Student:​ Hannah Jones Date: ​November 23, 2020

Reading Assignment:​ Chapter 8: Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Reading Summary and Two-Column Note Form

Part 1: Summary: In no more than three separate sentences, summarize the key
information the author is conveying in this chapter. (Suggestion: Give a one-sentence
summary for each of the major sections of the reading assignment.)
The most common emotional disorders that affect students and schools are anxiety and
depression, among behavioral disorders such as ADHD and conduct disorder. Child abuse
affects a large portion of students, and it causes these students to experience the impacts
through emotional and behavioral disorders that affect them their entire lives. A child’s learning
ability depends on their emotional state; emotion drives attention drives learning.

Part 2: Personal Response

Write the words, phrases, sentences that Write your thinking about what the author
strike you. Note the page numbers. Provide says. Make connections to personal
no more than three quotations across the text experience, other texts you’ve read, and/or to
assignment. what you know about schools.

“In recent years researchers have recognized
the contribution that the emotions make not
only to the development of the human brain
but also the impact they have on the learning
process” (p. 181).
● I didn’t realize that emotions affect the
development of the brain. This makes
sense about why young children who
are affected by trauma generally seem
to never fully heal.
● Professor Meyer has said numerous
times that emotion drives attention
drives learning. If a student is not
emotionally healthy, they will have
trouble paying attention, which will
cause them to have trouble learning.
● This is why schools should focus on
the emotional aspect of children
before they try to teach them content.
● In my own life, I struggle keeping up
with school and learning whenever I
am not emotionally healthy. This is
frustrating, because I know what I am
able to achieve when I am healthy,
and it’s hard being unable to achieve
those things at times.

“Finding emotional support in the primary ● This is shocking to me. I understand

grades is easy because those teachers are
trained to provide it. But it is an entirely
different matter in secondary schools. Few
[high school teachers] have had training in
how to deal with the emotional needs of
students, and even fewer ever believed that
such training would be necessary” (p.185).
“All students-- especially those with emotional
and behavioral disorders-- need to be in an
emotionally secure setting before they can be
expected to give attention to curriculum”
(p.197).
that many students deal with
emotional and behavioral disorders as
young children, but it seems to me
that more students deal with these
disorders as they get older. I would
have expected this quote to be the
opposite: high school teachers had
training and elementary teachers
didn’t.
● It does make sense that primary
school teachers get training, so that
early intervention can be used on
students with emotional and
behavioral disorders.
● From my experience, I think that
teachers can’t spend enough time in
PD concerning emotional and
behavioral disorders. So many
students struggle with them, and as
discussed previously, emotions
determine learning. It would be worth
taking the time for teachers to get
proper training.
● This also goes along with the idea that
emotion drives attention drives
learning.
● Students will not be able to
concentrate on the curriculum if they
don’t feel emotionally (or physically)
safe.
● This reminds me of Pat Wolfe’s videos
where she talks about fight or flight. If
students are in fight or flight mode for
the entire class, their brain has shut
down the ability to learn, so nothing
they hear will be retained.
● Students with emotional and
behavioral disorders have enough
hardships in their lives. The least the
school can do for them is give them a
classroom environment they feel safe
in.