I am in my sixth year of school earning my teaching degree. I have had quite a few classes specifically about having kids with special needs in your class room, the importance of giving them the least restricted environment for their education, and what goes on in the special education classrooms. We have also been properly educated on hundreds of different disorders, disabilities, or pasts and how to help them in the classroom. The people who have decided to continue school to get a masters degree in special education are people I have high respect for because that would have to be the most difficult you can have in the teaching field in my opinion. Not only is the classroom itself more challenging, but the states push special education to the side so often. No Child Left Behind does not separate special education classrooms from the same standardized testing as the rest of the school. That just adds on to the difficulty of the job. I, myself, am a semester away from starting student teaching, so I have never had a classroom with a special needs student, so I am sorry I got no experiences in that regard. But I have worked for the mental health center here for 3 years now, and so I have a lot of experience just being around children with a variety of conditions. I have seen how hard these kids have it in school when they are constantly made fun of right in front of them like they don't understand. Proper education is declining for them because so many don't seem to care. That pretty much assures them that they will not have a chance to succeed in any possible way. So many just assume they won't be able to function in society, that they aren't even willing to give them the chance.
If it isn't too personal, is there a reason why you picked the League School of Greater Boston? Is that where you attended?
I am in my sixth year of school earning my teaching degree. I have had quite a few classes specifically about having kids with special needs in your class room, the importance of giving them the least restricted environment for their education, and what goes on in the special education classrooms. We have also been properly educated on hundreds of different disorders, disabilities, or pasts and how to help them in the classroom. The people who have decided to continue school to get a masters degree in special education are people I have high respect for because that would have to be the most difficult you can have in the teaching field in my opinion. Not only is the classroom itself more challenging, but the states push special education to the side so often. No Child Left Behind does not separate special education classrooms from the same standardized testing as the rest of the school. That just adds on to the difficulty of the job. I, myself, am a semester away from starting student teaching, so I have never had a classroom with a special needs student, so I am sorry I got no experiences in that regard. But I have worked for the mental health center here for 3 years now, and so I have a lot of experience just being around children with a variety of conditions. I have seen how hard these kids have it in school when they are constantly made fun of right in front of them like they don't understand. Proper education is declining for them because so many don't seem to care. That pretty much assures them that they will not have a chance to succeed in any possible way. So many just assume they won't be able to function in society, that they aren't even willing to give them the chance.
If it isn't too personal, is there a reason why you picked the League School of Greater Boston? Is that where you attended?