Special Education Reflective Report

I completed my ten practicum hours at the Belgium Elementary School in a first grade classroom. The pre-conceptions I had before completing my Special Education 351 course and my practicum hours, included that students with exceptionalities were incorporated in the classroom limitedly. I expected to there by more boys with special needs in the class than girls. More so, I assumed that there was not a great deal of students with exceptionalities in the lower grades present in the general education classroom. The past experience I have with working with students with exceptionalities includes working in a special education classroom with both high school and middle school aged students; however, this experience did not prepare me for the inclusion in a general education classroom. This new experience and completing my Special Education 351 course has displayed to me that there are many lessons, concepts, and strategies that I can incorporate into my general education classroom to help students with special needs in my classroom to achieve success.
The first strategy that I learned to …show more content…
special education teacher, speech pathologist, etc.). With this new knowledge and experience, three commitments that I will make, in my future career, to help children with special needs both socially and academically include having high expectations of all my students, including those with and without exceptionalities, to create structure within my classroom with the use of routine and organization, and repeating expectations and classroom rules to help students understand what is expected on them academically and