When students grow together in an inclusion classroom and respect learning diversity can help separate the divide that might have once existed between students. Inside the classroom is where students learn how to grow as individuals and as learners. To be an effective special education teacher, it’s important for the teacher to hold themselves and their students to the high standards that one wants to achieve. In order for the students' to succeed to the expectations that teachers hold them to, teachers need to focus on their own teaching achievements. There are specific attitudes and methods that connect with one another that helped mark my own personal teaching achievements. When working with students in the special education classroom and the general education classroom it is …show more content…
The way that teachers can continue to push themselves in their own classroom is through their own professional goals that we set for ourselves. We set these individual goals to help ourselves continue learning about our own strengths and weaknesses in our own teaching. We use our own strengths to create individual goals to help improve our weaknesses to better educate our students. The same concept should be in place with our students. It’s important to push students out of their comfort zones because this is when the students' will tap into different interests and skills that were once unknown. I believe that holding high expectations to students and seeing results can be done through building upon the student’s strengths that he or she has. If students are interested in a specific topic in a subject that a student may struggle with, the teacher can build upon the interest to help develop high expectations for the student. The teacher can incorporate the student’s strengths into different lessons to help the students explore and see the subject matter in a different way. This can take place in any subject matter, such as reading. If students are interest in