What are the two most challenging issues that they deal with in regards to special education or with student 504's?
My first concern is making sure that we are meeting all student accommodations. Sometimes that can be challenging for teachers because of all the other requirements teachers must meet on a daily basis. Teachers must have knowledge of each students accommodations from the IEP at a glance or the 504 plan along with other differentiation strategies that they must implement on daily basis to meet the need of all students.
My second concern is ensuring that we are in compliance. The law states that we must provide instruction that meets each students IEP or 504 plan. This year that has become a little more challenging for our teachers because resource students have been placed in regular class settings with an inclusion teacher. That means that there are more students in the classroom that require special accommodations. In some cases the class sizes are over 30 students with almost half the students requiring accommodations. Therefore, it is extremely important that our Exceptional Children's Department work very efficiently to ensure that our students are getting their appropriate accommodations to help the students meet their goals and be successful this school year.
With accomodations rising concurrently with class sizes and the number of teachers being cut, how does a school remedy this problem, with the threat of legalities looming? Sometimes there are not solutions to an imperfect system.
ReplyDelete30 students..with half of the class having mods...what a daunting task. It's hard to be an administrator and ensure compliance with those numbers.
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