The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter Book Analysis

The Boy Who Would be a Helicopter Textbook Analysis

Student disabilities come in all shapes and sizes and is unique to each child. This is especially true with students who have social disabilities. Some students may find it hard to interact with students, some might be aggressive or emotional, some may not have personal space, and some may want space. Students with social disabilities often find it more challenging to gain the necessary skills to develop their social/behavioral communication skills, whether in a classroom setting or at home. Jason is a young student in the book The Boy Who Would be a Helicopter that isolates himself from the other classmates in a world of helicopters. Through the teacher’s classroom management, our teacher …show more content…
Her students actively incorporate stories within their playing time. The teacher decides to focus her class’ ability to communicate with each other through their stories, marking their growth in their ability to tell their story and see how they grow as their story develops. In this book, the teacher’s observation and involvement over a series of student stories whose development span over the course of most likely the year within the teacher’s classroom. While the stories may not seem to individually have a sole theme, the stories are connected by a boy named Jason. Jason struggles to interact with the class and shows signs that he might have a social/behavioral disorder through his reclusiveness. Instead of jumping to the thought of special educational services to help the student communicate and become involved, the teacher uses her already-in-motion classroom techniques of student storytellers and positive correction to help Jason feel comfortable interacting with his fellow students. As the book goes on, we can see multiple students as storytellers and see how their stories develop both negative and positive perspectives of Jason and his disability based on Jason’s response to his classmates. We are able to see how the class’ stories change their viewpoints of Jason as he comes more and more involved and successfully integrated within the