Observation Task 2: Identifying Children with Special

Educational Needs (SEN)

Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Focus: Identifying types of learning support needed for SEN

students

Objective: To encourage student teachers to support and included

the learning needs of identified SEN students in the classroom

Procedure: Identify two children who have SEN and complete table
2 to highlight their needs and identify support that is offered which
facilitates their learning. If your class has no SEN students you
will need to go to a class that has SEN students in order to
complete this task.

Table2: SEN Support for Students

Name Age IEP Area of Focus Type, range and frequency
of support provided /
needed.

Haithem 5 years Possible ADHD: the Daily Teacher Support with

student have adhd advice from Learning
symptoms like Enhancement Teacher:
hyperactivity and not Sit child in space by the
being able to focus teacher
Give him an activity to
make him move in and
get his enrgy out before
the lesson starts

Table 2: SEN Support for Students

Name Age IEP Area of Focus Type, range and frequency of
support provided/needed.
Shaikah 4 years > The student isnt The teacher makes the
old able to see far away words and letters bigger
objects and she for her
cannot see clearly The teacher uses objects
that she can touch and
feel
Reflections on Observation Task 2: Identifying
Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Read the questions below and write your answers

1. What is the school policy for inclusion for SEN

students in the school?
The students get included in the classroom and if
they need help they ask the teacher helper to sit with
them

2. What accommodations were made for the identified

SEN students in the classroom?
The school talk to the student's parents and have an interview
with them about their child t
3. Was there any assistive technology, other equipment
or materials used with the identified SEN students? If
yes, please describe the equipment that was used
and what it was used for.
The teachers send the students to a professional
person to diagnose the child with this and they do
not have a material to use but they send a note to
the parents and tell them

4. What teaching strategies did your MST use with the

identified SEN students?
The teacher look at the student and try to see if the
student have symptoms and she send them to a
nurse or a professional person to deal with them and
if the person said that the child has sen the school
contacts the parents

5. Where there any other school staff that worked with

the identified SEN students? If yes, please explain
their role and what they did with the identified SEN
student.
 Yes the school have a teacher helper that deals with
sen students and they try and let all the teachers
helprs be able to deal with those students

6. Do you think that SEN students should be included in

the classroom or taught in class specifically for SEN
students? Why / Why not?
Yes I think if they are able to learn they should be
included in the classroom but the teacher should be
prepared to deal with them