Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Inclusion: Burnout Ms. Heart is a Special Education Teacher in an upper elementary setting. She has a student that has an IEP; is off task over 90% of the time, antagonizes other students so that the teacher cannot hear, is capable but displays very little care or concern for work or completion, and tries to just put her head down and sleep daily during math. Several different strategies and interventions have been attempted to no avail. Ms. Heart is extremely frustrated knowing that her student is capable under the appropriate conditions but is faced with making it work in the general education classroom. How can she serve this very demanding student along with the other 5 students with IEP's that are on extremely different levels both socially and academically? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I agree with all of the posted solutions, but also Ms. Heart needs to consider the needs of the rest of the students in her class. She must not neglect their learning while struggling to help this particular student. A possible solution is the ignore strategy. The off task may be a cry for attention. Ms. Heart could possible meet with the student's parents to discuss home factors that could be attributing to her school behavior.