Exceptionalities in the Classroom

As a teacher you will encounter many different exceptionalities and or disabilities in your students including: hearing impaired, visually impaired, autism, ESOL students, etc."An exceptionality doent necessary mean a student has a disability a student can be "Gifted" which means they excel in a certain area sometimes more than one. With "Gifted" students you still have to make your lesson where they benefit from it as well.Gifted" which means they excel in a certain area sometimes more than one. Being a proficient teacher means that you will have to make your lessons where every student can understand them inclulding your students with disabilities. In most classes today schools have what they call "Inclusion" which is where students with special needs are included in the classroom with the other students the majority of the day instead of being in a Special Education all day. I believe that inclusion really helps benefit the students both disable and not. It gives the children who don't suffer from a disability a chance to be around students who do and learn how to treat them and understand more about their disability. And it gives the student who has the disability a chance to be around a normal setting, a chance to learn from other students, and not feel left out.

MY I AM POEM

I am determined and beautiful
I wonder what my future holds
I hear encouragement
I see success
I want that success
I am determined and beautiful
I pretend that I've achieved all my goals in life and am already living the life I've planned for myself
I feel optimistic
I touch ALL my goals
I worry that I've set some of my goals to high for me to reach
I cry because sometimes the road to success is hard
I am determined and beautiful
I understand that faith without work is dead, so I work hard for the things I believe in

The Treasure Box!!!!!

One morning I wasn’t feeling very well and when I arrived to class Mrs. Windham informed me that she had just received her order of things to put in the students’ Treasure Box. I was sort of excited because I wanted to see what different kinds of things she had to put in the box, but I was in a sort of gloomy mood and the Treasure Box really wasn’t anything that I would do flips about. This is where children come in and one of the reasons I want to be a Elementary School teacher, young children get excited about the smallest of things and they can really changed your outlook on something. When class began Mrs. Windham informed them that she had received the new knickknacks for the Treasure Box. The whole class went wild!!! They started whooping and yelling like she had told them she was going to give each of them a million dollars. Their reaction to her telling them about it was nothing compared to the reaction she received while showing them all the new toys that were now in the Treasure Box. I have never seen a more excited group of children in my life!! I was both amazed and amused at how excited and happy they were about little toys like Poppers or even for a pencil with a colorful eraser. It made me wonder if when I was that age would I have reacted the same way. I remember this day because of the effect the students’ reaction had on me they really brighten up my day just with their happy faces about a Treasure Box.