Inclusion Vs Mainstreaming
Learning by Teaching and Increased Exposure in the Classroom
The idea of inclusion or mainstreaming has been around the education community for a long time. Both of these ideas involve including students with learning disabilities in regular classrooms to be taught by regular teachers rather than special education teachers. The difference between the two is that inclusion allows for a learning disabled student to be in a classroom for the majority of their day and mainstreaming allows or a learning disabled student to be in a regular classroom for a set amount of time if they have shown that they (the special needs student) can keep the same pace as the students in the regular classroom. Both inclusion and mainstreaming that include …show more content…
For example, a third grader who may have learned about his multiplication tables in second grade but was not strong in his English skills could be paired up with a second grader who understands the new English skills that are being taught in the second grade portion of the class but is not strong with the multiplication tables. The second grader could help the third grader with his English assignments and the third grader could help the second grader with her multiplication tables. This relationship would demonstrate "homines dum docent discunt," and would be a positive experience for both students. Their knowledge would increase in the subject each respective student is strong in and their competency would increase in the subject that they are weak in by social …show more content…
In a language class bringing in students from a lower level for a single class per week may impede their learning (the lower level students) since they have not necessarily been given the proper tools to comprehend what would be presented to them in the upper level class (Lauren Sack, Spanish instructor, Farmington High School, March 19, 2005). Sack, a Spanish teacher expressed her concern with the use of this type of learning in her class because it may confuse the lower level students who are slowly learning a language such as Spanish. The class time would be wasted by the teacher who planned the lesson but the lower level students may be able to recall the information that was presented to them when they actually reach that
The idea of inclusion or mainstreaming has been around the education community for a long time. Both of these ideas involve including students with learning disabilities in regular classrooms to be taught by regular teachers rather than special education teachers. The difference between the two is that inclusion allows for a learning disabled student to be in a classroom for the majority of their day and mainstreaming allows or a learning disabled student to be in a regular classroom for a set amount of time if they have shown that they (the special needs student) can keep the same pace as the students in the regular classroom. Both inclusion and mainstreaming that include …show more content…
For example, a third grader who may have learned about his multiplication tables in second grade but was not strong in his English skills could be paired up with a second grader who understands the new English skills that are being taught in the second grade portion of the class but is not strong with the multiplication tables. The second grader could help the third grader with his English assignments and the third grader could help the second grader with her multiplication tables. This relationship would demonstrate "homines dum docent discunt," and would be a positive experience for both students. Their knowledge would increase in the subject each respective student is strong in and their competency would increase in the subject that they are weak in by social …show more content…
In a language class bringing in students from a lower level for a single class per week may impede their learning (the lower level students) since they have not necessarily been given the proper tools to comprehend what would be presented to them in the upper level class (Lauren Sack, Spanish instructor, Farmington High School, March 19, 2005). Sack, a Spanish teacher expressed her concern with the use of this type of learning in her class because it may confuse the lower level students who are slowly learning a language such as Spanish. The class time would be wasted by the teacher who planned the lesson but the lower level students may be able to recall the information that was presented to them when they actually reach that