Special Needs

I really enjoyed the video on the special needs students. I have mixed feeling about inclusion. I believe that it should be up to the special needs student and their parent to decide if they want the child to be with regular classes. Some special needs students may not achieve his/her highest level of success in a full inclusion class while others may achieve great success. I think there is a lot that goes into this topic…money, time, teachers,

I agree with the teacher in the video, I think that I'm not ready to teach special needs students yet. I think all teachers need to have some training. There are so many issues that teachers face, some feel that inclusion is just more than they can handle. If full inclusion happens...support to the teachers needs to be available not only financially but physical help as well.

I feel that we need to start teaching our students to be accepting of each other. This is not to say that all students aren’t accepting. I think that we sometimes clump everyone together, even though we know that there are exceptions. I coach figure skating and my skaters had a competition in Phoenix, Arizona a couple years ago. After their competition was over for one of the days, my skaters stayed in the arena to cheer on the special skaters. They were so sweet, no one asked or told them to stay, and they all wanted to cheer on the skaters! I have never been so proud of my skaters

I Don't Know!

My bias is against people who aren’t willing to say I don’t know. We all know someone who is like this…a know it all! I know several people like this and it doesn’t matter if they are male female young or old…and it drives me insane!

I’ve had a couple interactions just within the last week. I have to be alittle vague just incase they read this phlog (I doubt they do but just to be safe and not hurt feelings) The first example was with a colleague, we were having a discussion and he thought that because he is a male and older than me he knew exactly what should be done and that everyone should do it because he said so…ugh! Next example is of this woman I know…only a few years older than me…who thinks she is qualified for a specific job although she has no credentials and little knowledge of what is truly required. But if you ask her a question, she makes her answer (even if its wrong) sound completely correct. Its aggravating because she never listens, never says I don’t know.

There is noting wrong with saying I don’t know….I’ll find out. There is something wrong when your not willing to find out the answer, that’s almost as bad as being a know it all.

My bias comes from when I was fourteen. My twin sister got injured very badly figure skating, it took her a year to recover. Her coach at the time, acted like he knew what he was doing, told her not to worry about not to see a doctor but to keep skating. It could have saved her a lot of pain if he had just said he didn’t know and sent her to a doctor. Arrogance is beyond disgusting.