Hello,
I was hoping someone could help me with a question I have.
If you have a collabrative first grade classroom, that has 1 general education teacher, one aide and a special education teacher. Is it required to have that special education teacher in that class all the time?
My school district is saying that the special education teacher will only be in there part of the day, she will spend 1 hour in the collabrative kindergarten, then abd hour in the first grade and back and forth all day.
Is this a usual procedure with collabrative classrooms?
Thanks for any advice
Jackie
Re: inclusion
This is a practice that many school districts are moving toward. If the student’s needs can be appripriately met within that 1 hour of direct service and the continued srevice of the assistant and the genreal education teacher, then 1 hour is appropriate. If the studetn needs more time then perhaps a different setting would be more appropriate.
Incllusive classroom
:) The law states that a teacher or an aide be present in the inclusive classroom. It depends on the percentage of time that is on the IEP as to the amount of time the special ed person stay in that room for the children in there. Besides, inclusion should only be for students that are close to grade level; self-contianed should be for those who need remediation and they should get it and then be placed in the inclusion classroom and then, amazingly enough exit special education if at all possible. I notice that your child qualified for services with deficiencies in language and reading. He should be placed in regular education classroom for math anyway if at all possible without a special education professional in the classroom. :o
Its the IEP
It all boils down to the IEP. If that’s general — says the student will be in the general ed class and “get help” — and doesn’t specify when the help will be available, then schools can legally provide minimal “help” and spread that teacher pretty thin. And if it’s remediation that’s needed, that needs to be specifically addressed so the “special education” isn’t the ol’ band-aid approach of helping the kid survive the day.
Schools do amazing things to spread their resources — unfortunately the victims are the teachers and the kids.
The obvious question is: what need is the special ed teacher and/or aide meeting? Is that need present for just part of the day or all of the day? Can the teacher and/or aide meet the needs by being in the classroom part of the day?