In the film, “Sean’s Story”, Sean Begg is an 8 year old boy with Down Syndrome. Him and his parents had been enduring a seven year fight to have Sean placed in a regular public school. Previously, he was enrolled in a contained classroom in a school for children with disabilities. Throughout the film, audiences are able to observe the controversial experiences Sean and his family withstood as well as compare his new life in a general education classroom to his former life in a special education classroom. Analyzing various aspects of communication, collaboration, and Sean’s improvements by the end of his first public school year allow viewers to critique the educational decisions made in Sean’s life.…
As a special education teacher, her main focus is on her students’ academic performance in the classroom, and she creates her lesson plans based on her students’ needs. The downside is that Mrs. Taylor feels the documentation of the each student’s IEP takes away time from the classroom. She feels that she can identify and know what her students’ need and goals based on her observations and interactions in…
Understanding exceptionalities ahead of enhancing assistant prior to the achievement participating classroom. Consequently, retaining the mechanism before facilitation learners with exceptionalities. Richard D Lavoe video The FAT City stands for frustration Anxiety and Tension. Therefore, he assists educators assimilate compassion regarding a learner who experience learning disability.…
Rick explains, that this understanding is so important because the statistic that 6 to 10% of children in the US have a diagnosed learning disability (F.A.T). Equipped with this statistic, the professionals in this group will have direct contact with many students throughout their educational careers. Rick created this video to help anyone understand through direct observation, the participants responses and experiences, that closely relate to how a student with a language-based disability receives and perceives information. By understanding this information, professionals who have direct contact with the student, will learn how…
In the video, “Eye of the Storm Featuring Jane Elliott Training Video or DVD TrainingABC,” Jane Elliot explains how a blue-eyed is more superior to anyone who has brown eyes. She goes on to say that “the blue-eyed people will get 5 more minutes of recess and the brown-eyed people with have to use a cup to drink from the fountain” (TrainingABC, 2013). Even though I believe Elliot thought this would work in all generations, I don’t agree with that at all. Parents should not allow their children to go through with this because it could cause discrimination based on eye color and it can cause them hurt in the long run. In this video, Elliot discussed how a certain eye color means that you are better than another.…
The video I chose was a Ted Talks video with scientists James Hansen who spoke out about climate change. James Hansen has written and published many articles and books about climate change and also worked with NASA for a period of time to help developed an experiment to fly to Venus. James Hensen's climate observations truly began in 1981 when he joined other scientists to analyze and publish an article in a science magazine that observed that the earth was warming 0.4 degrees Celsius in the century before. The developers of the article came to the conclusion that their research was consistent with the greenhouse effect which meant there is an increase in CO2 on earth.…
When observing a special education classroom I am not only observing the class, but I am observing a glimpse into my future as a teacher. I was privileged enough to observe a multi-needs intermediate classroom with students who range from eight to ten year olds at Hope D. Wall School who have moderate to server learning disorders and physical handicaps. The purpose of the multi-need classroom is for the teacher to assess which path the student will take after the year is over. For an example some students might need more intensive guidance during their education, while other students attend life skills classes in order to prepare for life outside of school. While I was observing the class, I was fortunate enough to witness the students participate…
As Special Education Teacher and General Education Teacher we need to work together in order to achieve the goals for the IEP for a particular student. In this case Ms. Fragoso and I developed an Instructional Matrix to follow in a daily basis in our inclusion setting. In this table we included goals to improve in our student the social skills and communication skills. We concluded that we need to help our student in order to improve his social and communication skills in order to improve his quality of life. It is important to say that this Instructional Matrix will remind us to reinforce each of instruction for each period.…
Even alpha m.’s user name references dominance and masculinity. “Alpha” is presumably a reference to the alpha, or highest ranking individual in a group of people. “The alpha male posturing, so familiar to young men out in public space, has been a staple of masculine behavior for decades” (Moss, 2012, p. 14). Alpha m. embraces this idea of the alpha male, but he believes that a man can be an alpha while also interested in his appearance. Alpha m.’s channel, like Studio5ive.com, a website for male cosmetics studied by Claire Harrison, aims to target men who “posses or want to posses a ‘sense of style and image awareness’” (2012).…
Through this presentation I learned a lot. I learned that about “Spread the Word, to End the Word.” I never heard about that movement before and being able to have somebody in our group that has participated in it was very interesting. I have heard about person first word before, but sometimes I realized during this presentation that I wasn’t using it. I would identify the disability and not the person.…
Including Samuel is a documentary about the experiences of many individuals with disabilities in the traditional education system within the United States. While focusing on inclusion and the environment of schools with individuals with disabilities in mind, the film explores many interesting viewpoints on the subject. In the main spotlight of the documentary lies Samuel, a boy born with a disability and his families efforts to allow him to grow up in an integrated school system. While this family struggles with many of the daily issues of having a son with disabilities, their efforts were immortalized in this documentary. It was incredibly interesting to see this documentary from the viewpoint of my own life, growing up in a traditional…
In 2012, 5.8 million children in the United States were receiving special education services all as result from The Disability Movement pushing for IDEA and ADA. Over 2.3 million (more than 40%) of those students are identified with having a specific learning disability (Lee). Prior to the success of ADA and IDEA, children with a disability were not able to get a proper public school education. The Disability Movement and its success with IDEA has strongly impacted schools. It is incredibly important for students with disabilities to participate and interact with ‘normal’ kids their age in a general educational classroom.…
Special education is in every school system to help students with disabilities have success in life. According to Artiles and colleagues research, children back in the 1800s were excluded from educational opportunities (Artiles, Harris-Murri, and Rostenberg, 2006, p. 260). Children with disabilities were often segregated into either a separate classroom or separate schools with curriculum that didn’t fit their needs (Artiles, 2006, p. 260). Children were held to low standards, but fortunately that is not the way we see special education today. With the introduction of the Individual with Disabilities Education Act otherwise known in IDEA in 2004 we see more of a movement towards inclusion (Department of Education, 2004).…
The job of a special education teacher may be very difficult and challenging at times. The profession requires patience, creativity, and adaptability. To be successful in this profession, I think you have to have a true passion to teach special education. I believe I have that passion. I fell in love with working with students with disabilities when I volunteered at a summer camp for people with disabilities.…
Doris Chevis EDUC 6315 American Educational Reform Research Paper Teaching Students’ with Disabilities Teaching student’s with disabilities is a research-based field that is dedicated to educators who believe in the growth and the well being of special kids. This topic discussed will introduce: what a disability is, how are kids referred to special education, how can we accommodate these kids, and what benefits can the kids have after high school. Teaching students’ with disabilities is a special task; a person has to have the knowledge, skill and patience to work in the environment. I have worked with students’ with disabilities for three years now and have studied their disabilities and how to accommodate them for 5 years. Defining what a disability is What is a disability?…