up an appointment with Early Intervention for an assessment. Still there are no consequences regarding the child’s actions within the classroom and the teachers continue to support the child the best way they can. The child ends up being sick during the time of his assessment so now it’s back to square one.
I would want support emotionally to know that everything I have been doing to help this child, is truly helping one small step at a time. I want my feelings to be considered and respected, not pushed to the side and feel offended been my supervisor and administrators.
I would want support practically, to know what new techniques, and current ones are working for the child and with his teachers to help him overcome the challenges within his life at the moment. I want to be shown and given new ways to support the child and the family with this challenge happening, supposedly just at school. I want to be offered to take new trainings that support challenging behaviors and how to support them in the classroom environment.
The factors that support me are speaking with my team members at my frustration level regarding the handling from the supervisor and administrators with the concerns from the teachers to get this child the help he needs to control his aggressive behavior. By sharing my feelings with my team members it helps myself release the frustration and tense from the given situation and challenge within the classroom. Hearing their shared feelings and concerns, tell me that they understand the feelings and emotions of the given situation. They feel the same way regarding the lack of support from our supervisor and administrators with the struggles and challenges us teachers are dealing with. When sharing and getting to brainstorm techniques and new ways to approach the challenge with new eyes to help support this challenge the best way we can, with the challenges of change happening within the child’s family environment. As a professional, I look at different resources to help find new techniques and ways to help support the child to decrease the level of his aggressive behavior in the classroom towards the other children. I try my best to read articles, about the topic at hand, regarding the challenges the child is facing. I do my best finding articles about aggressive behaviors, self-regulation, and finding new ways to show him how to relax and get control over his body. Sometimes with all the research and articles, the teaching team, works together to try new ways of supporting the child regarding the results from the research on various topics to support this child with his aggressive behavior. I even speak with some friends and family members regarding the challenges I face at work and the lack of support to get this child the help he needs to be successful. It frustrates me that the lack of support in a professional manner do want to support the efforts of a teacher and their team to help the child overcome the struggles and challenge within his life at the moment. It’s just nice to know that I have others, outside of the situation to take the time to listen, with an open heart the concerns teachers have about a child going through a rough time and needs all the help and support he can get.
Having supports within your life helps ease the roller-coaster of emotions going on within that person regarding the situation at hand. It makes the situation and challenge helpful when others are there offering support, guidance, and respect to make every technique work to the best of their abilities for the child. It makes a day with the child different every day, always guessing what sort of mood the child will be in to pull out the techniques that will work regarding the emotional stability of the child. Without these supports I would be going to a professional counselor or therapist to express my feelings and emotions of the situation and challenge I’m facing currently in my life. I don’t think I could continue to with helping the child if I wasn’t receiving any help or guidance professionally to encourage this child to discover ways on his own to control and relax his body, self-regulation, and understand his own emotions within side of him. I feel that everyone deserves to have a support system, big or small, regarding life and the struggles any one person faces at work, with a family, school, and other situations. A support system will help bring everyone together and be successful.
Practical support by creating to-do lists
Physical support, I will ask for help and receiving it is another story, I don’t always receive help.
I can currently identify a challenge that I’m facing at the moment, well, have been facing since April. As a teacher I have shared my concerns with my boss/supervisor about a child’s aggressive behavior within the classroom. I would share what the child was doing towards the other children and at times towards the teachers. I wrote up a contacts sheet that describes the child’s challenging behavior and the techniques used by the teachers to help support the child. The boss/supervisor looks it over and signs it and makes a copy for our Mental Health Consultant. Then I speak with the parents about having the Mental Health Consultant do an observation on the child. The parents sign a form and the MHC sets up a time to conduct the observation. After the observation, recommends suggestions for the teachers to try with the child to support this challenging time. As the teachers continue to work with this child, they continue to share their concerns with the supervisor, but nothing changes. Then the supervisor decides to set up a support conference with the parents to brainstorm a support system for the child. The parents only are encouraged to set up an appointment with Early Intervention for an assessment. Still there are no consequences regarding the child’s actions within the classroom and the teachers continue to support the child the best way they can. The child ends up being sick during the time of his assessment so now it’s back to square one.
I would want support emotionally to know that everything I have been doing to help this child, is truly helping one small step at a time. I want my feelings to be considered and respected, not pushed to the side and feel offended been my supervisor and administrators.
I would want support practically, to know what new techniques, and current ones are working for the child and with his teachers to help him overcome the challenges within his life at the moment. I want to be shown and given new ways to support the child and the family with this challenge happening, supposedly just at school. I want to be offered to take new trainings that support challenging behaviors and how to support them in the classroom environment.
The factors that support me are speaking with my team members at my frustration level regarding the handling from the supervisor and administrators with the concerns from the teachers to get this child the help he needs to control his aggressive behavior. By sharing my feelings with my team members it helps myself release the frustration and tense from the given situation and challenge within the classroom. Hearing their shared feelings and concerns, tell me that they understand the feelings and emotions of the given situation. They feel the same way regarding the lack of support from our supervisor and administrators with the struggles and challenges us teachers are dealing with. When sharing and getting to brainstorm techniques and new ways to approach the challenge with new eyes to help support this challenge the best way we can, with the challenges of change happening within the child’s family environment. As a professional, I look at different resources to help find new techniques and ways to help support the child to decrease the level of his aggressive behavior in the classroom towards the other children. I try my best to read articles, about the topic at hand, regarding the challenges the child is facing. I do my best finding articles about aggressive behaviors, self-regulation, and finding new ways to show him how to relax and get control over his body. Sometimes with all the research and articles, the teaching team, works together to try new ways of supporting the child regarding the results from the research on various topics to support this child with his aggressive behavior. I even speak with some friends and family members regarding the challenges I face at work and the lack of support to get this child the help he needs to be successful. It frustrates me that the lack of support in a professional manner do want to support the efforts of a teacher and their team to help the child overcome the struggles and challenge within his life at the moment. It’s just nice to know that I have others, outside of the situation to take the time to listen, with an open heart the concerns teachers have about a child going through a rough time and needs all the help and support he can get.
Having supports within your life helps ease the roller-coaster of emotions going on within that person regarding the situation at hand. It makes the situation and challenge helpful when others are there offering support, guidance, and respect to make every technique work to the best of their abilities for the child. It makes a day with the child different every day, always guessing what sort of mood the child will be in to pull out the techniques that will work regarding the emotional stability of the child. Without these supports I would be going to a professional counselor or therapist to express my feelings and emotions of the situation and challenge I’m facing currently in my life. I don’t think I could continue to with helping the child if I wasn’t receiving any help or guidance professionally to encourage this child to discover ways on his own to control and relax his body, self-regulation, and understand his own emotions within side of him. I feel that everyone deserves to have a support system, big or small, regarding life and the struggles any one person faces at work, with a family, school, and other situations. A support system will help bring everyone together and be successful.