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Parent Involvement in SPED
Special Education
Overview
This resource is an inquiry project about special education.
The History of Special Education
The history of special education dates back to 1954 with the court case Brown vs. Board of Education. This case helped children with disabilities and their parents. It helped them to gain human rights at school. After this case ended, a door was opened that allowed parents to sue school districts for discrimination against their child, such as segeration or exculsion of a child with disibilities. Special education has gone through many court cases over the years all the way up to 2015 with the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 was to provide all children with a significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high-quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.
Resources
https://www.everystudentsucceedsact.org/
https://www.wrightslaw.com/law/art/history.spec.ed.law.htm
https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/65047/overview
Main Points of Project Topic
Special Education is a very broad subject with it's many different aspects. In our Inquiry Project we will be diving deeper into the History of Special Education; Parent Involvement in Special Education; how to understand and respect Culturally and Linguistically diverse childrens' backgrounds and culture; as well as Assessments.
Resources
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Purpose of the Project
The purpose of this inquiry project is to dive deeper into important educational topics not addressed fully in your coursework. These modules will be open for anyone to search and learn from your project results. You will find guidelines attached and explanations of each required section. You will delete this section and create your OER beginning with the introduction section.
Include a reference list for each section.
Parent Involvement
When teaching special education, it is important to form parent teacher relationships. Much of the time, the children in your classroom will have busy parents with their conflicting work schedules and their time filled home lives. With this in mind, you as the teacher will need to have resources available to keep parents up to speed with what their child is learning as well as having the ability to communicate with their parents directly or via phone or email.
In an article post titled, "Special Education and Parent Involvement", Christina Delgado, a Doctor of Education states this, along the lines of defining parent involvement:
1) Define parental involvement:
Often times parents and educators have different definitions of what parental involvement encompasses.
Special educators and administration need to be clear and set expectations and standards so that all stakeholders understand what is required in efforts to best assist each student.
This article goes on to discuss, not only the benefits of parent involvement in special education, but the author also goes on to discuss common barriers that make parent involvement a bit of a challenge as well. Throughout the whole article, the author provides solutions to help overcome these barriers as well as tips on how to confront a parent on being more involved in their child's education at home and in the classroom.
In many cases, parent involvement is not always easy or convenient, however, many of these articles show us the ropes on what works and possible solutions when it comes to the challenges of working with students in varying and diverse cultural backgrounds.
Resources
https://www.specialedusa.com/post/special-education-and-parental-involvement
https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/gearupkindergarten/gearing-up-blog/elementarykidswithfatherparentinvolvement.jpg
CLD Backgrounds
As future educators, we will come across students who have culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Diversity can be powerful in schools. When we are met with this we must learn how to properly support and help our students who come from these backgrounds.
Here are some ways we can learn from each other:
Understanding and appreciating interdependence of humanity, cultures, and the natural environment.
Practicing mutual respect for qualities and experiences that are different from our own.
Recognizing that personal, cultural and institutionalized discrimination creates and sustains privileges for some while creating and sustaining disadvantages for others;
Access - providing access to a wide range of learning opportunities, activities, settings, and environments
Assessments
There are many different ways to assess students that do not include a written or multiple choice test. I have attached some links below that will give many different ways to assess students. Keep in mind that all students are different so what works for one student may not work for another.
Resources
https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/69394/overview
Final Conclusion
Throughout this project, we have talked about the history of special education, parent involvement with sped, cld backgrounds, and assessments. In summary, diversity is very important and we addressed some of its aspects throughout. Some of these aspects included having various assessments, respecting and understanding how to best benefit various types of learning levels and disabilities, and encouraging relationships with parents to be able to better connect with students in their also diverse home lives.