Reflection Of Observation In The Special Education Department

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I chose to observe our amazing SEIF, Mrs. Walker, for my field observation assignment. Honestly, I spent more time helping her with the special education department than I did actually observing her. Western High School has the largest number of special education students in all of Clark County School District. That being said, we are currently over number in the special education department as far as students are concerned, and with the new system that we are now required to write our IEP’s, our department is under a lot of stress. All that considered, Mrs. Walker has done, and is currently doing, an amazing job keeping us organized and in order over these past two grueling months. Throughout my time working directly with Mrs. Walker I did learn a significant amount of information, that I, as a regular special education teacher, never paid as much attention to as I probably should have. With our school currently being over number, Mrs. Walker showed me how she has to disburse all of our students amongst our department. There are rules that coincided with each area of the …show more content…

The implementation of this new system required our entire department to sit through two 8-hour training sessions and read an 85-page manual. Some of the members in our department are still struggling significantly with writing their IEPs in this new system. Here is where I provided the majority of my services hours. Mrs. Walker had me write three IEPs in the new system. She read through them, and gave me some feedback on certain things that I needed to go back and fix. After providing her with the edited copies of the IEPs, she and the assistant principal approved for me to do a few hour-long sessions in one of the computer labs, where I assisted some of the other special education teachers with writing their IEPs in the new system. I was given great feedback on the help that I was able to give thanks to Mrs. Walker’s

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