The Impact Of Cultural Diversity On Special Education

This is a Summary about my personal Philosophy of Special Education. I will be giving my thoughts on the Purpose of schooling, Nature of Learners, Curriculum, Instructional Methods, Classroom management, Assessment practices and Professional relationships with family and community.

Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.

“One of the essential roles of special education teachers is coteaching and working with other professionals, as well as communicating with family members and between special education teachers and other school-related professionals(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. 114)”. With the importance of a least restrictive environment special education and general education teachers are working together in a classroom with varying levels and abilities of learners. It is vitally important to have an effective relationship between the two teachers while developing and implementing lesson plans for learners with special needs. The physical space and dynamics of the classroom should fit the needs of the students and the established procedures should ensure a highly functional environment. Importantly, educators need to communicate to families “encouragement about what they can do at home and about an effective plan for providing instructional supports for their child(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. 114)”.

The special education teacher interviewed, talked about this goal to meet each child’s need is challenging to her especially in eleventh and twelfth grade. The teacher tries to strive towards their educational goals, their need areas, and work on their strengths.

This course has such impact knowledge about exceptional students. It helps teachers who choose to be in special education field understand most common categories that students have, and what kinds of teaching strategies teacher shuld use to able teach them.

How will you differentiate or adapt your lesson to meet the diverse needs for EL, special needs, and academically underachieving or high achieving

Disproportionality refers to the overrepresentation or underrepresentation of a minority group within special education programs and services. The disproportionate representation of minority students in special education has been an ongoing and significant matter in education for decades. More and more minority children are being identified as disabled or having an intellectual disability or learning disability. However, in most cases the children are being misdiagnosed and consequently, are being discriminated and penalized in a variety of ways. Some of the leading causes of disproportionate identification are incorrect evaluations, poor assessment practices, and lack of instruction and assistance for minority students. Developing a

Many special education students struggle to learn the curricula material when the information is organized and expressed by standard strategies and through general special education programs. However, customizing lesson plans and teaching strategies according to the particular needs of each individual student can help motivate each student to thrive and finish school. The customized plans can enable the students to more effectively comprehend the information, become engaged by the course material, and remain encouraged by the improved test scores. The customized lesson plans should also include strict attendance and scheduling procedures to help enhance the stable atmosphere of the educational experience and to help monitor the progress of the students (Allensworth and Easton, 2007). Additionally, another strategy that can reduce the dropout rates is to maintain close relationships with the parents. Ensuring that the teachers establish positive relationships with the families can enable the parents to understand the needs of their children, the tactics being implemented by the teachers, and help the parents encourage their children to remain focused and enthusiastic about the courses. Thus, schools can help reduce the dropout rates of the students by customizing lessons in ways that are most conducive for each individual student

As a teacher, I would enhance the learning of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills of individuals with exceptional learning needs, and increase their self-awareness, self-management, self-control, self-reliance, and self-esteem. Moreover, special educators emphasize the development, maintenance, and generalization of knowledge and skills across environments, settings, and the lifespan. Special educators possess a repertoire of evidence-based instructional strategies to individualize instruction for individuals with exceptional learning needs. Special educators select, adapt, and use these instructional strategies to promote positive learning results in general and special curricula2 and to appropriately modify learning environments for individuals with exceptional learning needs. They enhance the learning of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills of individuals with exceptional learning needs, and increase their self-awareness, self-management, self-control, self-reliance, and self-esteem. Moreover, special educators emphasize the development, maintenance, and generalization of knowledge and skills across environments, settings, and the lifespan.

I am Laderka Coats, a resident of Belzoni, Mississippi located in the Mississippi Delta. I currently serve as an outstanding sophomore, at the great institution of higher learning, Mississippi Valley State University. During the fall of 2015 I will begin my reign as Miss. Junior 2016-2017.

In our school system many of our students need to enroll in a special education program (IEP) for one reason or another. A teacher has to know her student well in order for this process to take place. The teacher needs to be an advocate, and initiate the order of steps that will get this student into the (IEP).

Freedom Elementary is a Title I school with 99% of the students receiving free/reduced lunch. The entire school receives free breakfast and lunch. Sixty-nine percent of the students are minorities with African American students representing fifty-four percent of the population. Three percent of those students are homeless, two percent are ESL students, and eighteen percent are receiving special education services. The average student is almost two grade levels low in reading. These factors are crucial into closing the gap of students reading two or more levels below grade level. This plan will address the needs of Special Education students, English Language Learners, and the culturally diverse populations across grade levels.

After reading the first chapter of Introduction to Special Education, there was a lot of things that I learned. What this chapter focuses on is the cultures perspective on disabilities. It talked a lot about how disabilities are portrayed in the media, and how language makes a difference in how disabilities are portrayed. What I learned most about from this chapter is all of the rights that protect education. These rights include the EHA which is the education for all handicapped children, and the ADA which is the American with disabilities act. It even talked about the IDEA and its ensuing reauthorization. With the IDEA, it provided many statistics and information. It talked about injustice that had occurred before the passage of IDEA, and

As a special educator, my job has been to embrace diversity where the general education curriculum falls short, and to use it as a tool to develop strength-based approaches to learning. I have learned that students who

When the educators were asked to provide any additional comment on this topic, three of the educators did not provide any comment and other two educators provided some comments. These comments included emphasising the importance of cultural inclusion in Australian early childhood education setting (Appendix 9) and how the communication difficulty with CALD parents are linked to children's school readiness and transition to school challenges (Appendix 8).