Teaching Agriculture In Secondary Schools
AEE 535


Class 13:
Teaching Special Needs Students
Learning Objectives:
Define Inclusion 
Determine the learning strategies for special needs students
Learn the basics of inclusion in our public schools
Instructional
Activities:

Take the Teaching Special Needs Students pretest.
Read the article Inclusive Schools: Good for Kids to learn more about inclusion and its benefits toward students' understanding of membership, relationships, and their knowledge and skills.
 Read the article Trends in Working with Special Needs Students from the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of the Agricultural Education magazine.
Visit the SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Windows) website to learn about strategies for helping students with different needs in your classroom. This site also gives suggestions for helping academically gifted students.
This website from the Unversity of South Australia also has strategies for helping students with special needs.
Read the article Side-by-Side -- Students with Disabilities in Regular Classrooms and see how one school is successfully dealing with inclusion.
Visit this website to learn more about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
 Not everyone believes that inclusion is the best thing to do. The article Preparing Teachers for Full Inclusion: Is It Possible? from the Winter 2002 issue of  Teacher Educator  takes a  point of view that full inclusion comes with many obstacles, including the task of preparing all teachers to instruct all students, no matter what types of disabilities the students may have.
Assignments:

Write a two page paper for planning for inclusion of all students in your classroom.

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