Reflection Paper On Special Education

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Working as a Special Education Instructional Assistant at Woodbridge High School in Irvine Unified School District, I have had a privilege of assisting an EL (English Learner) student from Ms. Christine Haley’s class and a LD (Learning Disability) student from Ms. Brooke Martin’s. As school program categorizes its students into 2 groups of mild/moderate and moderate/severe, over 150 students are supervised under 30 certified/classified case-carrier teachers. While the students with moderate/severe LD are scheduled to study multiple subjects in their retained classroom, mild/moderate LD students take their CP (College Preparatory) or the high school certificate courses with additional staff assistance. Most of the mild/moderate LD students graduate and majority of them move on to community college or vocational institutes. Some of the ways these students receive additional assistance throughout the school days …show more content…

His pronunciation has a slight accent. Ms. Haley acknowledged the fact that he’s rather shy in participating in the class activities, which then she pays closer attention to his brave moments like raising his hand or presenting his opinions in front of the class. Once time, the class was assigned to produce a narrative writing project on the prompt related to “reading,” yet he had written an extensive essay on his interest in riding bicycle. Ms. Haley was quite alarmed and spoke individually with the student after the class, only to find out that he had completely misunderstood the given prompt. The teacher believes that the student is capable of earning an excellent grade because he works hard inside and outside of class. He’s dedicated and inquisitive in many ways. Although he tends to remain quiet most of the times, he’s intelligent in his expressiveness during small group works or long-term

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