First thing I would do is to understand the strengths and weakness in the child. Then I would develop a goal and break it down into several smaller objectives to help the child to take steps to reach the year long realistic goal.
I believe that interventions should be embedded within the daily activities and routines (cook, 2008). That means that no matter what we, as the teachers, want to teach we must focus on individual strengths and needs. Everyone has different ways of learning and we have different ways of teaching also. It is important to understand the child’s needs and how we can help the child to success with extra help.
When planning classroom activities it is important to think of the individual needs of each child and make sure you have addressed them with classroom activities and daily plan. Allowing the child to work on goals during classroom activities instead of being pulled to the side will give them better opportunities to learn from their peers and mainstream into the general education setting.
Motivation is the one of the keys to help children have the drive to learn, but they may have mental blockages so we have to use IEP method to break through to their minds. That way they can open their minds like we open the flood gate to learning.
Reference:
Cook, R.E., Klein, M.D. & Tessier, A. (2008). Adapting early childhood curricula for children with Special Needs (7th Ed). Upper Saddle River , NJ
I agree with you when you state that we need to be able to identify the child's strengths as well as weaknesses. We must understand and know the child in order to create lessons/activities for the child to learn. As teachers, we must be willing to go the extra mile and come up with additional activities if a child is not learning what we anticipate for them to learn.I also agree that interventions need to be embedded with the daily routine. Repitition is everything.
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