Special Education

disabilities participate in the general education classroom. (Hallahan, Kauffman, Viriginia, & Pullen, 2013) The first one would be collaborative consultation. In collaborative consultation the special education teacher gives advice to the general education teacher. I know from experience that the special education teachers are always the go to people for advice. The second method is the co-teaching method. Co-teaching is when the general education teacher and special educational teacher work…

Philosophy of Education The education system has always been an establishment that is looking for the best programs and support to help students. Overtime, the methods of teaching have changed to make accommodation for students who need additional support. The rights of students with disabilities has evolved over the years into a system that allows them to become independent learners. The education system has given students with disabilities a platform. Currently, special education students…

completing my Special Education 351 course and my practicum hours, included that students with exceptionalities were incorporated in the classroom limitedly. I expected to there by more boys with special needs in the class than girls. More so, I assumed that there was not a great deal of students with exceptionalities in the lower grades present in the general education classroom. The past experience I have with working with students with exceptionalities includes working in a special education…

Special education emerged in the context of social reform, inspired by belief in natural rights and individual worth, and the conviction that, through education, every person can contribute to society (Cushner, McClelland & Safford, 2012). The authors maintain in important respects, it began as a rescue mission. In 1860 nearly two thirds of the countless “unfortunates” who languished in American almshouses were children with sensory or other physical or cognitive impairments. By the 1870s, state…

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…

issues in special education today is disproportionality. Disproportionality was first reported in 1968 by an educational researcher named Lloyd Dunn. Dunn observed that 60 to 80 percent of students who were misidentified for special education services were students from low-status backgrounds including African Americans and students from non-middle class environments (Vallas, 2009). Still, years later, the problem continues to exist. Minorities continue to be overrepresented in special…

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…

This past week on September 29th, I sat down in person to interview my host teacher; Mrs. B. Mrs. B is a special education teacher at New Haven Elementary School of Columbia Public Schools, and she has been teaching students with disabilities for 15 years. Throughout all 15 years of teaching, she has always been in a self-contained classroom, but as the years have gone on she has experienced students of all different functioning levels. Her first year of teaching was in Moberly, due to the fact…

This was a news report about placing cameras in to special education classrooms at an elementary school in Killeen, Texas. This was et in place after a mother of a student with Cerebral Palsy was mistread not only at recess but in the classroom as well. Eight cameras were places into four special education rooms. They will be turned on 30 minutes before school starts and turn off 30 munutes after the school day gets over. This is beyond shocking, and don’t know where I stand on this. I…

reading comprehension skills. The goal of Success for All is to reduce the number of referrals to special education and help improve reading skills of all children in the general education classrooms. Tutors are used to provide one on one instructions for students with or at risk for learning disabilities. The results of Success for All showed an increase in students reading abilities and special education placement had declined. However, more current research shows that students receiving…