SAP

This is the first week in the SAP. SAP stand for School Age Program. Children in SAP are already in the age to go to primary. However due to their disabilities, they will not be able to cope themselves in school. The learning sections in SAP are quite similar with EIP only SAP has 1 addition section- language time. Different groups in SAP actually learning different things in this section. For SAP 1, they are learning sentences such as cleaning ourselves and so on. For SAP 2, they are learning about awareness toward others, for example we can only hug and kiss our family. For SAP 3, they only learn to brush their teeth.
First day in SAP, I was assigned to shadow aid a boy. Shadow aiding means that I have to focus on a boy help him to focus on the lessons going on and more importantly I need to make sure that the boy would not run away from his place. I thought that it would be easy but in the end it was a nightmare. The child did not cry, the child did not scream, but he threw things. I was unable to estimate his movement. For example, I asked him to out counters on the dots. After telling him what to do, he put his hand into the basket. Assuming that he wants to take counter, I began to feel happy. The next thing I knew was the basket and counters were all over the floor. He did show me any sign. The same event happens over and over again the whole session. By the time the sessions ended, I was feeling very desperate. It was not the first time I bullied by a student, but I always able to change the situation by given some kinds of punishments such as extending the tuition time or telling the parents. It will always work. However I surrender for this particular child. Even I ask him to pick every counters as punishment, he seem stopped throwing things. Only after the session, my colleague told me that never ask that particular child to pick things up. I wonder. Lecturers always told us that it is one way to teach the child about consequences. I confused. Then my colleague told me that that particular child seem to like picking things.
Only then I realized what happen, what support to be punishments now become reinforcement for the child. He likes to pick things up. Therefore he would throw things onto the floor, and then people will ask him to pick it up. No wonder he keeps on throwing things. One man meat is another man poison. We have to always checking with the parents while handling the children in order to use the most effective reinforce or punishment to motivate the children. In my case, I used the wrong punishment for that particular child so he never stops throwing things.