John’s strengths include ICT, along with general numeracy and literacy skills. John also likes going to school as shown by his impressive attendance. Organizations such as the Department of Education [USA] (2009), and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (2010), advocate when planning individual education plans (IEP) for students with a special need is to amalgamate the school curriculum being taught to all students with the individual needs of the student in question and also to factor in opportunities to achieve goals using their strengths.
John reports aside from enjoying ICT and success within literacy and numeracy gaining great pleasure from being active during recess and lunch time playing sports he can control via being …show more content…
The action plan model takes the teacher out of the silo of classroom and puts them into a peer to peer collaborative environment such as formal teacher training programs or internal staff meeting or development days. O’Rourke and Houghton (2009), contented a multistep approach for this collaborative insight that weights up the positives and negatives to any change by the entire staff so no individual teacher is left with the stress of decision making when a special need student is being appraised in the context of inclusive …show more content…
Voice to text recognition software, e-texts and talking books are being common place and offered by many educational specialist as viable alternatives (Foreman and Arthur-Kelly, 2014; Dell, Newton, & Petroff, 2012; Morrison, 2007; Millett, 2009 & Hitchcock, 2001). However these still need to be assed for ensuing their positive benefits out weight their negative outcomes. For example in test conditions or when the teacher wants to achieve quiet learning environment a computer generated voice reading aloud a text book is not suitable. Additionally adding an extra AT such has headphones to overcome this adds an additional layer of separation of the student with the special need to the rest of their class. Thus the ATs become the antithesis of what they had been introduced to achieve, that being an inclusive
John reports aside from enjoying ICT and success within literacy and numeracy gaining great pleasure from being active during recess and lunch time playing sports he can control via being …show more content…
The action plan model takes the teacher out of the silo of classroom and puts them into a peer to peer collaborative environment such as formal teacher training programs or internal staff meeting or development days. O’Rourke and Houghton (2009), contented a multistep approach for this collaborative insight that weights up the positives and negatives to any change by the entire staff so no individual teacher is left with the stress of decision making when a special need student is being appraised in the context of inclusive …show more content…
Voice to text recognition software, e-texts and talking books are being common place and offered by many educational specialist as viable alternatives (Foreman and Arthur-Kelly, 2014; Dell, Newton, & Petroff, 2012; Morrison, 2007; Millett, 2009 & Hitchcock, 2001). However these still need to be assed for ensuing their positive benefits out weight their negative outcomes. For example in test conditions or when the teacher wants to achieve quiet learning environment a computer generated voice reading aloud a text book is not suitable. Additionally adding an extra AT such has headphones to overcome this adds an additional layer of separation of the student with the special need to the rest of their class. Thus the ATs become the antithesis of what they had been introduced to achieve, that being an inclusive