New link: https://padlet.com/bkatrina39/tpdlzs94enwz

 

Katrina, the link uploaded on the iCollege was not working. Please update the link so that Dr. Ari and I can access from the iCollege. Also, you may need to re-organize your padlet. You can visit other classmates’ padlets and get an idea how to organize your threads. Make only a one thread for each STEP so that it looks clean and is easy to follow. Also, PLEASE DO NOT ERASE my comments on your padlet. It is important to see how you develop your steps from the draft to the final version and see how you reflect comments on your final draft. 

 

Your STEP3 requires a picture of the problem showing in a simplified form the main variables, parameters, elements and how these relate to each other. Do not forget to contain this for your final draft. Second, please check your spellings and punctuations throughout the posting. I noticed some minor mechanical errors. You chose ‘education’ as the most important disciplines of yours. Be more specific here. What education you are mentioning? Education psychology? Or Family and Community literacy education? We will see different disciplines in this class and I suggest you to choose your disciplines from what we have or will learn in this class. Also, you will need more explanations on how your chosen disciplines are relevant to your problem. Lastly, your draft did not contain any insights from your site visit. Please include insights you have from your interview and observation. Provide some information about the site as well. 

1.1 EBD Disorders can co-exist with other disorders. 

This category may include children or youth with other disorders such as anxiety disorder or affective disorders. One thing can trigger another, it’s a dominion affect. EBD can contribute to a lot of things. A child’s environment, in a school setting, it’s a response to their stressors.

1.2 The scope of the study is to find helpful strategies to help students learn in a more inclusive environment rather than in a hostel for example: focusing on their strengths, fostering resilience, and facilitating positive schooling for the students.

1.3. One of the first steps to helping students with this disorder is providing them with a solid foundation, giving them stability, praise, and motivating them in their accomplishments. Children need to know that someone cares and will be there to guide them through.

1.4 EBD is a concern in our young children today because it affects their learning skills. Children need to be in an environment where they can feel safe and loved, also children need rules and instructions, keeping things to a minimum, start out slow with them, involve them in the process, meet them half way, and motivate/praise them for their accomplishments.

The problem or research question is complex because, no one person can solve this mystery, along with more intensive research and figuring out what is causing this effect on children mentally, even though we are dealing with emotions and behavior we still need to dig a little deeper to determine the cause/effect method. Figuring out the triggers, what is more at stake, the emotions/behavior, etc. Assessments, classroom management, observations, and parent-teacher conferences can be resources that can be put forth to help with dealing with EBD disorders in children. We can look at another discipline: Counseling, it’s one of the most important tools to use, working together with a professional and training from an outside source is applicable to help with this disorder.

 

2.2 The student states or implies that there are important insights into the problem offered by two or more disciplines.

There are important insights into the problem offered by two or more disciplines. Psychologist and counseling would be the two disciplines to consult in this matter because they both getting into the what’s, why’s, who’s, and how of evaluating the child emotional/behavior state. They will ask for evaluations from the parents/family, educators, etc. to connect the dots and get to the root of the problem. Getting involved with children that have any kind of disabilities is a delicate situation, defenses can get in the way of helping the child and to derive at the problem we must communicate with each other.

2.3 The student states or implies that no single discipline has been able to address the problem comprehensively.

There has been no single discipline that has been proven to address the problem with EBD disorder, only interventions, programs, professionals, and therapy can be beneficial to treat the disorder. EBD Disorder is cross the border disorder because it constitutes other disorders such as: mood disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, and depression. With the proper treatment/therapy it can be manageable, also the severity can include medication.

 

2.4 The student states that the project addresses an important and yet unresolved issue concerning nature or society.

EBD Disorder does addresses important/unresolved issues concerning nature or society because we are affect by many things in our society that stresses us out and keep us in the loop of uncertainty. Our emotions/behaviors are brought on by the environment/community we live in, it affects our well-being and therefore it makes us behave in an inappropriate manner, whether it be positive/negative behavior. Statistics shows that 26% of American ages 18 and older, about 1 in4 adults stuffers from a diagnosable mental disorder and many suffer from more than one at a given time. http://hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/mental_health_disorders/mental_health_disorder_statistics_85,p00753

The disciplines are relevant to the problem because when a child’s emotional behavior is at state it’s developmentally something disturbing going on. It’s not brain related but psychologically related due to emotions not being in their proper state. Emotional disorder can come from many sources such as: neglect, experience of physical abuse, over stimulation of certain activities, environment, or parental stress. EBD disorder are a broad spectrum across the broader of other disabilities such as Conduct Disorder which look at the child social behavior, one that is aggressive toward people of authority, Oppositional Disorder is somewhat related to conduct disorder but not as aggressive and it more of argumentative with others, express anger often. EBD is still ongoing in research. To view a child with just more than emotional/behavioral issues is far from the problem that he/she might be experiencing because it could be any disorder that is tied into this one category, children need to be given the opportunity to express themselves, with proper interventions, family support, and guidance they can do it without labeling and criticism. One finding about EBD is that children/youth in the African American community have been defined as being the number one ethnicity group with having EBD, children have been placed in special education due to a certain disability category. It has been estimated that 2.88 black children than white children to be labeled as have some type of disability and 1.92 to having emotional/behavioral disorder another statistic is children with EBD take all their courses in special education settings/classrooms, and most children even attend alternative schools which are for at risk children. In addition to EBD, many other factors make this disorder complex because these children seem to fall into a category of selflessness, self-worth, and low self-esteem because they are labeled on so many levels. As a community we must help them define their self-worth so they may be able to function in society as adults. Doing my site visit I gained a lot of information about children and how they can learn from any given situation especially when it’s a positive situation, watching a child and listening to his responses were incredible considering the information that was given beforehand. Bringing his reading comprehension skills up by three grade levels, his self-worth was discovered by him that he could do anything he put his mind to, even with some emotional/behavioral issues that wasn’t the vocal point, the instructors and the whole team just showed him patience, love and hope.

 

Please note that if you miss these components (4.2, 4.3, 4.4) in your final draft, you will get a zero for these components.  So make it sure to have all these components in your final draft. We are making progress slowly but surely, so let’s plan to succeed in this project! 

Katrina, thanks for submitting your work. Please note that there will be -2.5 pts deduction on your final grade due to your late draft posting. Since we have an extension on STEP5 final submission, I have some comments that you can work on more on your final draft for the better grade. Hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any question.

 

First, you have at least 500 words (without the reflection part) in your final draft. If you do not meet the word limit, points will be taken off from your final draft. Second, you need to bring insights from two playposit videos you watched. Make it sure to contain names of videos in your final draft. You also need to post an expanded resource table with contains key insights discussed in class. Did you turn in your table in class? If you did, please let me know. 

 

One last important comment is that you need to implement and reflect these comments IN YOUR FINAL DRAFT NOT IN YOUR REFLECTION. I have noticed that you answered to my comments in your reflection. Please avoid that as the feedback is for your final draft to be better.