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By Donna
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None of my kids know who receives accommodations or services and who does not, with the exception of one pullout for OT services. I teach first grade and my master's is in sped even though I teach a regular 1st grade class.From | day one, I have explained that everyone is smart in different ways (6 year old version of multiple intelligences). We then had a discussion that some people are smart in reading, some are smart in sports, somea re smart in art, some are smart in making friends, etc. They seemed to get it. I then explain (and have on a number of occassions), that so and so may need my help for | |
reading right now, but at some point this year YOU may be the one that needs help. That's why we are in school. I also explain that just because YOU might need a bandaid, does that mean that everyone should get a bandaid too if they don't need it? Very basic explanantions.
I can't help you out with multi-cultural stuff since we are VERY homogenous, but because of that, I introduce literature that highlights children from other cultures in a very "normal" way so that my kdis can see that we are more alike then different. And that gets extended into our classroom. Hope this helps!
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