I am a Special Education aide for a middle school.
On my team of teachers, there are seven certified teachers (math, world language, language arts, science, humanities (history), and two certified special education teachers)
On our team of 107 students, there are 27 children with IEP's. None of these students have a one on one aide. I am the only aide for 27 students. The disabilities are far ranging from high functioning, high level, to lower level needing practically one on one support.
I am in these students humanities, science, resource reading (pull out) and world language classes. These students need my help in these classes. If I wasnt' there that would be challenging. However, there are some teachers that don't like the aides working with the students.. they don't understand disability students.
My district is very big on inclusion as well.. pull out is only when absoluetely necessary. All classes I work with are inclusion with the exception of the reading class.
Since we have so many IEP students, one special ed teacher is inclusion with the students. But because there are so many on our team, I split time with the teacher. Since the middle school is set on schedules, all 27 are not in the same "traveling classes "or "cores". I am with about 14/15 per day, and the special ed teacher takes the remaining half. The other special ed teacher teaches pull out math, language arts, reading and does inclusion math support. I have substituted for the reading and language arts pull out for these students.
To take all the special education aides in our school would be devastating. In fact most of our classroom aides are special education aides. The opposite is happening in our district, the "regualar" aides, are being removed, but special education aides are getting hired.
As for the NCLB test scores going down, there was a slight rumor that the special education students tests did not "count" towards the final NCLB score. As for this rumor being true, I don't know.
As for your daughter, check the IEP (I'm sure you have) about the inclusion of an aide in her IEP.
I do agree that some students have a hard time in the inclusion setting. Two of my students have the hardest time. But the most ironic thing, more behavorial problems happen within the pull out class.
On my team of teachers, there are seven certified teachers (math, world language, language arts, science, humanities (history), and two certified special education teachers)
On our team of 107 students, there are 27 children with IEP's. None of these students have a one on one aide. I am the only aide for 27 students. The disabilities are far ranging from high functioning, high level, to lower level needing practically one on one support.
I am in these students humanities, science, resource reading (pull out) and world language classes. These students need my help in these classes. If I wasnt' there that would be challenging. However, there are some teachers that don't like the aides working with the students.. they don't understand disability students.
My district is very big on inclusion as well.. pull out is only when absoluetely necessary. All classes I work with are inclusion with the exception of the reading class.
Since we have so many IEP students, one special ed teacher is inclusion with the students. But because there are so many on our team, I split time with the teacher. Since the middle school is set on schedules, all 27 are not in the same "traveling classes "or "cores". I am with about 14/15 per day, and the special ed teacher takes the remaining half. The other special ed teacher teaches pull out math, language arts, reading and does inclusion math support. I have substituted for the reading and language arts pull out for these students.
To take all the special education aides in our school would be devastating. In fact most of our classroom aides are special education aides. The opposite is happening in our district, the "regualar" aides, are being removed, but special education aides are getting hired.
As for the NCLB test scores going down, there was a slight rumor that the special education students tests did not "count" towards the final NCLB score. As for this rumor being true, I don't know.
As for your daughter, check the IEP (I'm sure you have) about the inclusion of an aide in her IEP.
I do agree that some students have a hard time in the inclusion setting. Two of my students have the hardest time. But the most ironic thing, more behavorial problems happen within the pull out class.
