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Inclusion
By Jessica

By law, if you have an inclusion class there will be a special ed teacher in there and not just an assistant. It is vital that you work out a good relationship with that person. I am a special ed teacher myself but some
of us feel that inclusion is a chance for us to do our planning, or just sit back and relax. The best thing you can do is to plan with your co-teacher. This way you'll always be on the same page. Inclusion students are usually very high functioning and sometimes you won't even be able to tell them from the other students. In some cases I have taken a few of the lowest kids, both spec

and not, to the side and worked with them while the teacher did her lesson. You can pair a spec ed kid up with one of your higher regular students. Some of the modifications for your spec kids could be study guides, abbreviated assignments, teacher copies of notes....If the students are in inclusion than they should not need any type of severe intervention. Well I hope this helps you out a little. It's silly that they seem to always put inclusion students in classes that are already large but it always seems that every inclusion class I work in has 30 or more kids....