This quarter I am venturing into my field of choice, special education, my goal: to become a special education teacher who provides inclusive services to high school students with intellectual disabilities .
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| image of and empty classroom. The classroom has desks a flag and Television |
My program would have kids with intellectual disabilities included for English, History, and Science and elective with modifications and support. They would be doing work that is connected to what the other students in class are doing modified to their level.
My students would have math and life skills in a special education class that I would teach. I say math because some of my students might need life skill math. The math would be temporary I would reach out to general education math teacher with the hope of having students with intellectual disabilities included. I would try to offer life skills for general education students because all kids need to learn life skills, Life skills would be one period.
A lunch time sandwich shop which students with and without disabilities would get work experience,
Office Aids and on campus jobs for my students.
A chance to participate in sports and plays or anything else that students are interested in.
Homework every night to reinforce learning concepts.
Special Olympics practices that would be healed AFTER SCHOOL once a week and compete in the community program.
Independence jars where students can do things both at school and in the community and then get tokens to earn for their jars.
Presumed Competence
Fun club which would take place monthly. Students with and without disabilities would be invited to do fun things in the community. Events would include activities in their communities. This would be done after school.
Lofty goals and high expectations.
My main goal for my students would be to learn and have fun. (in that order)
Who knows as I go through my teaching maybe I will add more things to this list. One thing that will not change in my mind is inclusion in core subjects. I am a die hard inclusion fan for life.
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| My high school graduation photo. |
3 comments:
Thank you for contributing to Blogging Against Disablism Day! Your ideal classroom sounds like an amazing place. The very best of luck to you on this new adventure!
Your ideal classroom sounds amazing, and I wish you luck - we need all the good, inclusive teachers we can get. (Says a former Kindergarten teacher, who still cherishes all the little pictures of me in my wheelchair that students would randomly draw.)
This is a great post. I attended a mainstream school for secondary education (there were few other students with disabilities, none iwht my kind of disabilities). For most subjects, I did well without modifications, but for those I needed modifications for, I appreciated it if the teacher had my classwork be connected to that of the other students.
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