I have some of my students who are only in gen. ed. classes with me as a co-teacher. Keeping in mind that goals and ob. should provide a way for my student to access gen ed. curriculum, would it be better to give g/o based on (getting homework turned in, asking for help, etc.) or based on (reading skills and writing skills) the reason i am asking is that many times specific reading and writing skills are not addressed in the gen. ed. classroom, so should i focus more on getting them to get the work done so that they can succeed in the gen. ed. room? please let me know!!!!
Re: goals and objectives for inclusion/cotaught
hmmmmmm- they don’t acutally teach reading in the later grades- the ideq i that you get i by grade 2 and if you dont (like apparently 38% of American fourth graders) too bad buster!- our school district is pretty fond of whole language-so was pretty useless for my kid-I think that some disorganiation is prt and parcel of alot of LD’s- - it does seem to me that you ought to (and maybe not you specifically) needs to get on the stick with teaching kids HOWto read- the homeword issues and all seem rather secondary.
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It depends what you mean by “succeed”. If you think a child “succeeds” by leaning on someone else and having all kinds of support doing the homework for him, well, do it. If on the other hand you think that a child might succeed by actually learning some skills and doing some work for himself and carrying those skills on to the future, then teach skills. What was that line about fish again?
makes sense
I guess I was have trouble coming up with g/o when in gen ed. specific goals such as: he will read at a fourth grade level and the student is in 7th grade. Yes, I am getting goals from other teachers like this! As I write this, there is no program except Wilson for teaching specific reading skills. The school I work at is currently finding reading programs for next year. I personally would rather write reading g/o but I was worried a reg. ed. class room would not be able to meet these goals. I am a teacher in Virginia where SOLs (Standards of Learning) dictate when and what Iteach. In Language arts, most of my time is spent teaching the SOL material and I squeeze some time to teach reading strategies. I am really hoping that we will have reading progams, such as read naturally that will address other issues that I cannot cover in my language arts class. Well, thanks for everyone’s frankness, and I hope to hear more!!!!
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I find that remediation issues are not dealt with in the general ed classrooms. Those that are IN the gen ed classrooms should have been taught how to read and write, thus your goals would be in the line of what you have just said – advocating for themselves, organization etc… The children that are pulled out are the ones that should have reading/writing remediation.
why would you not address specific reading or writing skills in the classroom (or did i misunderstand?)
i would think that if the child’s learning takes place solely in the gen ed class, it is imperative that you have specific educational goals and objectives in order to measure academic success.