Classroom Reflection Analysis

This course has greatly enhanced my knowledge on students with moderate and severe disabilities. Personally, coming into this course I did not know what to expect. I have never had experience with children with moderate and/or severe intellectual disabilities. I also did not know too much about the conditions because we never covered too much about it in any of my classes. Throughout the course I was able to gain more knowledge about the different types of disabilities there are, the types of testing that occur, and how to implement different services to different children. Like I said, I did not know what to expect coming into this course. I did not know anything about children with moderate and/or severe disabilities. I was excited and eager to learn, because I know at one point in my educational career I will need to work with students with these disabilities

I always thought inclusion was great in all aspects, but that is because I was taught that in all of my classes thus far to look at all of the benefits. By understanding the disabilities that students with moderate to severe disabilities it is important to address that inclusion for every student may have more cons than pros. Though it is great there are some downfalls to it. For instance, a student can be bullied more, not understand the content at all and waste a day, distract other students and disrupt their learning. Though there are benefits, sometimes the cons out weigh the pros. This opened my eyes to really look at each individual student and see what their needs are instead of generalizing that inclusion is excellent for every single student. I now believe that inclusion should be implemented for every student as some point, but students really need to be monitored to see if its working for them or not. The students also have the voice to say how they feel about it and as teachers we should listen to