I am a teacher ‘to be’ and I need some help. What methods of teaching, exactly, help emotional/behavioral students focus and do their work in the general education classroom? I would like info. on secondary English classrooms (in particular) or any subject, really, as long as it is for secondary ed. Thank you all very much in advance for your assistance! : )
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I teach 11th grade academic English. The important piece that will make inclusion work is having students in the class with the least amount of accommodations and have been remediated in both reading and writing. Also, teach the whole class using multi-sensory methods which will help all children learn. If you notice, I am teaching academic English, not basic and there is a reason why we did this as a special ed department. Why should we just expect our students to just do ‘basic’ work? If we are proud of our work in remediation, we should expect our students to do academic work. Another reason was that in your basic classes, you will find a number of regular education students that are bahavior problems and really are there not to receive an education but to cause disruption. The key to inclusion is remediation before placing a student in a good academic class and have high expectations as well as expecting the student to take responsibility to doing projects and homework. The teachers, general and sped, have to also be knowledgeble about the subject and both teach the class so that both will have respect of not only the general ed students but the sped students. Other accommodations that students shouldn’t have in inclusion classes are read and clarify directions because this is done in the class for all students and small group testing. It is not fair that the students shouldn’t have regular ed teachers’ help on the test since it is they who usually make up the test. Also, we have group tests, how would you do that is they were in another class. Inclusion should be for those high school sped students that are working on monitoring for the senior year, which should be the goal for all sped students. Life after school is not about accommodations.
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Thank you for your insight, I, also, am going to teach English. Thanks again for your input!
Re: Inclusion In General Ed. Class
I have dual roles in the educational system at the secondary level. I am a full time Speech Pathologist plus a parent of a child with dyslexia and ADD. My son was tested by a neuropsychologist last year, complete with goals/objectives, and accommodations for him to be successful in the classroom. I am thankful that I am a Speech Path. and am able to help him. He knows the accommodations are there for him, however I have taught him his own personal strategies that make him more successful in the classroom setting. English is tough for him due to his dyslexia. But he is learning to work with it and so far has a B. Don’t know that I answered your specific question..feel free to email any others yo may have.
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A whole lot of consistency, reasonable expectations that the student perceives as achievable and worth doing (usually “regular”), and no humiliation.