Students with ADHD and ADD
What is ADHD? ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder. People who have ADHD experience various degrees of impulsivity, attention deficit and hyperactivity....
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Working with students who have been diagnosed with ODD can be very challenging. It is really important to interact thoughtfully and respectfully all of your students to enable them to be successful....
View ArticleAnxiety and Depression
Anxiety Anxiety is a human emotion that everyone experiences at one time or another. You might feel anxiety when you need to face a problem at work or at school, when you are taking a test, when you...
View ArticleBehaviour Management Plans
In an international classroom, there are usually between 15 and 20 students. 15 to 20 children with their own individual experiences, strengths, and weaknesses. Therefore, it is very common that there...
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Introduction and Definitions
“Will it ever stop? Is this normal? Am I okay with this? Should this be happening to me right now? Does anyone even notice what is happening to me? Am I alone in this fight? Should I speak up to...
View ArticlePhysical Abuse
Definition According to KidsHelpline (2018), physical abuse consists of a single or repeated act of physical violence that causes injury. The violence can be intentional or unintentional and the...
View ArticleEmotional Abuse
Definition Emotional abuse is systematic, emotional mistreatment that has the ability to damage the cognitive and affective of ones’ functioning. (Barlow, Hibbard, and MacMillan, 2012). This...
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Children need affection from adults. Touch and attention is a need that is important for a child’s physical, cognitive, and social development (Carroll et al. 2013, Narvaez et al. 2016). However,...
View ArticleSexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse is a real, serious problem on a global scale. There is no universal definition for sexual assault since it comes in many types and ways and it depends on the perspective from which...
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A Classroom Approach
It can be difficult for a classroom teacher to deal with students that are victims of abuse. The signs can be hard to identify as many are common in a large variety of disorder-, disability- and...
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In this chapter, we have used several terms including ‘’LGBTQ+’’, ‘’gender identity’’, and ‘’queer’’. We acknowledge that not everyone will identify with these terms. There are also many different...
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Teaching and Talking
The Facts: At least one in ten students identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community (Erickson, Gladstone, Gottlieb, Ng & Parkins, 2011). Students of all sexualities, genders, and racial or ethnic...
View ArticleTalking to Parents
The role that families play in their children’s lives and the process of inclusion is crucial. Families are the first people to know the child and they will be the ones involved throughout their school...
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Definitions of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Sensory Processing Disorder Sensory Processing Sensitivity or also called “High Sensitivity” is not a psychological disorder or something that needs to...
View ArticleAdvantages – Strengths based
The following section deals with high sensitivity in children, with a focal point on school and classroom environment. Featuring a range of different intervention strategies, activities, and...
View ArticleInclusive Classroom Design
This section about ‘sensitivity within the classroom’ focuses on providing insights into the student’s perception of over-stimulation from vision, sound, and touch within the primary classroom. In the...
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Outside the Classroom
Many highly sensitive children try to avoid spending time in school playgrounds, gyms and sports facilities because they are often loud, uncontrolled spaces. With the right interventions, these spaces...
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Introduction and Definitions
We would like you to feel calm and in control so that you can make the most of this chapter. Try out the activity below and then start reading! Activity: Tree Breathing Breathe in, imagining your nose...
View ArticleMisconceptions about Mental Health
Common Misconceptions When looking at mental health and how it is perceived within society, there are still a lot of misconceptions. This segment lists the most common of them. People with mental...
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Resources and Strategies for Teachers
The Importance of Resources It has been proven that the group of students who received the mental health promotion and prevention program in schools are less likely to have a hard time dealing with...
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Anna is a 7-year-old student from Austria. She recently moved to Thailand with her family, and now attends an international school in Bangkok. Anna had just started to learn English at her old school,...
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The Case Studies – Case 1
INTRODUCTION OF CASE STUDIES The following section will analyse specific case studies with challenges that ITEps student-teachers have encountered during their Teaching Practices in international,...
View ArticleCases Two and Three
Case Two: Student B Towards the end of the school year, the new student-teacher was asked to support “B.” in a one-to-one learning format. “B.” is a 7-year-old student who recently moved from the Czech...
View ArticleCase Studies Three to Eight
Case Study 4: Student D “D.” is a 5-year-old student and according to observations, controlling emotions is a difficult skill to achieve. When peers are, from “D.”s perspective, being mean, the first...
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Introduction
Self-efficacy; everyone struggles with it from time to time. Do you remember the feeling when you are given an assignment for school and you think ‘How am I going to do this’? You only see how much...
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Factors Influencing Self-efficacy
High and low self- efficacy People with a low sense of self-efficacy doubt their ability to reach a goal or complete a task. This makes them lose their motivation and have a weak commitment to the task...
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How to foster self-efficacy
How to strengthen students’ self- efficacy Our students’ senses of self-efficacy are influenced by teachers, students, and other people who play a part in their daily lives. School and classroom...
View ArticleSelf efficacy and mental health
Low sense of self-efficacy and depression Depression, in a nutshell, is the feeling of sadness over a long period and self-efficacy the belief and confidence that a person can reach their goal or...
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Collective and Teacher Efficacy
Defining Collective efficacy Bandura discovered an interesting pattern in one of his research studies (1977). He noticed that a group’s shared belief in its abilities seemed to be associated with much...
View ArticleUsing Team Teaching to Foster Inclusion
What is team teaching Terms such as team teaching, cooperative teaching and collaborative teaching have been used interchangeably for many years. Essentially, they address the same topic, with slight...
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Introduction
Creating a safe space for every student is crucial for their development. In this chapter we will be talking about how you recognize attachment and related behavioral issues in your students and...
View ArticleFor more Reading and Learning
Further reading on the deficit, cultural and sociological perspective on (dis)ability: Baynton, D. (n.d.). Language Matters: Handicapping An Affliction. Retrieved on 11 November, 2020, from...
View ArticleImpacts of attachment on children’s development
WATCH The following documentary follows two British parents and their efforts in creating a better bond with their daughter Georgina, who had been classified as having special educational needs due to...
View ArticleAttachment Aware Classrooms
NOTE: Educators are not responsible for, cannot and should not attempt to solve students’ attachment issues. Whilst we might hold a deep desire to see a particular student healthy, content and thriving...
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Sources of Self-Efficacy
There are four main types of experiences that develop and influence our self-efficacy: mastery experiences or performance outcomes vicarious experiences or watching other people perform verbal...
View ArticleEight Learning Barriers
COGNITIVE LEARNING BARRIERS Cognitive learning barriers encompass the limitations people possess in the areas of cognitive functioning and skills which include conceptual, social, and practical skills...
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References for: The Deficit, Cultural and Sociological Perspectives Baynton, D. (n.d.). Language Matters: Handicapping An Affliction. Retrieved on 11 November, 2020, from...
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Amer, L. (May 2019). Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality [Video file]. Retrieved on September 23, 2020, from Lindsay Amer: Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality Arbogast, A....
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Appelbaum, L. (2018). Frida Kahlo: Role Model for Artists, People with Disabilities and Bisexual Women. Respect Ability. Chella Man. (n.d.).Home [YouTube Channel]. Children of Lesbians and Gays...
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First Group Abikoff, H. B., Jensen, P. S., Arnold, L. E., Hoza, B., Hechtman, L., Pollack, S.,. . . Wigal, T. (2002). Observed classroom behavior of children with ADHD: Relationship to gender and...
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Benzon, R., August 13 2019, Wika Media, a Singaporean tech startup, information retrieved from...
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Amend, E. R., Beaver-Gavin, K., Schuler, P., & Beights, R. (2009). A Unique Challenge: Sorting Out the Differences Between Giftedness and Asperger’s Disorder. Gifted Child Today, Vol. 32, No. 4....
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2001. Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust And People With Disabilities. [ebook] California: Disability rights advocate, p.27. Available at:...
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Introduction, Sexual abuse & Conclusion Castro, Á, Ibáñez, J., Maté, B., Esteban, J., & Barrada, J. (2019). Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behavior, and Revictimization in Adolescence and...
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Ainsworth, M. (1983). Mary D. Salter Ainsworth. In A. O’Connell & N. Russo, Models Of Achievement: Reflections Of Eminent Women In Psychology. (1st ed., pp. 200-219). New York: Columbia...
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LAURA Aron. E. (2002). The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping our children thrive when the world overwhelms them. (1st). USA: Broadway Books. Aron, E., (n.d.). The Highly Sensitive Person: Is this you....
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Afifi, M. (2007). Gender differences in mental health. Singap. Med. J. 48 (5), 385–391 (Review). American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (2017, July). Retrieved November 13, 2020, from...
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Adams, G. (n.d.). What are Anxiety and OCD?. Retrieved on November 4th, 2020, from https://anxietyintheclassroom.org/school-system/i-want-to-learn-more/anxiety-and-ocd-symptoms/. Administration, S.,...
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Ackerman, C.E. (2020, October 19). What is self-efficacy theory in psychology? (+ PDF). Retrieved on September 11, 2020, from https://positivepsychology.com/self-efficacy/ Alrubail, R. (2015,...
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