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njamesd
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 Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject: Special Education in Public Schools |
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For those of you who teach in public schools, is there a special education department in your school? Are the students integrated in the classes or kept separate? Just wondering what other schools are like.
My school has a special ed department but the kids are in their own classroom all day. I'm curious if this is the norm or if my school is different than the rest.
Also, has anyone been asked to work in or volunteered in the special ed classroom? If so, what types of activities were you able to do?
I am trying to volunteer in the classroom once a month or so for this next school year and I'm looking for any advice or experiences from others I can get.
Thanks in advance for any replies. |
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ticktocktocktick
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| There are a few kids in my middle school who just attend regular classes. They just sit in silence all day long from what I can gather. I'm told that there are special schools for them to go to, but the parents have made a choice to keep them in regular school. |
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Cerberus
Joined: 29 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Special Education in Public Schools |
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| njamesd wrote: |
For those of you who teach in public schools, is there a special education department in your school? Are the students integrated in the classes or kept separate? Just wondering what other schools are like.
My school has a special ed department but the kids are in their own classroom all day. I'm curious if this is the norm or if my school is different than the rest.
Also, has anyone been asked to work in or volunteered in the special ed classroom? If so, what types of activities were you able to do?
I am trying to volunteer in the classroom once a month or so for this next school year and I'm looking for any advice or experiences from others I can get.
Thanks in advance for any replies. |
there's a special ed dept in my school. There are 2 special ed Korean teachers that deal with the small group of kids in this dept and they are kept separate from the rest of the students. They have their own special classrooms (2). They seem to have their own curriculum, etc.
When I was being given an initial tour of the school I was told these were "unintelligent" students, or something like that, but that was simply because they didn't know the term "Special Ed" in English. I quickly figured it out on my own. The Special Ed kids in my school do a lot of baking. The stuff they bake is often amazing (great bread, cakes, etc)
if you can't speak good Korean, I strongly doubt you can be of much help/use with these students, no matter your good intentions. But ask.. I could be very wrong. |
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Sincinnatislink
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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I taught 3-4 kids who clearly were autistic or had some related disorder and at least one kid who appeared to have Down's Syndrome.
They were in regular classes, and I was instructed to ignore them. |
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dirving
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Sincinnatislink wrote: |
I taught 3-4 kids who clearly were autistic or had some related disorder and at least one kid who appeared to have Down's Syndrome.
They were in regular classes, and I was instructed to ignore them. |
My co-teacher told me to ignore them. They constitute at least a third of the school's total number of pupils, and they're always fighting or yelling at each other before the co-teacher ends up whaling on them with her closed fists like mad. |
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