Child Observation Case Study of an Elementary Student...

The student that I am observing for my case study is a very imaginative student in our classroom. I believe this because I can say one word to this student and he can come up with a whole story just from that word. When he works one on one with a teacher, he is very cooperative and polite. I recently noticed that if a fellow classmate were struggling with a particular concept, he would try to give them hints towards the answer. There are quite a few patterns of behavior that have been interfering with this student’s school success. The one that I would like to focus on for this case study is this student’s aggressive behavior. We have been in school for approximately 9 weeks now, and each week we have seen some type of aggressive†¦show more content†¦In order to prevent this behavior from occurring and harming the other students in our class, we have pulled this student out prior to large group activities to work one on one with a teacher. During these times he is working with educational material, he is not just playing. What my mentor and myself I have noticed from this behavior is that he is a completely different student in this atmosphere. What I mean by this is that when he has the full attention of the teacher, he is very polite, he will cooperate with the teacher and he is very helpful. When he is engaged, he will work hard on whatever the task is and contribute in a mea ningful way. The reason I believe this intervention is effective for this student and helps to decrease his aggressive behavior, is because there are times that he becomes aggressive in order to gain the attention of either his peers or a teacher. For example, during a group discussion he will call out answers and my mentor will ask him not to do this. After she tells him this he resorts to hitting his neighbor. By giving this student a teacher’s full attention, he no longer needs to resort to acts of aggression. 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