Special Education Teacher Essay

As a special education teacher candidate, my belief about special education is that it is necessary for all students with disabilities that are not academically successful. The role of special education in the schools is to provide students with special needs, an education that is a free, appropriate, public education in the least restrictive environment. Students need to be educated in the setting where their needs are met and they can be most academically successful. My role as a special educator is to provide accommodations and modifications to help the student reach academic success.
I believe students learn in a variety of ways. Each student learns content in a different way and we all have different types of intelligence as proposed by Gardener. Each student has a unique set of skills and talents that need to be brought out by me as the teacher, and this comes …show more content…
As a teacher, according to Redl & Watternburg my role as a teacher is to be a role model, a judge, referee, a source of knowledge and a surrogate parent. I should also be supporting student self control by keeping eye contact with a student when challenging behavior arises and use low key techniques such as humor, moving closer, encouraging the student or ignoring the behavior in order to keep it from escalating. I also believe in offering situational assistance to students in order to help them be successful. This may include restructuring the student’s schedule, establishing a classroom routine, removing a student from a situation, taking away distracting objects and physical restraint, as a last resort. If a student’s behavior escalates, when a student calms down, I believe the teacher should follow up with the student about the choices they made and what choices they could have made, in a positive