Severe Emotional Disorder Case Study

1. My brief experience working with what Jeffco calls Severe Emotional Disorder (SED), I found a lot of the students are good kids with no role models. The only thing this kids learn from their parents is violence, how to stand their ground and a less than preferred vocabulary. While some students have great parents and suffer from a psychological disorder, I find the general case less than great patenting. These kids are incredibly anger and often direct it where they can, to include teachers and other students who mean them no harm. Teaching these kids involves being a role model and making these children happy while not letting them get out of control. Hardest part I found would was giving positive attention to the kid who just tried to punch you or have been making your day miserable. Even though they swear like a sailor about to retire, you have to remember they are children and need encouragement, more so than non-SED students because possibly the …show more content…
Mrs. Fitzgerald seems to teach using the color-blind method of teaching, which prevents her from looking at these children as individual with their own ethic and cultural backgrounds. Basal readers are even criticized in the New York times as being boring, saying an overly simply story with a couple questions at the end does not encourage children to learn. Early Basal Readers are great if you are a white protestant, but are do not incorporate much diversity or heroes that others can relate too. The lack of multicultural education in this classroom does not actually seem to be the problem but, a symptom of a teacher that has become complacent and stuck in her ways. This issue is made worse by the fact she is sheltered from criticism, due her relationship to the boss. () I also believe the school and school district might have failed in not requiring the proper professional development needed to ensure every teacher has the right tools to provide the best possible learning environment for all its