Specials

In first video , the Reed’s parents, Bruce Goldstein the Director of Special Education, Susan Gribebler a first grade teacher at Jones elementary, and Virginia Stern a speech and language pathologist at Kennedy School where conducting an Individual Educational Plan (IEP) for Reed educational needs by considering his least restricted environment level. During the IEP meeting the parents and school officials were not able to accurately communicate with one another about Reed’s educational needs.…

While it is not my intention to teach Special Education in a self-contained classroom environment, I am motivated to teach in an inclusive classroom environment. Teaching has been the highlight of my days the last couple of years in my internships, and it is my intention to further my own knowledge…

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…

and 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…

Mrs. Polli Mays who is one of the EC general curriculum resource teachers at Reedy Creek. Throughout the day, I observed her co-teaching in 3rd and 5th grade classrooms as well as teaching kindergarten and then 1st grade in the resource room. The special education classroom is separate from the school in a building behind the school. It is decorated like most classrooms with posters and letters on the wall. There are a lot of visual and very colorful stimuli located on the walls of the…

I did all of my observations with Mrs. Bowmann in the afternoons, and one morning, while she had her students within the special education classroom. I observed around the same time each time I went it so I was able to see the routine the students went through. I also got the opportunity to observe the students aid within the classroom as well as follow the special education students to art class to participate in an inclusion setting with their other peers. I was able to speak one on one with…

general education classrooms. However, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the least restrictive environment for children for disabilities should be in an educational setting “with other children who are not disabled, and special classes…occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability of a child is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily” (US Department of Education, n.d). It is…

My first reaction to all three videos was WOW!! we have growth tremendously in the ways technology is being use to provide students with special needs support to function in school and in the world. Sadly, I feel that in many schools students are not receiving enough assistive technology. How SAD! The article "Special Education - Assistive Technology and Accessibility" opened my eyes to the wide range of assistive technology that exists today. Sure in enough these groups of children are very…

observe a Special Education Day Class (SDC) at Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova. The instructor is Mrs. Melody Smith-Williams, a 10th - 11th grade Special Education English teacher. The observation took place on Friday, May 13, 2016 from 9:00am -12:00pm. On the day of my observation there were 27 students (8 English learners, 6 African- Americans, and 13 white). There were also 2 Para-educator, besides Mrs. Smith-Williams, and a student Aide present in the classroom (13 of the special…

Throughout my early school years, I struggled to learn. I attended two different preschools, a kindergarten, and two different elementary schools, in two different states. During that time, I was evaluated for special education services and placed on a 504 plan at St. Albert the Great. With the adaptions and the help from my teachers, I was able to make grade level progress and move on high school, at Mercy Academy. During my years at Mercy, I learned to overcome my learning differences by…