Special Education

Section 4: Instructional Decisions: Monitoring and Adjusting Writing the candidate work sample during my special education placement required a great deal of planning. I wanted my students to be able to distinguish, understand, and preform different social skills concepts that were taught during my placement. Social skills such as whole body listening, expected behavior, unexpected behavior, little problem, big problem, social detective skills, and the 5-point scale. I figured that these…

services. In this case, the student, Garret F., is a student with a physical disability. He is paralyzed from the neck down and has medical needs. He is able to function within the general education classroom, as his learning abilities remain fully intact. Able to function and perform in the general education with the help of modern technology, Garrett still requires services that others don’t, in terms of required services. Along with other medical conditions, he is life dependent on a…

first legal case study, red flags started to go up right away. The first flag was the fact that Patrick 's mother, Rose, didn 't want to be at the meeting due to being so confused. The next flag that I saw was the fact that Mellie Jackson, the special education teacher, wasn 't even in attendance. The last flag that I saw while reading this case was the fact the Rose didn 't say a single word during the hour long meeting. This means that Rose didn 't have any say in Patrick’s IEP goals. In the…

public education system is the disparity with minority student placement for Special Education programs. In many research articles, it is quite evident that minority students—specifically African American students—are simultaneously found to be overrepresented in the special education program and underrepresented in gifted programs. Actually, Losen and Orfield (2002) state that African American students only accounts for 14.8% of the population however, they comprise 20% of the special education…

The field of Special Education is an exciting field to study. Within course SE7001-8: Assessment in Special Education, I have learned a new way of looking and approaching certain situations within the realm of special education. Through the research necessary for this course, it allowed me to gain knowledge and helped to prepare me mentally for the future of being a Director of Special Education and offered insight of how school personnel, administration, paraprofessionals, and various…

Being a special education teacher was never my dream job but it did catch my eye about three years ago while working at the Fischler School of Education at Nova Southeastern University then I knew nothing about what I needed to do to became a teacher and I thought it would have been a breeze but that was not all the case. Obtaining a degree was a given but I did not know that I needed fulfill practicums that would require me to actually act as a teacher in a classroom setting. At the time this…

Graduate Goals I desire is to move forward as a graduate student in the field of Special Education Adapted Curriculum-K-12. My goal is to strengthen my ability to reach out and partner with twenty-first century learners with unique needs. I am a motivator and my focus is helping children to develop and build a desire to love and respect for themselves and others in their environment and share their own dreams and ideas with their teacher and peers. When the voice of each child is heard, and…

past three years, and I have also volunteered as a camp councilor at a church camp where I would supervise my camp group and teach a bible lesson once per day. In addition to these examples, this summer I was hired to be a para-educator for special education summer school at BOCES where I worked with eleven middle school students for six weeks. Currently, my confidence is level high as I have been doing well in all of my classes, in track, and I am lucky enough to receive support and be…

Special Education Reform Education has evolved over the 100 year timeframe and special education has come a long way from where it began. However, there are still changes that are needed for special education. This paper gives an outlook on three major events in the history over the 100 years and how it has shaped and changed special education. It also discusses changes that still need to be made to continue to evolve. Three Important Moments No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left behind…

Minority Representation Special Education can be provided to any student with disabilities if they qualify for an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), but is there a disproportionate representation of minorities in special education classrooms? As it appears now, there is two sides to this argument, the first being an overrepresentation of minority students in special education classes and the second being an underrepresentation of minority students in special education classes. However, when…