Mainstreaming Reflective Curriculum Assessment

The mainstreaming is very familiar to me, I myself was a victim of this, I was identified when I was in fifth grade by this time I was so behind my classmates. I was pulled out for reading and then again for math. That same year I got glasses which in turn helped as well. During my mainstreaming, I was hardly ever in my classroom and had a hard time socially as well. Then in high school, I went through the “integration” stage, I would go to the first few minutes of my classes and then go to the learning resource room for the rest of the time where my teacher would help me with the work and sometimes unfortunately my teacher would do it for me. I truly believe now since I have been a teacher and now becoming a special education teacher, I might not have been identified if some of these …show more content…
I haven’t had the chance to use the new assessments tools to see what my opinion of them as of yet. Most test touch on the 5 developmental domains recognized by IDEA while others many only touch on one main domain such as behavior or emotional development, other factors might be the child’s age and many other factors as in environmental, and biological status. Environmental factors are a very big part of the assessment process, is there a cultural difference, as well as can you understand the child. If there are cultural differences, you must make sure the children are understanding what you are saying, can they respond to you, and is behavior in the way. Assessments done by ECSE have guidelines we must follow for testing the young children. To me the most important first step is to form a close bond with the family, which takes in consideration their cultural background are well as other factors. Identifying the needs of the child but knowing what the child 's strengths are is just as