I agree that we need highly skilled and educated teachers, but we also need highly educated paraprofessionals, administration staff and office staff, who are willing to help and assist the student and their families. Benson (2004) mentioned that Teachers in bilingual classrooms sometimes find barriers like “large and overcrowded classes of under-nourished…
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Establishing and maintaining effective collaboration platforms within an educational setting will have significant influences on students with moderate to severe disabilities. It is vital for special education teachers, paraprofessionals, parents, general education teachers, community members, and school personnel to collaborate in meaningful means, thus ensuring a student’s best interest is the primary focus. The creation of collaborative spaces will provide opportunities to…
From an early age I have been exposed to the benefits and triumphs available to someone who works as an educator. Coming from a family where both my parents were involved in Education has had a substantial impact on my career choices. My mother has been a Special Education Teacher, and my father an Educational Audiologist, for more than 30 years. I can remember walking over to mom’s classroom after most days in junior high and being enlisted to help out in some varying degree. Whether it was…
is the response to intervention process used to help struggling students in any subject area. It was introduced with the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Act. If a student is identified in the classroom as struggling with a skill or lesson, the educator will use a set of interventions and test scores to help the student grasp the concept. If the student does not make progress, further intensive interventions will be applied to help with the student’s needs. In recent years, school districts…
pregnancy based on information provided by grandparents. Max live with his grandparents, he also have a baby brother who live with Max’s biological parents. The services provided to Max are occupational and physical therapies and a one to one health paraprofessional who give him support in the classroom through the day. Max is diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy which is a “disorder that impair control of movement due to damage to the developing brain” (Retrieved April 06, 2016) and he is also under…
Early intervention and early education are both extremely important to children with disabilities. There are two main differences between early intervention and early education. However, no matter the differences both programs exist for the same reasons, but there are many challenges that face delivery of early intervention services. This essay will furnish an overview of the three statements mentioned above. Early intervention and early education has two main differences. The first…
school, New Haven. Mrs. B. was inspired to be a special educator while…
local enactment of language policy can be heavily influenced by individuals positioned as experts. He emphasized the need for involvement of applied linguists at the local (institutional) level, and pointed out that there is much room for local educators to play a role in policy manipulation. Recognizing that federal- and state-level policy changes in the arena of bilingual education are low priorities at best, Cummins (2005) argues that instruction within school and in after-‐school…
Special Education was designed to instruct and meet the educational, social, emotional, and vocational needs of students with disabilities (“Special”). Special Education teachers identify, locate, and evaluate children labeled with disabilities, create IEP’s for each child, educate them within “least restrictive environments”, provide education for private schools and are certified teachers (“The History”). “Special Education refers to to a more range of services that can be provided in…