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Great article and imagery.

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In my high school they had the special education kids take classes along side the kids without disabilities. But they also had one special class period for the special education kids where two teachers who specialized in special ed. taught the students to make sure they understood the material taught in all their classes. The two teachers alternated between station teaching and one teach one assist. I had really great grades my senior year so I was allowed to be a peer tutor where that one class had me sitting down with other kids my age to help them with their work. So they had two teachers and a tutor all working together. I think that model really helped because you had the two experts able to give more students one on one attention plus a student tutor their own age. Some of the special education students relaxed a bit more with me because of my age.

Wow! This is music to my ears. I love that the teachers got you involved. I guarantee you the kids learned more form you than any adult in that room. And I don't just mean about the lesson. They learned about treaty others with dignity and respect. I bet a lot of other kids in the class learned a lot from your example as well.

highly motivated, a very valuable lesson

Great educational post!

Thanks for sharing

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Nice post on education. Thanks for sharing.

I agree. Every educator should at least know about this.

@hanshotfirst - This is a great post, which I hope reaches far and wide. I completely agree with what you are saying:

This model allows for students with disabilities to be educated along side their peers without disabilities instead of being isolated from them in a separate setting with a different teacher. Not only does this model fulfill the spirit of the special education laws in the United States which dictate that a student should be educated in the "least restrictive environment", it also provides students with disabilities equal access to the social and educational benefits their peers receive.

I am very fortunate to be able to say that my sons school is very inclusive in this respect. They have at least one or two special needs kids in every class in their school and they are taught in the same class by the same teachers. They have their personal facilitators alongside them too.

Personally I think it is not only important that children with special needs be afforded the opportunity to integrate in normal society, but also for the children that do not have any special needs to be exposed to them too, as it teaches them not to be cruel. It teaches them to accept them just like everyone else and that is VERY important too!

Great post as usual!

"but also for the children that do not have any special needs to be exposed to them too"

Exactly!!!! Kids can learn so much from their peers with special needs!

yip! True Story :)

Wow @hanshotfirst. What a novel idea to deal with the discrimination our society imposes upon special needs children. They deserve all off that and more of what a normal child deserves. This 2 teacher practice can go a long way for improving situation for them. Indeed two heads are double the fun and double the attention on kids.

You are preaching to the choir. And what people need to remember is that people with disability is one of the few minority groups that a person can become during any time in their life. One traumatic brain injury or illness and we could all be part of this group. Probably should start treating them better...

No doubt about it. Anyone can can be a part of it.

I genuinely didn't know there were so many different techniques to it. I am awfully interested given that my daughter will be starting in school next year.

And on the subject of lighter approaches...

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Lol! I used to teach that until "the incident". A bunch of kids went dark side on me. It wasn't good.

Ah well we can't have that. Steer clear! :0)

Wooooohhhh!!! Laser sword!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha

:0) my speciality

lol that is funny.. ahahha

:0)

I think it was more funny due to the seriousness of the post. After reading the article, thinking that could be a great idea and I was seriously going to ask my primary school teacher of a sister, what she thinks about it. I then scrolled down and saw your face with a lightsaber shouting "teach this!".... love your animations btw...

Lol, I have always loved photoshopping lightsabres onto pics. I knew hanshotfirst would like a bit of Sabre action!

I was a systems analyst for 10 years.... then I started working at this restaurant. I went back to school to get an associates degree in teaching.

Since all I ever needed to become a systems analyst were a bunch of computer certificates, I had no degree at all when I got laid off. I was able to get my associates in Spanish with a teaching ESL addendum. My plan was to teach ESL or start as a TA.

The only positions that I was able to find were for special ed teachers assistants and all of them required you to change student's diapers. Change grown adult student's diapers.

I don't want to do that so it was really disheartening because I spent several years and my own money barely getting by working in this restaurant to go back to school to get that degree and finding out that the only position they want to hire me for is a diaper changer.

Now I am still at this restaurant..... 11 years now. I still read posts like these and enjoy them because I still see myself as a teacher. I just feel like I got lost in the system somehow along the way.

I didn't realize you had teaching education! That's a shame you couldn't find a job. Times change and education is different than it was 11 years ago. Have you thought about pursuing it again? There are other areas other than teaching. With Spanish and ESL you could work for a lot of organizations teaching English as a second language. Maybe even government jobs. I did online tutoring for extra cash and there are always jobs for people with ESL experience.

Well. I can speak Spanish and write Spanish. I did spend about 2 to 3 years doing a total immersion experience where I only spoke Spanish. I live in Texas so it's not hard to find some people that are always willing to speak Spanish with you everyday. It's hard though when you work 7 days a week because you come home tired and it's difficult to continue to try. I am still looking for teaching assistant jobs but it is difficult.

I understand. I am very happy that many of my colleagues have a calling to help the students with the most sever disabilities. It is incredibly difficult. If you don't have that calling you did the right thing to not take ea job that you would resent. I truly hope you are able to find a teaching job. You sound very passionate about it. What about teaching the skills needed to be a systems analyst?

This is a compleete new way and I think it will help a lot to make the school better. It should be a test phase going on, to see how it will affect the teaching power. Thanks for sharing, upvoted 100% for that great idea

Very good article. I know the pain of parents with special kids, one of my friend's son is autistic and it is nearly impossible for him to get admission into regular school and its hurtful to see all kids with similar disability issues have to go special schools. This way they never be treated with regulars and practically robbing them to grow naturally.

Great post. I'm also a teacher but I teach at a Univeristy. I find the seating plans and teaching styles still hold strong even when they're practically adults. I'm going to save this page to refer back to it later, you've made some useful points and to someone who is fairly new to teaching (I come from an animation industry background) I know this will be useful :) Resteemed and upvoted

Thanks! If you ever do any education related posts, make sure to use the steemiteducation tag so the team can find your post!

This model allows for students with disabilities to be educated along side their peers without disabilities instead of being isolated from them in a separate setting with a different teacher.

Co-teaching makes great sense for students with special needs, allowing them to learn and grow alongside their peers. And I imagine the other students benefit in environments like this too. We sent our third-grader to his first day of school today, and we're happy to see the diversity in his classroom. These ideas of yours are thoughtful and thought-provoking too. Thank you.

I hope your 3rd grader is having a great start to the year!

Good start so far, yes, thank you. He's public schooling after a year of private schooling and homeschooling, or more honestly "unschooling". He seems to thrive in the public schools, so we're happy for his happiness. And I hope yours is going well too.

I love this so much & I'm thankful there are teachers like you out there! It's nice to know that schools & teaching styles are evolving as our kids do.

I enjoyed this (and have been teaching since 1980). Sadly there are resourcing issues that 'teaching to the test' education doesn't require. Have you come across this article? You may enjoy it. "From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side" http://www.jstor.org/stable/27558571

I remember the fights I had with my oldest daughters teachers years ago when she was diagnosed ADHD, ODD & Aspergers, they didn't have a clue, I had to give them tips on how to control her and what Might work, its good to see there are more things in place now.

You are a great advocate for her! That is more important than anything I do.

Thank you, I am just glad Its over, It wasn't the best time lol

This would work well provided that the teachers keep their egos in check. I remember having a class in college where two professors taught at the same time. One of the professors would love to make jokes when it was his turn to talk, but when the other professor was speaking, the first looked board, and would sometimes interrupt the other professor.

Very true. It has to be one well.

Iam a teacher..that post is very important for us to practice in our classroom..style in the classroom is one of important to know more style..that will be student happy in the class...iam so happy with your post..thank @hanshotfirst waiting for another post..

Very educational post. It's nice to know that so many of these students are getting good opportunities to learn. I'm guessing many classrooms use some combination of these approaches, depending upon the lesson and whether it involves group or individual work, as opposed to the whole class listening to the teacher.

Exactly. That is part of the beauty. There is so much flexibility in the approach.

I work at school by your method no. 5 - One teach, one assist. I am assist. It has positive and negative side. Maybe I'll write about it sometime...

You should! Make sure to use the steemiteducation tag so the team will see it.

The only problem I see, at least in the country where I live, is that two teachers require twice the amount of money. And it is very unlikely the state will go in that direction, although I must admit that the experience might be super interesting.

It actually ends up being fairly cost neutral. When there is co teaching, it means fewer sections of self-contained classes. The teacher that would be in that room is now in a general education classroom. Also it might mean that a teacher assistant is no longer required which also saves money. But you are correct sometimes it is a bit more expensive.

This is a great teaching plan. One thing is that where are you going to find the teachers. In the United States, due to cutbacks and teacher shortages in certain states, it can be hard for a public school to afford this method. There needs to be incentives for teachers beyond just benefiting the students in order for them to completely jump onto this plan.

This is true. It is sad that some districts don't have the resources to properly support the students.

Co-education is the best and it open many doors of the personality of kids otherwise they will be only curious to know more about the other sex. The types of teaching you have explained are really amazing, I even did not know there are so many types there. Wonderful post dear.

Great piece on teaching and some of the various methods, but I must admit, my favorites are "I'll just ask my wife to tell me something stupid that I have done recently and I'll write about that..."

LOL. Thanks!

I taught preprimary age as the second teacher in a large class, I loved it!

Most of our students were of average to high ability but we were in a unique situation as the "sister"school to a school across the street for disabled students.

The two schools went on field trips together and shared playground space as well as combined learning projects like gardening, raising rabbits, and music.
Both schools were elementary age students.

We mostly worked as a team as you described, but for science we set things up more as the station style.

Having the two groups mixed together on projects was wonderful as each student was part of a team that succeeded and the "differently abled" students were able to really contribute in many ways. I remember a few incidents were our disabled team members were really ahead of the other students because of their unique situation.

We all learn in so many ways!

We sure do! This sounds like a really cool and fun way to teach. Thanks for sharing.

I think parallel teaching has been adopted almost globally. However this is a wonderful topic and you totally nailed it.

Thanks! I hope education for all students improves. Hopefully steemit can be part of this change.

Nice article! To be a teacher is the hardest job in the world, to be responsible of classroom for a class of 23 students, it's not easy like the others see, because you have to be the mom and the friend and the psychiatrist of them, without exaggeration but it's the truth and you have to be a good teacher by you teach them how to communicate and how to describe the things and how to be good listening, am talking about it because me also i was teacher when i was in Morocco, but when i get married i leave my job to take care of my small family,

You are so right. There are so many different responsibilities as a teacher. I hope you are enjoying caring for your family. Parents are the most important teacher.

Quite an innovative approach. When we are truly committed, we always find a way to improve our results. It will be difficult to adopt this in a profit-centric institution where it is gospel to keep the student to instructor ratio outrageously high.

You are right there... sadly.

If every decision made by school boards and administrations were genuinely with the students' best interests in mind...you'd have a lot of happy teachers, happy parents, happy communities, and successful students. Unfortunately, I often feel like what is said, and then what is implemented, rarely match.

Indeed. It may have to do with the fact that in the U.S. there are no real qualifications to be on a school board. many times no-one on the board has any experience with education at all.

This is a fantastic post wish i could upvote more, but did what I could this is so impressive. Thank you for sharing this with us.

LOL. Well thaw as nice of you to say. Thank you!

What a fabulous post! It's the first day of the semester at the University I work at (and attend, hooray free tuition!) and I was looking for something to get me jazzed and this definitely did the trick.

As a student, I've been in classrooms where co-teaching was terrible and ones where the faculty were really on top of their game. I'm glad to see you promoting a collaborative model.

I upvoted & resteemed this post and followed you.

thank you! That is a high compliment! I love getting people jazzed! (Hence all the !!!!!)

Nice post its good for teacher as well as for parents.

I wish these kind ideas were explored when I was a child. Happy I was able to self-teach myself many subjects and correct outdated education system. BTW I am Star Wars fan too, just recently built full scale BB8, soon will post it on Steemit too :)

Wow! Make sure you let me know when you post it. That sounds awesome!

Where were people like you when I was a kid ? Love it ..and Star Wars is based on a true story somewhere in a galaxy so so far away anymore ..lol

Lol. I like the thought of that. May the force be with you!

I have said it before and I say it again - my hat off to you for being a special ed teacher. What a wonderful calling you are practicing. I wish the co-teacher idea is something they want to implement in our schools, but at this stage the government is not even paying all the teachers and most schools must appoint and pay extra teachers, otherwise they will end up with 60 kids in each class, from which 40 will get lost. Great post - resteeming. PS the fact that your wife is keeping a list shows you that you still interest her, it is when she stops keeping a list....LOL

I know I am very lucky. Good for you for fighting the very worthwhile fight in a very difficult situation. No need to take your hat of to me. My kids are awesome!

I actually take my hat off to all teachers - we are a breed on our own hahaha

nice, i never paid attention to co-teaching , but it looks good conceptually.
Thanks for the insight. :)

Wow! Tnx for sharing it with us hans. For teachers like me, it is really a big help. Hope to see more write ups like this...

I will likely only have time to read one article on Steem today. Glad I saw this.
Keep up the great work, bro. You're a hero. I'm blessed to call you a friend.

Wow man. That is high praise. I wasn't sure how this one would go over. Way more serious than my usual silliness. I am happy you are my friend as well!

Of course they learn a lot when they're not being separated. It's because they think only about the studies unlike if they are in separate room or class, they have to think if there are fit in

yes u right and ur work is also best i read ur mostly posts specially batman and starwars ur reviews on batman and others are goodn and give some lesson and now on education and teaching reviews are best and i m totally agree with u i like really like ur work and appriciate u for this @hanshotfirst sir

Interesting,
I have never thought of co-teaching.
Thank you for your sharing

Thanks! It is a really wonderful approach. You'd be surprised what kids are capable of if you have very high expectations and provide the support needed to reach those expectations.

What will happen if all schools will do the same thing? Can you imagine it?

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

That is a wise quote old man.

Great works maam @hanshotfirst ,your vision about educating specially childrens are one of the greatest vision on earth.they are easy to learn if there are some people's welling to teach them...well done maam!

Upvoted Resteem!

Such a nice article! Congratz!!

that's seems so good, of course 2 are better then one @hanshotfirst

yeah agreed...
nice post...
upvoted ... and followed...!!!

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