The role of the school Board is to provide students with an education. In order to do this, the school board is divided into various departments, including: the directors office, curriculum department, human resources, finance department and physical plant department. Each of these departments plays a crucial role in the day to day operations of a school system. Currently, human resources is responsible for approximately 1000 employees, 650 academic staff and 350 support staff. Through an extensive interview with Paul Simpson, Administrator of Human Resources, we were able to analyze their current practices, noting what they did well and also areas that could use improvement.
My case Background, Students: Nathan; Cody, Ages: 11, Grade: 6th grade, 1st semester Case Scenario Nathan and Cody are 6th graders in Mrs. LoJacomo’s class of 25 students. The class has 13 boys and 12 girls. Three students in the class have identified disabilities and receive resource room support. Nathan is one of these students and has a specific learning disability in speech and reading. He receives 60 minutes of resource room support daily to address speech and reading goals.
Child with Special Needs Observation Report 1 By April Arevalo Child 68 October 1, 2010 General Information Hawthorne Elementary School 705 West Hawthorne St Ontario, Ca 91762 Inclusive Early Childhood Education Program that is government funded for preschool age children (ages 3-5). This school (program) in an inclusive classroom that has placed students with disabilities in a normal classroom; “Majority of my disabled children have a hearing impairment, down’s syndrome, or a suspected form of autism, but these children are taught in a regular classroom, and have the capabilities to learn basic knowledge as any other “regular” child in this room!” as Mrs. Kamaski puts it. Mrs. Kamaski’s 3-year-old class, who is the head teacher Ms. Sutton, co teacher (seemed to mainly work with the disabled students) Tracie, aid Christopher Age 3 The child I chose to mainly observe is a 3-year-old boy named Christopher. Christopher has long dark shaggy hair, warm brown eyes, medium brown skin, and appeared to be of Hispanic decent. He had a red shirt with blue jeans, and Thomas the Train sneakers.
Learning Disabilities: Identification and Assessment Issues Beverly S. Nunes Andrews University Introduction In any research in the special education literature, the reader will easily find out that learning disabilities (LD) or specific learning disability (SLD) represents the largest category of students with special education needs in most countries, with 4%-7% of all school-aged children; in the United States, about 50% of the children identified for special educational services are children with a LD (Büttner & Hasselhorn, 2011). Since the term learning disabilities was first listed as one of the categories included in Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, under Public Law 94-142 (PL 94-142), the special education field has experienced a mixed of consensus and divergences regarding to definition, identification, assessment, and service delivery procedures (Chalfant, 1989). The purpose of this paper is to analyze three different articles that address issues concerning learning disabilities definitions and identification in relationship with learning disabilities assessments. The articles were purposely chosen to represent three different phases in the timeline of special education regulation, which would give us at least three different points of views of the development of the concept and implementation of learning disabilities as an eligible category for special education services. The first article was written before the PL 94-142 was replaced by IDEA (Individual with Disabilities Education Act); the second one came just after what they call “new” or “revised” IDEA, that means, IDEA-2004; the last article was written after some years of implementation of the IDEA-2004, the law that is currently in effect.
There were about 15 people in attendance, and the majority of the attendees were middle-aged parents. There were parents that were concerned about their children (students in KISD), and wanted to have a say in their child’s education. Three important topics that were discussed in the meeting were a proposed gutter and downspout replacement, awarding of bids and proposals, and a revision of the
The greatest deviance occurred after the introduction of the report as it spotted the age of every child who went to work. At the first deviance, it was proved that 6 to 10 years old child had to go to school and only when they reach above the age of 10, they could go for work. The second deviance was having a compulsory education for all the children. The third and the greatest deviance which changed the people’s mind set was that, society started to look at children
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics data revealed, one of every three students enrolled in elementary and secondary schools today is of racial/ethnic minority background. Predictions from this data shows that students of color will make up about 46% of this country’s school-age population by the year 2020. (Banks and Banks 1997) By 2035, the fore mentioned group will be the majority of the school population. 2.4 million student, which is equivalent to 5% of all school-age children in the United States who speak another language a home other than English and struggle speaking English. (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics 1998).
Understanding Persons with Intellectual Disabilities SPE 526 Ronaver D. Boatwright March 21, 2012 Susan Myers Understanding Persons with Intellectual Disabilities The Individual with Disabilities Act, or IDEA helped to open the door for the equal provision of educational services to those children diagnosed with disabilities. These individuals were afforded the opportunity to receive these services through special education programs that are provided through public school systems. IDEA recognizes 14 disabilities, all of which adversely affects the educational performance of the children diagnosed. Under IDEA, schools must provide a free appropriate education to any individual with a disability who needs special educational services. I will be discussing 5 disabilities that affect people intellectually.
Inclusive classroom In education an inclusive classroom is a class with a mix of students of both disabled and non-disabled. “Inclusion refers to the practice of including another group of students in regular classrooms: students with physical, developmental, or social-emotional disabilities and those with chronic health problems”. (Cushner, McClelland and Safford) pg.391. The disabled are people who have a physical, mental, or other disability. A disability is any condition that interferes with someone's ability to perform everyday tasks.
The Future of Students Equals Change in Everyone The American people make excuses over and over about why our children are struggling in school, but the true question we need to ask is: why aren’t we doing enough to make a change? A few years ago the elementary school that my children attend had implemented a dual language program. After four years, my children were fluent in Spanish. This program was doing so well, that ninety eight percent of the children in the program tested out gifted. Unfortunately somewhere down the line, the school board members at the district, and state level didn’t think the program was worth keeping.