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It seems a special education class looks like a regular class. A special education classroom is set up with books, calendars, decorated walls representing sight words, children's progress in work posted, and to my surprise - color coordinated. A special education classroom is surrounded by learning centers that help students with specific needs such as reading and writing. In these classrooms a special educator provides constant and consistent provisions for the students needs in a curriculum. Take Mrs. Ruiz for example who teaches 5th grade. Mrs. Ruiz has 4 groups in her class. One group works on a reading assignment as another group reads in a learning center. The other two groups get extra attention between Mrs. Ruiz and Mrs. Matos ( an ESE teacher or paraprofessional). They work with them for 15-20 minutes on the same topic, but with more elaboration. Then the group switches. This is great, because it made it difficult to tell which student is labeled with special needs.
I found it comforting to know that each child will get the extra attention needed, making the students with special needs not feel excluded from the other students. This is what an inclusion school looks like.
I found it comforting to know that each child will get the extra attention needed, making the students with special needs not feel excluded from the other students. This is what an inclusion school looks like.
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