I am the intervention specialist in a second grade full inclusion classroom. Not only do I co-teach in the classroom, I also manage the IEP's and goals of the 8 students with disabilities. The school system I teach in has more than half of its students as low-income students and more often than not most of my students come to school without even their most basic needs being met. Even with these barriers, this does not stop my amazing students from coming to school eager and anxious to learn and be the best they can be!
My students' disabilities range from mild to intensive, so I strive to make sure all of my students learn, no matter their ability level, in this setting.
There is a lot of differentiated teaching and learning going on throughout the day to make sure I am meeting the needs of all of the students. This typically means I need to make sure I have a variety of resources at my fingertips to be able to provide my students with everything they need to be able to learn. My goal is to set them up to be independent, contributing members to society in the future!
My Project
I teach in an amazing second-grade full inclusion classroom environment. I share a classroom with the general education teacher. While all students share a learning space, the variety of needs ranges from students who can barely read and focus, to students reading at the sixth-grade level! With such a wide range of learning abilities, there are many spaces in the room for students to go throughout the day to work on differentiated learning instruction. The majority of the lessons I plan and teach are at a kidney table so that my students with minor to intensive learning disabilities can focus in a smaller group setting.
While my students love working in a small group setting, they often miss out on some of the other "fun" seats around the room, like the rockers, or carpet, or disc chairs.
We have one wobble stool that all of the students beg to sit in, but it is not high enough to sit at the kidney table I work at. This project is to fund 5 wobble stools, enough to fit around my kidney table so that all of my students feel as if they, too, get to sit at a "fun" chair! This will help motivate them to want to come back to my kidney table and learn to their best potential.
In addition to being motivation for the students to learn, it will also help with their focus. Many of the students (both with and without diagnosed disabilities) have the "wiggles" throughout the day. The wobble stools provide a way for them to get their "wiggles" out without being dangerous or causing a disruption. Wobble stools really work well with students with hyperactivity tendencies and provide them with better opportunities to learn!
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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