Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Individualizing: A Plan for Success
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Individualizing Every Day--An Ongoing Dynamic Process
Handout 19: Individualizing for Bernard
Part I: You will have 30 minutes to complete Part I and Part II of this handout.
Meet Bernard . . .
Instructions: Read and discuss the following information about Bernard, a three-and-half-year-old who is enrolled in a Head Start program that combines home visiting with center sessions.
Bernard lives with his mother and father in a two-bedroom house next door to his paternal grandparents. His parents met in high school. His father works on a neighbor's dairy farm. His mother stays home with Bernard and his younger sister, ten-month-old Trixie. His grandmother and grandfather work at a factory in town. His mother's family is Ukrainian and Irish. His father's family is African-American. Bernard's parents think it's important to appreciate their family's diverse cultural backgrounds.Some things Bernard can do are:
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ride a tricycle share, if he feels like it balance blocks wash his face and hands run answer simple questions set the table ask for help put on his shoes |
pull a wagon throw and catch a ball stick with a task, if he's interested do five- to seven-piece puzzles draw with markers and crayons classify by color or size pound, roll, and squeeze Play-Doh describe what he's doing tear paper |
Some things Bernard is learning to do are:
| build a block tower wait for a turn sing songs skip and hop use props with Play-Doh |
button and zip pour juice without spilling turn the pages of a book classify by characteristics other than color or size cut with scissors |
Sometimes Bernard:
| loses his temper hugs people he likes spills his juice falls when he is running feels sad when away from his home and family |
sucks his thumb has bathroom accidents alternates using his right and left thumb cries when it's time to go inside grabs toys from other children |
Bernard especially likes:
| feeding the chickens going to work with his father painting and drawing water play pushing big trucks in the sandbox |
being outdoors playing with his sister cooking and baking playing house stories about machines such as The Little Engine that Could |
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