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Have You Encountered In The Inclusion Setting And/Or What Challenges Do You Anticipate?

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Inclusion is defined as bringing diverse students, families, and educators together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging and community (Salend, 2011). Inclusion helps in bringing differences together and showing how it can be beneficial for all. Inclusion works best with the right supports: proper training, adequate funding, support in the classroom, and a strong sense of communication among all professionals and parents. Professional development should be a continual assessable tool for teachers, and staff members. Inclusion can be successful if a positive behavior model is implemented and it emphasizes routines, clear expectations, and proper supervision (R. Nelson).
My thoughts on "inclusive education" …show more content…

Being in a classroom where students are different in so many ways welcomes the opportunity for students to grow and develop character. It teaches all students to have compassion and patience.
d) What challenges have you encountered in the inclusion setting and/or what challenges do you anticipate?
Inclusive setting place great importance on creating opportunities for students to learn and be assessed in a variety of ways. As a teacher, I must be highly adaptable and consider a wide range of learning modalities; visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, in designing and delivering instruction. Inclusive classes may require more than one teacher. Teachers and students may require specific technology to help students with disabilities perform adequately. Some students’ mental health needs may go past what a general education school can deliver (Adams. C). While normalization is important, placing kids with disabilities in general education settings may not be in the best interest of the child when the classroom is not set up to meet the student’s needs. Student needs should take high priority when considering placement. In my second-grade classroom of 25, I have 5 known special education students, and it can be difficult for the classroom teacher and I to give the individual time and attention to each student that may requires and deserve. On occasion, the lead teacher and I are focusing on the special needs students, and the students who need a more challenging environment can be overlooked because they are able to do the work with minimal assistance, which can lead to them becoming bored and/or distracting other

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