Today in my field experience I had much more experience than I've had before this semester. I interacted a lot more with the students as the teacher in my classroom let me do tasks I had never done.
At first, she told me to staple some paperwork and while I did that I learned what the students were doing in class and what they would do on their next school semester as they were preparing for fourth grade. After that, she let me correct the student's practice tests, which was great. I felt like a real teacher correcting exams. It was math so I did it pretty quickly, but it was really nice from her to let me do that. At last, they had a quiz on skeletons and she let me help the special educations kids in the classroom, since it is an inclusive classroom. They could use their notes for their exams so I sat there and helped them with whatever they needed as I came to the realization that it is not at all hard for them to learn or behave, the hard part is grasping their attention so that they could do their quiz and look for the questions properly.
As I helped the special education students, I came to the realization that they all sat together in the same part of the classroom. It is an "inclusive" classroom but they are still in their own corner within the classroom. Not that they're apart from the rest of the students but they all know that those are the students with special needs. I asked the teacher about their impairments, and she couldn't respond. She said she believed that one of them had ADHD and another had Dyslexia but the rest she was not sure. I was very impressed by the lack of knowledge, since the whole point of special education is meeting the specific needs of the student according to their disability so as a teacher it is a bit obvious that one must know the disability and the needs of the child in order to help him/her.
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