Understanding Behaviour for Classroom Practice: A Detailed Analysis

This essay delves into the complexities of classroom behaviour, using a case study of a child with autism to explore effective strategies for support and intervention. The discussion covers the challenges faced by children with autism, including communication gaps, emotional difficulties, and lack of interest in studies. The essay highlights the importance of effective communication, fostering positive behaviours, and building proactive relationships between educators, parents, and students. It emphasizes the need for teachers to act as guides, role models, and supportive figures, implementing principles such as functional communication, social instruction, and peer interaction. The essay concludes by stressing the importance of individualized attention, recognizing the unique needs of each child, and providing a supportive environment to improve their self-esteem and promote a positive approach to learning and development.

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Introduction
The essay will be focused on the reflection and different kinds of approaches to the
behavior that will be utilized to guide as well as support regarding the issues of a child. The
entire section will be proposed under the given scenario, and to support the situation a few
strategies, principles, policies and implementation will be introduced. The situation is based
on a child named Trenton who has been suffering from not being able to read or spell
appropriately. The teachers identified the problem, which was autism and the process of
taking care and dealing with the issues, was a tough job. Therefore, individual decisions were
taken in order to recover him from the present situation. Though his family remains a support
system through his entire struggle, he felt detached from that environment and thought of
establishing himself as a carpenter. Therefore, in order to deal with such issues some critical
strategies, principles, and practicing are required to handle the situations adequately. The next
section will be focusing on such areas so that the readers can understand and acknowledge
the issues and can stimulate their individual ideas and thoughts appropriately. The primary
objective is to provide an analysis of such challenging factors of a child in a classroom and
the different ways to execute the strategies efficiently.

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Discussion
The scenario is based on a child named Trenton, who used to feel annoyed in his
school. He was in the second year of primary school, where he was approved as a child who
was facing some critical problems regarding reading along with spelling. His parents asked
for help from his teachers, and they advised a specialist so that he can be treated from his
problem, which is termed as autism. Although his psychologist informed that he was not
suffering from any problem related to autism, he continued to struggle with issues in his
school. His parents shifted him to another school, but he was still facing some significant
difficulties with reading as well as spelling. They did deliver some funding for Trenton in
order to draw that support of the Teaching Aide. It was meant to establish the desired
development in his literacy system. Balanced progress was recognized but later on, they
shifted him to another school due to some funding issues along with the decreasing number
of the student. He is now in grade five and the problem has taken a massive shape, which
gave rise to disengagement as well as declining to work in his class. He is anxiously waiting
for a better environment where he will be able to discover his own abilities in the process of
learning. He is blessed with other talents like making the thing as well as tinkering in the shed
with his grandfather. Trenton has failed to develop any love for schooling and is quite eager
to leave so that he can pursue an apprenticeship and could establish as a carpenter like his
grandfather.
In the above scenario, many issues have been recognized, such as a gap in the field of
communication, adverse impact, disinhibited and impulsive behavior, and lack of interest in
studies. There are a set of strategies that can be utilized to dissolve the issues, and they are
effective communication, developing polite behavior as well as achievements, and
proactively establishing relationships.

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Firstly, children who are suffering from autism have to deal with a lot of problems
while managing their work, studies, and engaging themselves in the sense of communication.
They may have been recognizing but have failed to act accordingly. They usually feel
detached from their education, and they may face numerous issues such as anxiety, obsessive
compulsions, and depression, which may lower self-esteem. It can also be related to their
sensory problems including hearing problems, visual disturbances, and sound sensitivity
(Mucchetti, 2013). Therefore, it is necessary to engage themselves through effective
communication and a teacher’s responsibility is to provide immense guidance and support so
that they can recover from their issues and can follow their desired goal. The role of an
educator is quite challenging to understand and they should encourage the children to play as
well as social interaction. They fail to connect through verbal communication and it decreases
their self-esteem (Shane et al., 2015). Hence, when Trenton was having problems in reading
as well as spelling, their teachers tried to help him, but instead of shifting him to another
school, parents along with his teachers should have handled the problems more patiently. In
this way, things would have been different and due to lack of communication skills, a hatred
grew inside him for his school.
Secondly, as there is a significant gap in communication, and it affects a child’s
behavior, therefore, it is necessary to develop good practice along with his or her
achievements. The educators need to encourage them regarding their successes and should
appreciate their hard work by providing rewards (Mukherjee et al., 2014). They should
celebrate progress even if there has been an increase of one percent. Therefore, the teachers
should discuss more ways for their betterment, for example, when Trenton was improving in
his studies, and steady progress was recognized, but that just got vanished when he was
shifted to another school. Sometimes, an attachment and connection are required with
surroundings, and at that time, parents, along with the teachers, should not intend to change

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their school because they have already adjusted themselves with that environment. So it may
take time for them to adapt to other changes in their life. Thus, Trenton lost his interest in
studies and was anxious enough to become a carpenter like his grandfather. The teachers
should listen to their problems and respect their decisions and should show some concern
towards them so that they can gain confidence among themselves (Wing, 2013).
Thirdly, frustration, depression, along aggressive nature are quite obvious to set of
emotions that the children have to fight with it daily (Sparapani et al., 2016). Parents, as well
as teachers, should help them in developing healthy relationships with their fellow mates and
with them as well so that they can discuss their problems easily. They should proactively
approach these difficult situations and should aid those children by making them friends with
other fellow mates. They should involve themselves in their friend list and be cooperative
enough so that they can approach them at any point in time (Mukherjee et al., 2014). In the
above scenario, Trenton was quite reserved, and he was unable to mix up with the other
students in his school. He continued to struggle with his issues and it did not bring any notice
to his parents and they went on to shift him from one school to another school. Therefore, it
took a massive, and finally, he lost his interest in studies and was waiting for the end of his
schooling days.
Five principles of speech therapy can be proven to be successful enough for
classroom management for these autism students, and they are functional communication,
social instruction, targeting interaction among peer groups, training the adults in various
ways, and proper tuning in connection for improvement in other areas.
These principles can be proven to be effective when they have applied appropriately.
The educators need to plan every single aspect one by one like they need to connect with the
students because, at a certain point in time, students do lack in the process of communication

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and functional communication is one of the compelling aspects among those students
(Hussain et al., 2016). They need to confess about their problems freely that Trenton lacked
during his difficult stages when he was facing difficulties in reading and spelling. The peer
groups play a significant role in everyone’s life, so it is necessary for every child to make
friends as well as to engage themselves with various activities (Mason et al., 2014). This
process is one of the best therapies in which friends can also help each other to bring out the
positive impact among them. There are several ways to deal with social and environmental
issues, but only a few people can act in that way. The educators need to help those children
regarding social problems such as accepting their odd behavior is quite difficult for the
society. School is also a social institution where creating a learning environment seems quite
hard for them to cooperate adequately and appropriately. Training should be provided to all
the adults including parents and teachers so that they can handle them in their way and can
manage their work appropriately. A proper connection is required for developing in other
areas such as grammatical errors, issues in asking as well as answering questions and speech
errors.
There should be proper intervention as well as the implementation of techniques,
which should be processed to handle such students. There are essential elements that should
be considered in balancing these problems, such as providing proper feedback, monitoring
the further progression, clarifying the objectives, giving instructions, having the students
rephrase a lesson and a child’s reflection (Bambara et al., 2016). Relevant and decent
feedback is required so that the students could understand their positive points as well as
negative points (Watkins et al., 2015). They need a proper session of monitoring where the
teachers can track their further progression and should encourage them with rewards and
appreciation (Wing, 2013). The clarification of objectives is significant to justify their actions
as well as behavior so that they can understand their current situation and could improve

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themselves in different ways. They should provide instructions as well as should give those
children several tasks where they need to rephrase their individual work, which may help
them in acquiring better results. Finally coming to the last stage, a child’s reflection is the
ultimate goal of every educator and for their parents as well (Ryan et al., 2014). Thus, one
can understand their basic knowledge, interests, taste, and issues that can be solved and can
be improved.
Therefore, the role of a professional is quite essential because it will provide immense
help to the students, along with proper care. Teachers may take several functions in their
classroom, and they can be a guide, role model, father or mother, and friend (Chung et al.,
2015). They decide upon the responsibility to engage a healthy environment for the students
and should nurture students for their betterment. It is a tough job to deal with such students
who are facing such problems and should help them in every manner (Odom et al., 2013).

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Conclusion
Therefore concluding the essay, children should be looked after with immense care as
well as proper attention should be provided on their individual issues. Teachers, along with
their parents, should be cooperative enough so that children could share thoughts and
concerns and they can recover from their problems appropriately. Thus, it is required to
implement the above strategies as well as principles in order to deal with such issues as
anxiety, depression, and loneliness adequately. Parents should recognize such changes and
should engage them in different activities such as sports or creative things. Children should
know about their individual performance, and thus, there will be an increase in their self-
esteem and a positive approach will develop in their minds. Thus, an educator must help them
to improve their communication skills by providing space to them for healthy interaction,
slowing engaging the children for participating in various activities and simplifying their
language in order to provide a better understanding.

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