Case Study 23: Supporting Julian Cope with Parental Separation

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Case Study 23: Supporting Julian Cope with Parental Separation
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CASE STUDY 2
Case Study 23: Supporting Julian Cope with Parental Separation
Teacher Mingmei Wong is a kindergarten teacher dealing with children aged between
five and six years. She believes that getting close to the student would allow her to support their
social and educational development and reduce their misbehaviors. In the course of her
interactions with the learners, she realized “that Julian has been mostly playing by himself since
the beginning of the year, interacting only when necessary with other children playing with the
unit blocks in the block's corner and interacting very little with her” (Ozretich, 2010, p. 86).
Teacher Mingmei informs her assistant, Rhiannon, of the need to keep a close eye on Julian
using anecdotal observation.
According to Brown (2012), written reports accompanying anecdotal observations
highlight unusual or unique behavioral incidents of the individual student. Preparation of
anecdotal notes takes place during learning, and the information contained in the reports relates
to strange individual-student incidences that occur during a specified learning span. Teacher
Mingmei’s use of anecdotal observation shows that she is concerned with Julian's behavior, and
she wants to help him. To effectively support Julian, the teacher needed to record his behavioral
tendencies over some time to establish whether there was a pattern or it was a single episode. A
pattern would indicate a problem and call for a serious search for a solution. However, single
unrelated incidences would merely call for closer observation and support.
Julian exhibited a pattern of antisocial behavior such as playing alone and hitting his
peers who took his playthings, which called for a search for a solution. The teacher first dealt
with behavioral incidences as they arose. For Instance, in a situation where he took a block and
hit another learner who had taken away some blocks that he was using, the teacher intervened
immediately. Her first course of action was to stop the incident, and getting him to apologize to