The Effects of Inclusion on Mainstream Education

Inclusion is the act of placing students with disabilities into the general education classroom. Students are given the tools, time, and resources necessary to actively participate in all aspects of the general education classroom. Inclusion is not just adding a student with disabilities into the classroom, but genuinely including them as valued members of the classroom. Inclusion is not an easy system to put into practice because it requires a great deal of teamwork and cooperation between teachers, administrators, and parents. Positive Inclusion programs closely supervise the social and academic progress to ensure the students are thriving. When inclusion is done correctly, the teacher finds a way to meet the student’s needs in a way that is natural and unobtrusive. The resources and supports in an inclusion classroom benefit all students, not just the students with disabilities.

Special education- Special education provides students with disabilities with the support, resources, and services to help enhance their learning. Special education should includes the practices of providing various instructional, differentiated teaching, and different types of assessment in order to meet the needs of diverse learners and students with various disabilities. Special education should also include individualized assessment and planning as well as specialized instruction in order to meet the needs of individual learners. Special education should be individualized because every student learns differently. This means materials and curriculum may need to be modified in order to meet the needs of a student with disabilities. Special education should also involve collaboration between professionals, general education and special education teacher, the school district and parents in order to create a learning environment that bests fits the child.

There were many diverse aspects to this book. Most of this book is a recall from either the main character, or one of his students. This book is intended to open people’s eyes to see that in order to change the world we must first change ourselves. Being able to go through this story and see the mistakes, and the good decisions, teachers in Michie’s life have made, has taught me that the best way to teach is through love, justice, cultural empathy and imagination. Some of the points brought up in this book include the positive and negative sides of physical contact with a student, classification/stereotyping, race, gangs, police brutality/lack of justice, and children not being able to escape peer pressure.

Inclusion is the act of having students with disabilities and abled body students in the same classroom. In concept this has many benefits not only for the students but it also saves time and money for the school, however in practice I do not think inclusion works the way it was hoped to. Inclusion in theory will put light strain on the classroom because of safe guards such as helper teachers are in place to help out. In my experience these teachers are in the way most of the time when students are trying to learn, and students feel cheated when the special needs students are handed a supplemented test making the students feel bad. Lastly that the pros of inclusion in the classroom are set in perfect conditions with good teachers on both sides special education and general education, however most of the time that is not the case.

The majority of the “Freaks” do not always feel that they are worth much in the eyes of their teachers. Professors are more inclined to illicit discipline and less likely to offer guidance to those they wrongly feel are doomed for failure. Lindsay, although considered part of the Freak crowd, is an exception to this characteristic because she in fact feels like a big fish in a little pond. She has always received high marks on tests and was once a part of her school’s mathletes club. As a result she has been treated in a pleasanter way by facility at the school then some of her underachieving friends. Even the school’s guidance counselor makes a point to be involved in Lindsay’s life. Lindsay’s younger brother Sam encounters similar experiences in the school system. Because of Sam’s reputation as a nerd teachers offer him more guidance then other students. He is given more privileges within the school, such as access to the school’s tech room without an adult chaperone because of his role of being an academic “big fish.” Lindsay and Sam’s reputations within the school builds on teachers treating them with more respect, which creates a cycle of them continuing to outperform

1. What is “least restrictive environment (LRE)”? How is inclusion different from mainstreaming? The least restrictive environment is placing a child with disability in a classroom that has other children without disabilities. Mainstreaming is when a child with disability is in a regular classroom, but then transfers to a special classroom to accommodate their disabilities. Inclusion however, allows the child to be in a regular classroom for the whole day.

Discussion: Toni (clinician) reported that Timothy's transition to Mott elementary has been very good, he has adjusted and acclimated with his peers. Ms. William said that Timothy is happy with the school thus far. Ms. Willian informed the school officials about the bullying incident at PJ hill, and indicated that bullying triggers behavior. The school clinical (Toni and Jasmine) stated that they will be proactive and informed the team that the school has a fight against bullying group. Timothy is currently in a reward program at school and the school official reported that he has been earning it.

“School” reveals a scene of David Talamentez on his last day of the second grade in San Antonio, Texas. Because of his dyslexia, school did not always come so easy or naturally to David, and his teachers came with no help. He experiences many testing trials throughout the year, but David rarely wavers. David possesses an emotional maturity that few second graders, if anybody, has. Teachers constantly degraded him by writing phrase like; “Messy!”(25), “No!”(29), or “Write larger”(23-24) at the top his papers, failing to realize that David tried his best on those assignments. Rather than giving in and lashing out his teachers or fellow classmates, David kept his composure and knew that it would not be right to do that unto his teachers. David chose the alternate route and instead chose to take out his anger

It made me wonder how much was going on outside of the classroom and how much Mr. Marin did not know about these students. Becoming aware about these kids should go a long way and only benefit both the student and the teacher. This was something Mr. Marin was not successful at, at all. He really made no significant efforts to know who they were and if things such as social class or things at home were causing issues for them. In this film it seemed like a lot of these kids came from backgrounds where they don’t really have a lot of money or a lot of support from people in their home.

Everyday was the same with Thomas O’Brien at Lincoln Gifted Magnet School. He was practically the only kid who listened to anybody at his school who would benefit him. All the other kids teased him about how he was the teacher’s pet. He despised being called that. All he did was want to be the best in his class and to dilate his education. Thomas absolutely loved learning but all the kids called him a weirdo and a freak for it. Only his close friends, teachers, the principal, and other academic officials understood him. “Thomas is an extraordinary student!” as teachers would say. He liked to keep it that way. He didn’t like anyone including himself bragging about his “exceptional grades” or how he is so polite. What he unquestionably hated was people

The routine that the children showed gave new notions to Simmons, ones in which were more overarching and accurate. By Simmons understanding that her notions about the children needed to change, it helped her to show personal growth. Still, she forced to go along with the show anyways. Simmons did notice that “the [children's] questions [were] clearly pre planned” (144). To confront this, Simmons had to take risks and open up to the children. By opening up to the children it gave her a better understanding of what the children were going through at the school. This lets Simmons finally understand that her preconceived notices were false, and gave her the opportunity to change them. Her state of mind opened up to these new ideas, by this occurring she was able to show personal growth. Although, this personal growth was not extreme it was nevertheless, present and important. Overall, what Simmons learned from the children will help her to get rid of any preconceived notions she came into the country with, and stop her from creating any new

It just seemed as if it was yesterday to Michael, which his family was moving to Washington D.C for his dad’s job, and now there moving to North Carolina. Michael Williams is a young 14 year old boy who is from Idaho, because of his father’s job; he and his family are always relocating. They went from Idaho to Washington D.C and now they are headed to North Carolina. He is in the 8th grade, and once settled into their new home, Michaels mother Crystal enrolled him into Alexander Middle school. A week went by and he has all of his classes for the semester and he is used to his teachers already. Even though he is used to his teachers, Michael is tired of moving around, changing schools and starting over trying to make new friends. Michael likes this school but he does not like the students. Every class has a class clown and there’s a bully always bothering people and interrupting class. The bullies at this new school are on a whole new level. They interrupt the teachers when they are talking, kick the back of the other students chairs, make other students do their homework, hit the other students and scare the students who are shy and weak. Michael sits in the front of the class with the students that pay attention, so that he can feel safe and will not be distracted. Children should come to school with the ambition to learn, no child should be bullied or tormented by other students; bullies should have intense consequences when they try to trouble other students at school.

At first, he is often trivialized as daft, but quickly gains the respect of his students. Williams’ teaching style differs from the norm, which attracts the unwanted attention of other teachers at the school, who scorn Williams for breaking the culture of the school. Because this is a preparatory school, as opposed to a public school, the situational strength to conform to the norm is quite high, but Williams does not conform to a simplistic teaching style. Self-actualization is reached by specific characters who follow Williams’ character of a charismatic leader, who later rebel against the majority of the culture and seize the day, while Williams is banished from the school for threatening the established culture of the

Reflection is an important part of the planning process. “Ongoing learning and reflective practice is one of the five principles of the early years learning Framework” (DEEWR, 2010. p. 7). It gives the educators an opportunity to look at the planning process, the successful areas of planning, the areas of improvement and progress and to get motivated to work better for the learning of children. The following reflection will highlight the merits of implementing the inclusion improvement plan, some of the issues that impact on educators’ capacity to provide an inclusive care environment and how can the educators manage the competing demands of inclusion of children with additional needs, with the demands of providing an inclusive environment for all children.

Her worries geared more towards the lack of education teachers had about Down syndrome, the lack of funding, and the other students views on her child. Many of the teachers tried to convince her to put kellyn into special classes. Despite this, Mrs. Donahoe chose to keep her into the regular classroom. I think this was the best choice. Because once you don’t include a child it shows them that they are not the same, and that they are less. Even keeping her in a regular classroom, Kellyn still faced disclusion. On Friday’s kids with disabilities did not have to go to school. On these days students do things they can’t do when the special ed kids are there. Again, thus teaching that they are different and less than the other