01 Apr Write paper in which you will summarize the varying elements and factors that contribute to a child’s placement in an appropriate special education program
View this short video about the continuum of special education services for school-age students with disabilities: San Juan Unified School District (2018) Special Education overview– Continuum of Services (1:31).
Beside student achievement towards the standards, unfortunately, other factors often play a role in special education services. View this video: ColorinColorado (2016) How culture may impact behavior in the classroom. (A human-captioned version with transcript is also available.)
Assignment 1 – 1 ½ pages
This partial anecdote is retrieved from Consider Culture Before Referral of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students for Special Education Services [Farnsworth, M. , (2016) ColorinColorado.org].
What would you do if a colleague of yours approached you in the staff lounge ten minutes before school started. She exclaims, “Rosa just isn’t getting anything. I’m a bit frustrated because she’s been here for two and half years, and I think she has a learning disability. I know the complications with standardized assessments, so I can’t rely on those. What should I do? How can I teach her?”
What did you learn about different kinds of culture and explain the impact that culture can have not only on a child’s experience in school but on how teachers interpret and evaluate that experience?
What other components have historically played a role in special education classification?
Assignment 2 – 3 pages
write paper in which you will summarize the varying elements and factors that contribute to a child’s placement in an appropriate special education program.
Be sure to include:
· the continuum of services
· the Least Restrictive Environment and
· socio-economic and racial disparities in special education classification and placement
Please be sure to include the following components in your work:
· use resources from the course,
