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!) If the student is screaming out they are most likely craving attention. The teacher should look for one monument that the student is doing something right even if it is small and praise them for that behavior. The teacher should also ignore as much of the bad behavior as can be allowed in the classroom. The teacher should respond to bad behavior without using a negative response turn the response into something positive like "you are such a smart student I know that you know better".