School Day Application and Creativity to Support the Wellbeing of a Student

Abstract

The purpose of my thesis is to study how special education students with different disabilities in learning and/ or behavioral issues can be supported by using different exercises in teaching of social and emotional skills, social emotional learning, creativity and School Day Application. The thesis consists of a theoretical framework of social relationships, understanding social problems, crisis and traumas together with different teaching skills. My target group for the thesis is 4th grade special education students. My aim was to explore different ways to support the students` learning by using different activities such as the School Day Application, social and emotional skills exercises and creativity to help the students` to help the students' learning and wellbeing. My thesis was descriptive.

Literature review in form of qualitative research. My research questions in my thesis were: How can I help special education students learn better by using creativity and School Day Application in my teaching? How can I support the wellbeing of special education students by using different exercise in teaching? The information research for my thesis was done by using different social services books from the library and through School Day Application data basis.

Analyzing content was done by reviewing literature. By overviewing the results, I found out how to help special education children to get better wellbeing and learn more by using different exercises and School Day Application. The students develop more when teachers support the child`s own wellbeing, curiosity and the way the students learn their best. An important factor was to take the students learning progress into consideration individually. The co-operation between families and school is very important to support the students` individuality and development.