Special education is full of legal aspects, paperwork and testing. There are many precautions to take as a special education teacher in order to protect yourself and the students that you work with. Common Core has been a hot topic for many years, and has a huge impact on students with disabilities. Teachers, parents and students have a variety of opinions about the standards. Some teachers are very confident in teaching the curriculum of Common Core, and believe that it is the best “plan of attack” for their students to learn successfully.
While many regular classroom teachers are all for Common Core, it is a popular trend that most special education teachers throughout the United States are not fully on board. “Though most Common Core goals are abstract and schematic, collectively they constitute a one-size fits-all approach that, in practice, has severely straightjacketed America’s special-needs students (Beal 2014).”
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The curriculum restricts students to standards beyond their academic abilities, while in turn lowers their achievement. This is frustrating for everyone involved, including parents, who do not understand why their student in the resource room is being tested on the abilities that everyone is aware that he or she has not obtained. Many parents of students with special needs would rather have their child learn life skills that are necessary to life after high school versus facing the pressure of standardized testing that sets their student up to fail. It takes special education students 30 to 40 more days to learn the same material that it takes a general education student. This is an example of how it is crucial that special education students get the help they need and deserve when following the Common Core curriculum (Beal