emc2teach

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Special Ed classrooms

I was interested to hear about the BD/LD classroom today in class. I really have never had to be with students with disabilites throughout my previous school, or have I observed them in a classroom. I understand that it would extremely difficult to be in a classroom with several students and to try and get them all to be on task throughout the day. I could not even imagine having hte whole class disruptive and having to change my way of teaching several times during the day. To have to change your pedagogy almost every year or even maybe several times during a year would be mentally straining. Knowing my personality, I would be frustrated too quickly and it would take a lot of self-control to stay calm and collected in a classroom like that. To have students falling out of their chairs or laying on desks is so hard to even imagine, I don't know what I would do. I guess the only possible way to continue with class is trial and error. I would have to start with one idea and one behavioral chart and see how that works out. If it works out, great. I'll keep doing it. If it doesn't work, then it is back to square one and it would be time to develop another plan. In a way, my pedagogy for a special education classroom would be pragmatism. "At first if you don't succeed, try and try again." I would imagine that is the only way to keep somewhat of an order in the classroom, especially the order of your mind. It takes a very strong person to teach in a special education classroom and I envy them very much.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home