Observation Paper On Special Education

With being a nursing student, taking a special education class was something that never crossed my mind. As I came to the realization that I needed an extra elective my roommate suggested I take intro to special education. It has ended up being one of my favorite classes thus far. From learning different learning disability’s that students can have to IEP’s to accepting what autism actually is, it gave me an understanding that there is more to special education then just knowing that someone is considered “special.” With taking this class I have learned more than I ever thought; however, I learned the most just by doing my five hours of observations of an actually special education class. The only past experience I have had with special needs …show more content…
I was surprised to find out that each lesson was taught to the entire class and it was not really individualized. Also two of the girls in the class were high functioning and were able to attend different subjects in the general education classes. The first subject that I observed was English. The lesson was presented to the students on the smartboard that was in the classroom. Mr. English started off by giving the students an audiobook to listen to. After that, the students had to answer questions about the book on the smartboard. If they got it wrong they would have to continue to answer it until they got it right. Afterwards a video was presented to summarize what the book was about. She then presented a game on the smartboard to get all the students involved. Following all of that, the students were then given a worksheet with the same questions on it and had to answer it on the paper. That way the students where exposed to all forms of media. It also gave the students the ability to have all different teaching styles so they did not just get one style. They got visual learning, auditory learning, and hands-on learning. Once the English lesson was finished the students had the recycling job to do. It was cool to go around the school and help the students as they collected all the recycling papers from the different classrooms. The special education