Blog 4

Session 4:  Regular Education - “What are you doing to meet the needs of your special education students?   If you do not have special education students, how are you meeting the needs of your low students?  Have you met with your school’s pre-referral group about these students?”

My special needs students get extra support from paraprofessionals during every other class period. I allow them to do different assignments sometimes depending on their abilities. I also do modified assessments, simplifying questions or not requiring answers as in depth as my regular students. I try to chunk information and stop and check to make sure they are on task and understanding the classroom instruction. I had several students draw diagrams of the digestive system and label them during class and used this as their assessment. This was very helpful to these students as I feel they understood the material much better than if they had taken a written test since many of my students struggle with reading and have low lexiles.