Scholarly Journal

While I was doing research for my paper I found a scholarly article about teachers had to say about inclusion. It gives some pros and cons. People who support inclusion say that there are many benefits. If the child’s disability is mild the education impact for them in a regular classroom is substantially greater than being placed in a special education room. Inclusion classrooms give students a diverse learning environment. By having a diverse learning environment it helps prepare the students for a diverse community. By being with their peers it also helps them to realize that not everyone has a disability. Even though the pros help the students in the future, the negative aspects of now discourage a lot of people from supporting inclusion. The general education teachers are not trained to work with children with special needs. The teacher can not provide enough attention to every student. The students get less education because the teacher has to teach slower to make sure every student understands. The teachers have to deal with more students acting out because the typically developing students are board and the child with special needs is also board because they may not understand what is going on.
It also talks about some of the challenges that educators may face. It gives the results of the survey that the teachers took and then it discusses what they found. At the end of the article it informs you of what the limitations were. That way you know exactly how they received the results that they did.