Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Students with Disabilities
First of all I must start off my saying that the presentations these past few weeks have been not only great, but also very useful for us as future teachers. I just wanted to touch on a few points from the presentation that Mark and I gave regarding the Rights of Students with Disabilities. This subject is a very serious one that is not taken lightly, espeically by parents.I have to say that it requires a ton of patience to work with a student who possesses a disability. Last semester I worked with a student who was visually impaired in her physical education class. This task required not only patience, but understanding as well. I had the physical education teacher tell me numerous times that he did not have enough time to work with the student one on one in order for her to learn the required skills that are necessary for the class. Though he didn't mean to, he pushed this particular student in the corner a lot of the times because he could not neglect the rest of the class just to work with her the entire class time. He told me several times that I was a blessing to have because while I was working with the student he had enough time to help the remainder of the students. I just wanted to let you guys know that working with a student with a disability is going to be a hard task, but we must realize the situation of the student and do everything possible to give them the education that they deserve. It may be hard, but someone has to do it!
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Yeah Alison, we share the same sensitivity here. I had the opportunity to work with a class of all autisic children for a month and now fully understand the issue with patience. I was there to observe and interact with the children and found myself getting frustrated on many occasions. All Special Needs teachers deserve a large amount of credit because of the time, effort, patience, attitude and love they display on a daily basis. I will be honest, I would not last more than a month in a class full of autistic children. My patience would run out. However, in conclusion, we need to prepare ourselves for these types of situations because we all will face issues with children and disabilities.
Yeah, this is a touchy subject guys. I feel the dilemma of that P.E. teacher. We know we have to spend a great deal of time with special needs kids but since our time is limited we are not able to. On the other hand I feel bad for that student, not getting the attention they need because the teacher has the rest of the class to attend to. I have been an instructional assistant in a special needs classroom myself. Believe me; it takes a certain kind of person to teach special needs. There is a lot of pressure involved on the teacher. There is the issue of maintaining discipline in the classroom; formulating lesson plans; keeping a close watch on each student's IEP; along with having to have an unlimited amount of patience. I am looking forward to SPED 610 so I can hopefully learn how to combat issues such as that the P.E. teacher deals with.
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