My Interview With Special Education

The amount of people who live with disabilities is a controversial number. Depending on what law and diagnostic tools used, a person may have a visible disability, or one that may lie beneath the surface of his or her appearance. Some people believe that the term “disability” is merely a label use to hold back, or prescribe helplessness. Meanwhile, individuals who have been properly diagnosed with disabilities struggle to maintain respect and acceptance every day. In plain language, there is a lot of misunderstanding between people with disabilities and those without. It is firstly important to get everyone on the same page regarding the definition of disability.

For this assignment, I interview a service provider for special education services. The service provider I interviewed, takes part in the educational team, and provide services. The service provider is developmental therapist. I was able to develop a better sense of the importance of inclusion. After interviewing the service provider, and learning her philosophy of inclusion I have was able to better understand the accommodations and modifications for special needs students.

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry B. Adams. For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to play a big part in children’s education, which is why I have decided to enroll for an education course. I believe that educators have a lifelong impact on their students and on the development of resilience. Thus, I aspire to inculcate my love for learning into the next generation, by influencing and inspiring children all through their formal education.

The time is now to become a Special Education Teacher. I believe the best fit for my academic and vocational goals is the UWM Exceptional Education Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification Program.

My personal philosophy of special education drives not from teaching in the field, but from, observations, and personal experience, and the workshops I attended. I have had the opportunity to work with individuals with special needs in many different settings, all this help cultivate my knowledge in handling the needs of the special needed student. Special needs students have the ability to learn, to function, to grow, and most importantly to succeed. The difference comes into how they learn or how they need to be taught. There are as many beliefs about the "hows" as there are teachers and each of us forms our own philosophy through our experiences and research. As a student in a special education teachers’ program, learners with

One of the most essential aspects of the educational process is to know how to motivate students for learning. A challenging part of being a teacher is to know and learn how to motivate students. First of all, a good definition for motivation is as Byrnes quote “Motivation is construct

I interviewed a woman who has a child with special needs. The child is now in kindergarten. The mother reported having a normal pregnancy with no complications. This was the second child for the mother, who has another child who was five years old at the time. The mother disclosed that during the pregnancy, she was in the process of separating from the child’s father and that this caused a moderate level of stress. At the time of the pregnancy, the mother was also working full time as a waitress in a local restaurant. The mother reported that her job required her to be on her feet for long periods of time. She was able to work until around a week before her child was born. The mother reports that the child was born around two weeks

This past week I had the privilege to observer Mrs. Roer’s resource classroom. During my interview with Mrs. Roer I was informed on her duties and the different strategies she must use to accommodate the needs of the students. Mrs. Roer explained her role as a resource teacher is to provide special education student with a variety of learning strategies to help them in the classrooms, and to assist in any help with the lesson from classes. The need for a “study hall” or resource for special education student allows the students to receive extra help as they need it on an individual basis or in small groups. Mrs. Roer stated that the special education student were not able to receive the extra help in a regular study hall to assure they received

I interviewed Mrs. Berry, a special education teacher at Fordson High School on ford road, Dearborn. She was sitting eating her lunch while I was asking her my questions. The first question I asked her was, why she want to become a special education teacher? Her answer was that she likes to work very closely with her students. Working with special education students can be very challenging and interesting at the same time. This special group of students is very unique and everything a special education teacher can make out of those students can change their lives and is very rewarding, too. These students can come up with things that no one has come up with before. The rewards come from making progress where no one else has been able to make

In life we do not decide where we begin. Some of us our gifted at birth, with intellect,wealth, and health. While others such as I are not so fortunate. I was born with a disorder called Autism. This disorder made it so that I was different from other children. While most children could speak when they were two or three years old. It took me until I was five years old to speak. I also could not focus that well in school. As a child I did not enjoy doing school work. I prefered to do others things, such as Imagine things that I saw on television. Due to my autism and lack of focus,I placed into an autistic support class. Often as child I wondered, why was I different? Though I performed decently academically. I was still in an autistic support

The year was 1972 at Central High School in the small town of Bridgeport, Connecticut. There lived my father along with his sister, his mom, and his dad later to be known as my aunt and my grandparents. Knowing that my father lived in a completely different state as I live in now, I felt that interviewing him about his high school experience would be a smart idea as there could be major difference between high school in Connecticut and high school in New Jersey especially during that time period. Just after I started to interview my father (Barry Schnee), it was very evident that high school back then was definitely not the same as it was when I went. To begin the interview, I tried to get a good feel about my father's basic high school life

I believe that I would be a good candidate for the Non-Traditional Deaf Education Certification Program through Region 17 Education Service Center and Texas Tech University because I have the inner motivation to be a Deaf Education Teacher someday. This inner motivation of mine is too personal. I have a sister who is deaf and mute who quitted elementary school because her needs were not met in the general public school in my country. Additionally, my parents could not afford to send her to a specialized private school. She was older than me, but she was placed in the same grade level I was in, so she could be helped personally inside the classroom.

In 2004, my teacher sent me to obtain special educational support. As a fourth grader, I was extremely embarrassed when I had to spend more time than other students working on vocabulary, speech, and reading. For years, I would work one on one with public school teachers to improve my knowledge, thus becoming a stronger student. The help of these professionals paid off when I entered high school and was placed in all Honors classes. In 2010, I was finally equal to my peers when I suffered a severe concussion. Doctors at AI Dupont hospital unsure if all parts of my cognitive function would return. With the special assistance from doctors, occupational therapists, tutors, and educators, all cognitive function of my brain returned. Suffering from serious side effects of my concussion, I became a non-traditional student and attended private school, public school, and one year of

The private school which I have arranged interviews with does not have a Special Education teacher. I would like to make a suggestion for a substitute for this requirement. May I interview Mrs. Edmonds, who is both a certified teacher plus she has five special needs children in her care instead. She is very familiar with the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development of children with special needs. The children in her care have been diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome, cerebral palsy, cogitative delayed, and traumatic brain injury. Plus the children come from different social/economic and cultural backgrounds. She has dealt with special education teacher in both writing IPL’s and implementing these ILPs to meet the needs of

In the beginning of the school year, I demonstrated leadership by participating in a Special Education Field Day. Students aged from kindergarten to twelfth grade with mental disabilities came from all over West Texas to have a fun-filled day of running, jumping, cycling, and games.