Assessing+ED+Students+and+the+Teachers+Who+Teach+Them

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This is a article aimed at helping teachers assess themselves before they even begin trying to assess Emotionally Disturbed students. The article provides very critical information and tactics teachers can use to learn about themselves first in order to know how to work with ED-identified students and help create a better learning environment. By doing so, teachers are much better able to learn more about the students' disabilities and diagnose any further learning disadvantages and reassess prior classifications of these students. The article emphasizes taking care of the teacher of ED students before the teacher can successfully and efficiently meet all the needs of such students. The article touches on teacher self-analysis, colleague collaboration, and stress management.

Some good strategies I could further develop as a result of reading this information would be to create assignments which help the teacher learn about ED students with information that goes beyond what can be found in their CUMs. The goal is to learn about ED students' personalities and characters which help teachers assess what potential triggers exist between the teacher and student's negative personalities. Another strategy would be to hold student-teacher lunch time support therapy breaks where students and teachers chat with the objective of getting to know one another. Once a positive relationship is built between ED students and teachers, a student can be reassessed from a new perspective and possibly re-diagnosed as far as their learning abilities is concerned.