Emotional and Behavioral Disorders is a classification for children under the special education umbrella. He or she may be afraid of school, or of trying new things within the classroom. EBD students can learn in the classroom with the right modifications and accommodations that allow a student to be successful during instructional time or test time.
For example, a teacher may give a student extended time to finish a test. A student may also receive flexible scheduling for classes or tests in order to finish a test or a project. Modifications occur when actual material or content of a class is changed to meet a student's needs. For instance, students may need to do fewer items in math and spelling for homework.
Your EBD students as well as some of your more focused students will most likely struggle if you impose a long list of complicated rules and demands. Try to keep your classroom guidelines broad and simple—no more than 3 to 5 main rules. Let students know about them on the first day of class, and post them in the classroom as well. An example list might be:. Along with simple and clear rules, there should be simple and clear teaching activities.
Some activity examples are:. By including clear activities in your classroom, your students will engage and interact with the lesson plan, ensuring that they learn alongside other students. While you will, at times, have to discipline children for improper behavior, remember that rewarding positive behavior is ultimately far more effective in the long run. So dive on in.
Come join us in the Special Educator Academy where we have a whole course that can get you organized and ready to go for the year! Thank you for all the great ideas. I love color coding my students as well.
When are the Sunday chats and Work basket Wednesdays. Workbasket Wednesday happens the first Wednesday of each month. The Sunday chats are on my Facebook page at PM eastern. Hope you can join us. I have been looking all over the internet for this question to be answered. I personally think you would be best to answer it. I would like to know if you think all special education classrooms should be set up the same ie using the TEACCH method when teaching students with cognitive disabilities not autism?
Some districts want all self contained special education classrooms set up this way and some districts only want the classrooms specific for students with autism set up this way. What is your opinion? It is not uncommon to find EBD classes in portables or in remote locations within the building. Historically such restrictive spaces were used as a dystopian daycare for some of our neediest students. Restrictive educational settings with no standardized approach towards student intervention have been troubling when considering the results of the poor services and outcomes for these students.
The need to provide intentionally designed spaces to provide evidenced-based interventions for students with EBD is paramount and could result in the greatest impact on school wide discipline and improve the life outcomes of some our neediest students. What Can We Do? Meeting the unique needs of students with EBD and simultaneously maintaining a safe and orderly school environment that is conducive to learning places a tremendous amount of stress on educators. Historically school design has been a one size fits all approach.
When designing spaces to serve children with EBD, before the first architectural design is drawn educators and architects need to work together to account for a safe and secure space for counseling and therapy, private meeting space for small group and individual interventions, safety exits for students and staff, restorative space, just to name a few.
Incorporating the above elements I worked with Architect Daniel Gero of Integrus Architecture in Seattle and generated the following design. The space below incorporates two classrooms providing all the elements needed for a successful EBD classroom. This means that educators can team students with 2 teachers and 4 support staff. Larger Design Elements A school psychologist should have access to a private space within the class or close to it to allow consistent communication among the education staff.
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