Field Response Journal, Part I

Question 5: I did my feild study in a special education class. I saw many different examples od inclusion While I was in that classroom. Not only because it was a speical needs classroom but because of the way the teacher was able to help all of the students in the ways that needed it. There was one student that had a hard time counting money, so he was able to work on that just by its self for about 20 min. He had a workshet that told him what to count out and he also had play money so he could be hands on with the money. I beleive that accomidations do need to be met in the classroom. Students need to be able to learn to the best of their ability. If they need something to help them do that then we as teachers need to be able to provide that. We need to get to know all of our students so that we know what we need to do. At the same time we need to make sure they are learnig what they need to as well.

Question 6: There are differences in the classroom, the way that i see that it is being addresses and handled is that all of the students work together. They are not seperated into differernt groups. They are working in groups together just like they are all the same. I think that it is important to aknowledge that they do have differences. That they do have different race, religon and so on becuase being different is a good thing. We are all different and we all have our own culture. Being an educator we need to find ways to explore this with our students and teach about different cultures so that our students dont look at it as being werid. That they look at it as something that is exciting and want to learn about it as well.