When people think about special education I think the most important question that pops into their head is, “Is inclusion effective?”. I think this is the most important question because not only does it affect children with special needs it also affects the typically functioning student. So even though inclusion affects everyone in school, the average person may not know what inclusion is exactly. The word inclusion can be a very frightening word to someone if they do not know much about it, so at the end of this paper I hope you will be able to come to your own conclusion about weather or not inclusion classrooms are effective.
Inclusion in school require a shift in the paradigm, instead of getting the child ready for the regular class, the regular class gets ready for the child (Tomko par 4). In an inclusion classroom there are a lot of things that need to be done in order to accommodate for a child with a disability. Some of the things that need to change in the classroom is the way the teacher teaches, different equipment needs to be available for the student with the disability, expectations of the student and keeping a list of what goals have been meet. The teacher may need to change the way they teach because the student may learn slower than the other children. The teacher also needs to have high expectations for the student to strive for, but low expectations when it comes to the activity that the child can perform. If the teacher does not teach to the students level then that student will not know what is going on. If they do not know what is going on then they have a tendency to act out in order to get the attention they want. The typically developing children and the teacher also have to adapt to having an inclusion teacher in the room. An inclusion teacher is a special education teacher that comes into a regular classroom for a few hours a day to make sure that the child with the special needs is doing alright. While he/she is in their they may also help a student that is typically developing just to give the regular teacher some extra help. In an inclusion classroom the teacher is the one that has to change the most, but it does effect the typically developing student also.
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I never really thought about how inclusion would effect the children in the classrooms without disabilities. I always assumed it would be more difficult on the child with the disability. However, now I can see from both sides. The children without disabilities need to be prepared also, inorder to make the inclusion go more smoothly. They need to know what to expect, and what to do and not to do around the child with a disability. That can be somewhat stressful on both children.
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