Council For Exceptional Students

The first amendment is about family involvement in children's education, especially children with disabilities. Parents are so important in the educational process, and everything goes better when they're involved. The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) includes "Family engagement" as one of their core values. Nevertheless, unless a teacher communicates with the parent where their child academically struggles nothing will change for that child. This might be a difficult amendment to implement, but the goal of a community should be having an ideal education system that helps everyone learn, whether it be at school or at home.
1) “All general education teachers will meet with their students' parents once a month for a half hour, and all …show more content…
This is such an important concept, and many people are very reluctant to do it. I see this at the respite I volunteer at all the time: these young adults (usually college students) are supposed to be mature and educated, but they are very awkward, confused, and sometimes frightened around children who have disabilities. Perhaps if they had spent more time with students in special education during primary and secondary school, they would feel more comfortable around the children at respite. Students in general education need to spend significant amounts of time with their peers who are in special education. The CEC places "promoting meaningful and inclusive participation of individuals with exceptionalities in their schools and communities" as third in their list of Special Education Professional Ethical Principles. I agree fully, and I hope that I see more and more of this as I begin my career in special …show more content…
By leaving a child in a special education classroom all day, teachers are minimizing what that student can learn. Integration not only helps the students’ academically, but also helps with social skills among their own age. One of the main issues that children with disabilities have been a lack of social skills. This makes it hard for them to make friends and communicate. By putting them in classrooms with peers their own age, they will learn to communicate and make new friends. It is important to pull out a student from time to time to receive the other important services the school offers that will help them be successful within the classroom; however, inclusion within a normal educational setting is very