Special Education Reflection

220, we learned about assessing and supporting students with diverse needs, mostly English language learners (ELL) and children with special needs. In the ELL section, we were assigned a student who was identified as ELL and assessed them on their

Running Head: REFLECTION PAPER Reflection Paper En Tseh Wang Lehigh University      Special Education 332 (Education and Inclusion of Individuals with Special Needs) has been enlightening for me as a secondary mathematics educator. In the beginning of the semester, my feelings towards special education were those of apathy and insensitivity. I now understand that my feelings were due to my lack of knowledge and my judgment based on stereotypes

couple special education elementary classes. They brought me new insight on the special education world as I had never observed a special education classroom before. Being able to observe these classes helped me add resources and tools to my teacher toolkit and also allowed me to build relationships in my local school district. The school I observed in is an intermediate school. It holds students 4th- 6th grade. My initial observations were in a resource room located in the special education wing

In the beginning of June I had to decide on a school to observe. Before I was approved to observe a Special education classroom, I was not sure what kind of teachers or children I would encounter. On June 8, 2015 through June 10, 2015 I conducted my Special education observation at one of my neighborhood schools. Once I walked into Langston Hughes Elementary school, I felt welcomed and excited at the same time. I had an option to pick between four different classrooms, but when I met Mrs. Bell

class because in my high school, students with disabilities were not handled very well. They were treated exactly the same as every other student. This may be a good thing sometimes but each student needs their own needs and if a student needs a special version of a test, or needs extra help to succeed, it is important to give them what they need. My high school did not handle each student the way they needed to be handled. I am very open about disabilities and did not really have any biases. I love

observation, I was unable to identify the students in Ms. Heim’s class that had any exceptionalities. It wasn’t until one day that Ms. Heim was gone that I noticed a student, Eddie, had a behavior problem. Eddie was acting out and calling the special education teachers names because he did not want to go to the resource room for math. After discussing this with Ms. Heim the next day, I found out that Eddie does not like change. I also learned that Eddie has an IEP for behavior problems and learning

I enjoyed this 20-hour field experience, special education has always been a passion of mine. This gave me the opportunity to see first-hand what my future teaching job could look like. I noticed there was numerous amounts of paper work that must be filled out for each student that is in the special education classroom. There is also a lot of data scores that must be collected and used when determining a student’s IEP. Time management is very important when creating a daily schedule to meet the student’s

Mrs. Bates had been teaching for twenty years. She has worked at Highlands’s elementary school for nine years. She said in the school there are only two special education classroom which are self-contained and inclusion. She was explaining to me that the students at Prairie Hills junior high has more special education classroom. On May 18, 2017 I had the opportunity to sit in an IEP meeting with Mrs. Bates who is the inclusion teacher. The IEP meeting was held at Highlands’s elementary school in

RTI Reflection Paper When you research the word “exceptional learners” there’s a vast amount of definitions that represent this word. It includes ones traits, characteristics, behavior, abilities and or inabilities they posses. The fact that this definition is so broad educators found it difficult to specifically identify what disability a student had. At the same time variables that lie within ones disability hindered the degree in which traits would be shown. For that reason many students were

Reflections from Placement at Jemison Elementary During my placement in Jemison Elementary in Chilton County, I was placed in a Special Education classroom with four students, a teacher and a teacher’s aid. They students range in grade level kindergarten to second grade. They also had very different disabilities. The reason they were all put in that classroom together was because developmentally they all were within the same range of development of one other. One of the kindergarten students has