This module’s class focused on a number of concerns related to challenging students. Contribute to the Discussion by responding to the guiding questions.
Discuss why some students are not behaviorally or academically impacted by poverty, divorce, and/or a dysfunctional family when other students are
significantly impacted by these factors. Knowing that poverty, divorce, and/or a dysfunctional family increase a student’s potential for school difficulties,
but they do not assure it, how would you change a teacher’s belief that these home situations cause a student’s school difficulties?
Why is it important to train all of the instructional, related service, and administrative staff in a school the same data-based, functional
assessment/problem-solving process, and how should this training impact the delivery of early intervention services, the number of referrals to the school’s
multidisciplinary team, and/or the number of referrals for special education assessment and determination over time?