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
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