Academic Goal for the Students
Early childhood education is a form of teaching that is offered to children at a very young age away from their families. It includes the normal care that is normally offered to the children at their respective homes. This education is normally offered as a prerequisite to the formal education system. Special education is on the other hand offered to students with identified special needs.
The results that have revealed an overall below average performance by students call for measures to help the students in improving their performance. This is because the foundation that they lay at this level of education in their lives will most likely affect their capacity to handle academics at higher levels.
My academic goal for the students is thus to improve their academic performance. My choice of goal is based on the increasingly competitive economies that require competence for career success. I thus believe that a better foundation for the students would be better intellectual capacity with respect to academics right from their young age.
Strategies for the Implementation of the Goal
My strategy for implementing my objectives over the children is based on an outline that I believe will yield the best result for the students. The first step that I will undertake with respect to attaining the objective will be the formulation of the goal. The first stage of formulation of the goal will be the explicit outlining of the desired goal in writing.
Following a deeper analysis of the capacity of the students, specific targets will be set for individual students with the aim of motivating them to higher performance. This step will be aimed at maintaining focus over the desired results. The outlining of the objective will be presented in positive terms in order of improving the grades of the students. This is because negative presentations are realized to demoralized individuals.
The goals that are going to be set will be feasible with respect to the capacity of the students. With this respect, a proper review of the students will be undertaken with the aim of estimating their range of performance capacity. Another important aspect of the formulation will be personalization of the objective.
The assumption that attainment of the set targets will be my achievement rather than the success of the students will be a motivation not only to improve my efforts in teaching but also to focus on each student so that the desired success may be achieved (Academic 1).
Specification of the goal will be made to clearly indicate the set objective that will also help in monitoring the success made with respect to the set goal. Such statement of specification will then be kept not only for the assessment of progress in the current year but also in the future so as to help in developing a strong academic basis for other students.
Though a review of the results and the students’ capacities will be considered in formulating the goal target, opinion held by other stake holders as well as personal instinct regarding what is best for the students will be considered before the final decision into implementing the goal is undertaken.
If at all the goal is implemented but no significant achievement is realized by the second month of the year, reconsideration will be made with respect to the set objectives and the mode of implementation of the goals. There will however be no alternative considerations of abolishing the goal.
Adoption of different approaches will be employed such as the involvement of all stake holders to ensure that the academic interest of the students is well preserved.
Students with Special needs
There are a number of disabilities that have been identified among students in the institution. Such disabilities range from medical factors such as retardation to seasonal medical complications such as allergies. There are also emotional, mental and physical disabilities that are realized.
All these disability have in particular ways and to varying degrees been causing challenges with respect to the academic environment of the student. The major challenge that I have encountered with the students is effect of these complications have on their capacity in class.
Due to the effects of their complications, not all students, they are either forced to be out of school or to lose concentration whenever they are affected by their conditions. This is particularly challenging because as a teacher, one must assume the primary role of taking care of these complications when they arise in school.
The challenge is even more complicated when there is no extra teacher available at the moment because a dual responsibility is then instituted, that of taking care of the complication and that of ensuring that the remaining group of students are neither distracted nor affected by the problem. The strategy that I have often developed to help me deal with the challenge has been to assign another teacher the class while I attend to the complication.
If there is no available teacher then I talk to the students and make them understand that I need to attend to the issue and assign a role leadership to one of them to help them control themselves as I am absorbed in the complication. The strategy of paying personal attention to the students with complications have helped them to understand that they are accepted in the society and also helped the other students to learn that their fellows who have complications require special attention.
The results have been that whenever such complications arise, students show concerns to the affected individual rather that running away. The strategy can thus be identified to have eliminated stigmatization that could have otherwise developed among the students over their colleagues who suffer from disabilities.
Such impact on the students was impacted by the level of care that the students saw me practicing and which they imitated. The care that was adopted by the students was one day realized when a student collapsed and one of the students was quick to assume the role of a teacher giving first aid though I was just few meters away.
Following the success of my approach to handling the student with special needs that has influenced other students to accept their colleagues with special needs, I do not wish to handle the student in any particular different way. The main reason why I would not adopt a different approach is the potential instability that might be induced on the students.
A change in approach may be interpreted by the students as change in how they are perceived. This may make them feel stigmatized against and even induced stigmatization from other students (Childcare 3).
Works Cited
Academic. “Setting and reaching academic goals”. Academic developments, n.d. Web.
Childcare. “Caring for the children with special needs”. Child Care Law, 2011. Web.