with low numbers of special education students to avoid reporting the academic progress of those students while encouraging schools to under-identify students with special needs? Why or why not? Is this a problem? Explain.
There seems to be a duality going on when it comes to the reporting of special needs students or any student, really, that has any sort of mental disorder or learning disability. There are some people and groups, such as psychologists and psychiatrists, that perhaps tend to over-diagnose and over-pursue (at least in some cases) when it comes to identifying students that have mental issues. However, there are others that probably go out of their way to… Continue Reading...
Students exhibited behaviors that reflect the symptoms of each of these disabilities. This English class was a co-taught general education class since the students with special needs were not pulled out from the rest of the classroom to undertake the class in a different location. Different learning activities were utilized by the teacher based on the students individualized educational plans (IEPs). Some of these activities included reading and writing exercises, color coding, and breaking down different tasks.
The subject matter taught in this classroom was Vocabulary, which would help enhance students mastery in reading and writing in English. Lesson objectives included to promote students’ understanding of advanced vocabulary words, to enable students identify… Continue Reading...
Journal Entry 3
Individualized education programs (IEPs) and 504 plans are both designed to help students with special needs. Both of these methods ensure that all students have equal access to school resources and opportunities for learning and maximizing their potential. 504 plans are more global in scope, although both the IEPs and 504 plans impact how administrators and teachers operate. Students with IEPs have specialized, individualized instructions, whereas the 504 plan applies more broadly to accommodations that can be made,… Continue Reading...
age, emotional development, ability level, learning styles, and social development of the students for whom it is selected?
Selecting materials for students with special needs
In order to have meaningful material for students with special needs, there are special considerations that need to… Continue Reading...
justice. Increased awareness of how developmental or psychological disabilities impact learning, or how students with special needs can receive the best possible education has also led to legislation that requires the public school system to serve all students with equal consideration. As Lopez-Alvarado (2017) points out, the purposes of education include an exploration of the issues to share information that can improve educational practice with social justice goals in mind.
The principle of respect is important at every stage of education research and practice. Just as it is categorically wrong to deceive research participants, it is also unethical to place research subject in… Continue Reading...
