Special Education today in America

Special Education in America today is a great resource for students with exceptionalities.  This program allows struggling students the opportunity to stay on track with their classroom peers through smaller group interventions.  Personally, I feel that inclusion is a way to give some of these students more individualized attention.  Special education teachers need to be supported and properly trained to make inclusion time effective.  I also feel that removing students from the classroom may seem daunting to some teachers who may want to continue with their lesson, but overall the reason people go into education is to make sure that each and every child that comes through their door, leaves feeling successful and with a sense of belonging.  No matter where or by whom they received their instruction from.  In contrast, some students get put into this program, but not for the right reasons.  Some students struggle when it comes to focusing or motivation.  They truly do not have a learning disability, but the teacher does not always know how to get through to the student.

 As far as educators teaching to differentiated learners, I don’t always feel that happens.  Overall, I believe each teacher has good intentions, it just that many times teachers can get in such a rush with having to teach this and then test that.  Teaching to each student’s learning ability gets pushed to the side.  A huge part of differentiated lessons consist of the teacher being reflective and rechecking on how they could of done something different or going about it another way.  Teaching to each differentiated learner in the classroom is the challenge for every educator.  However, I do feel that an educator could have fun with this task also.  The teacher would always be looking into how he/she could break the lessons apart or how to make it more interesting to the students.  Differentiating instructions would keep the teacher and the students actively engaged.