Special Education

I have always aspired to be a special education teacher. Being able to help students with exceptionalities follow their life-long dream is what I want to do. With being a special education teacher, there are a lot of requirements and responsibilities that we have to follow so that our students are receiving the best education. There are a lot of standards and principles that special educators are committed to and I have picked three that are important to me and that I want to follow. First is…

One of U.S. national trends is adopting a new method for deciding eligibility for special education: Response-to-intervention method (RTI). This model engenders a modification of teaching techniques, before referring the student to special services, and the student’s response to the intervention that will determine if the child will receive special education or not (Hallahan, Kauffman & Pullen, 2015). Though, the process could be long and delay the proper allocation of the students when they are…

into a special education classroom, it is extremely rare to see only one adult. Traditionally, when individuals think about the classroom setting, they think of the desks, the books, the students, and the teacher. Not many picture a classroom as having multiple adults in the room. These individuals are coming in and out throughout the day each at a different pace and frequency. It is very hard to keep track of all of the professionals and the services that each student requires. In a special…

One of the most complex issues in special education today is disproportionality. Approximately 13.5 percent of all students in schools K-12 receive special education services, however, minority students are receiving special education services at rates that are significantly higher (Disproportionality, 2008). There are higher rates of minorities being placed in special education compared to their counterparts. When focusing on African Americans, they compose 17 percent of all students in the…

To begin, “Special education’s purpose was to bring the performance of students with disabilities closer to that of their nondisabled peers in regular classrooms to move as many students as possible into the mainstream with appropriate support” (Kauffman, McGee and Brigham, 2004, p. 613). This theory had good intentions, yet like many other theories, it was taken to the extreme, leaving many special education students suffering in the general education classroom. Next, there has been…

Standards: Being a special education teacher, there are multiple roles to help students succeed in school. In diverse schools, special education teachers need to build a professional platform to help their students succeed. Special education teachers are held to ethical standards when it comes to the way they conduct themselves when working with students and their families. The Code of Ethics Principle (CEC) for Special Education Professionals has 12 principles that maintain special education…

don’t come out completely healthy, and those children need special help in their education. Don’t you wish to be that person that helps children mentally, emotionally,with their physical and learning disability? You want to be able to teach them and help them. Special education is an inspiring career and at The University of Texas at Brownsville has the program that will best prepare you to teach special education students. “Special education teachers work with individuals who have emotional,…

few people really understand the educational needs of students in special education. Some may have had a cousin in special education, or they may have volunteered at Special Olympics, or they remember the student with Down Syndrome. Few people really understood their elementary class when they were in school. With those experiences they think they understand special education and all that is involved. As we know, special education is an umbrella term for many different forms of educational…

Is special education racist? This is a question that, on the surface, may seem simple, however, it is a topic that professionals in the field of education have grappled with for quite some time. There is an array of supporters on both sides of the question, and both sides of the issue have evidence that they swear proves their stance on the issue right. The problem therein lies with the fact that it is no possible for both sides to be right, no matter how much evidence they are able to provide.…

assessing those skills. Edweek.org, a web page of news of special education progress argues, “Cameras in Special Ed. Classrooms a Complex Issue: A new Texas law requiring such cameras at the request of parents and teachers raises questions about cost, privacy, and even whether they'll help protect children,”(“Education Week”) This article explores the new experiments that doctors, teachers, and scientists are doing to demonstrate to parents with special children that it is important to give them…