What are some things you would do next if Casey were a student in your classroom? According to the observations, there are several occasions when the teacher seemed to ask Casey to do the appropriate behaviors but did not follow up after the child’s action (such as telling Casey to hang the lunchbox but did not respond after Casey failed to aim the hook and the lunchbox fell down, or telling Casey to put the books back but did not follow up and acknowledge what Casey did). If I were Casey’s teacher, I would focus more on acknowledging and complimenting her appropriate behaviors by saying explicitly what she did right, and pay more attention to what Casey does after I give her instructions. As for academic curriculum, I would pay more attention on matching the letter sounds with the letter pronunciations (such as “what sound does b make?”). I would use small group instructions and choose some children who have acquired more knowledge of letter sounds to engage in the group activity with Casey so that she would have chances to engage in observational learning. I would probably use a token economy at first to increase motivations to learn, but later on embed letter sound games during transition periods to do a recap of what the children have learnt.
