The special education teacher is under a great deal of pressure with the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law which was recently passed by the government in 2002. Students with disabilities are now treated as if they are to know as much as students that do not have a disability of any kind. Schools that fail to meet the governments mandate of the NCLB are in danger of losing some of their government funding‚ are put on a “needs to improve” list‚ and are punished rather than helped out by the government
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Special Education: What is Special About it? Grand Canyon University: UNV 501 August 6‚ 2012 Special Education: What is Special About it? Aron‚ L.‚ & Loprest‚ P. (2012). Disability and the education system. Future Of Children‚ 22(1)‚ 97-122. Education of people with disabilities has not always been what it is today and this article reviews the history of special education and the process of getting it where it is today. I am interested in this article because it shows how society has come
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Special Education Student Interview Kellona Anderson EDU 521 Liberty University Dr. A. Smith Special education is defined as “specially designed instruction that meets the unusual needs of an exceptional student” according to Hallahan‚ D.‚ Kauffman‚ J.‚ and Pullen‚ P. (2012). The student that I chose to interview is currently age 25 and completed her special education program at the age of twenty-one. Due to the fact that the student was diagnosed as being mentally retarded at an early
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Bunker Elementary School. Mrs. Williams began her teaching career as a special education teacher before making the transition to becoming a principal. She is currently in her fourth year as principal of Theresa Bunker. Knowledge of Special Education Mrs. Williams has an extensive background in Special Education that is helpful in her current role as principal of a K-6 elementary school. Her knowledge of Special Education programs‚ laws‚ and instructional practices have been influential in her
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ESL 041 SUDHA CHAPPIDI CLASSIFICATION ESSAY TEACHERS Teachers in Taiwan enjoy higher occupational prestige and great job satisfaction.In Germany teachers enjoy teaching. Teachers in China are highly respected. Those within the Indian culture feel that teachers are next to God. American teachers believe that teaching helps society’s well-being. Teachers in England are poorly regarded. Teachers are constant companions and they mold student’s personality. They are role models and they
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Jeffrey McGurren Com. 103 March 4‚ 2004 Research Paper 1 "Face-to-Face Versus Online Education" Education is essential to the future of our society. Many adults‚ including scholars and teachers‚ are constantly searching for the best way to educate students today. Face-to-face education‚ being the genuine form‚ seems to be the first choice of many students. However‚ online education is becoming more popular and is being used more often at universities. Online courses are convenient for some who
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Realization of Special Education Being in a public school‚ I was around many types of people‚ but my first encounter with a special needs kid took me by surprise. I never truly understood why these kids talked the way they did or why they always got help. As I grew older‚ I also grew curious about these kids. I wanted to know why they had these disabilities and how it affects them with trying to learn. But in order to answer those questions I had to figure out what exactly special education was. Special
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say that special educational needs (SEN) came in use as a result of dissatisfaction: The term special educational needs began to come into use in the late 1960s as a result of increasing dissatisfaction with the terminology used in the Handicapped Pupils and School Health Service Regulations (1945)‚ which classified handicapped children into ten categories according to their main handicap. (Gulliford and Upton‚ 1992) The definition of SEN in the Education Act 1996
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Though special education has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 50 years‚ we are still seeing the effects of disproportionality. Disproportionality describes the phenomenon of overrepresentation of certain races and ethnicities in the special education programs in schools. For instance‚ African American and Amerindian groups have a much larger representation in special education programs when compared to their actual population size in the school. This overrepresentation for special education
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Special education only began when parent-organized groups started advocating for disabled children’s rights. Prior to this‚ disabled children were considered crippled‚ dump‚ mentally defective or feeble-minded‚ (J. E. Wallace Wallin‚ 1924). They were therefore excluded from education in public institutions. By 1975‚ more than half of disabled children were denied an opportunity to education. (William N. Myhill‚ 2004) However‚ during the 1950s and 1960s several parent-organized groups of advocacy
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