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Special education is a service, not a location. When we write IEPs, it’s important we consider all possible settings for our students. We must have extremely good reasons to restrict access to anything other than what general education students have. Here is a list to get you thinking about the settings you and the IEP team should consider when deciding placement for your special education students. Remember, with all students, we must select their least restrictive environment whether that is inclusion, self-contained, or something else.<\/p>[\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.21.1″ custom_padding=”47px|0px|54px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row custom_padding=”0|0px|0|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.21.4″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.21.1″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.owlquest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10.png” _builder_version=”3.21.4″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.21.1″]
The general education setting is general education classrooms. Educators must take the decision to take a student out of a general education classroom very seriously. Students need access to the general education setting not just for access to the curriculum but for access to general education peers without disabilities.<\/p>\n
Special education students need to see peer behavior modeled so they can replicate the behavior. Even students who do not have \u201cbehavior problems\u201d need this access. Why? Students need to be able to socialize with their own peers. If students model adult behaviors instead of the behaviors of their peers, their peers might find them a bit odd and not want to socialize with them.<\/p>\n
Special education settings often have behaviors. I have seen students with disabilities pick up less than desirable behaviors from one another, behaviors they would not have witnessed if they were in the general education setting.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s very important we be cognizant of the range of impacts on behavior removing a student from the general education curriculum entails. There can be a time and place for recommended a non-general education placement, absolutely, but there must be evidence that the general education environment is not the least restrictive environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.21.1″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.21.1″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.21.4″] The general education setting is the classrooms students without disabilities take part in as part of their normal schedule. These classes are taught by general education teachers. Many special education students can be well supported in the general education classroom with modifications and accommodations provided by a special education teacher or paraprofessional that \u201cpushes in\u201d to support the student.<\/p>\n In the co-teaching model, both general ed and special education students are in one classroom with two teachers: a general education teacher and a special education teacher. In a good co-teaching classroom, there should be more general education students than special education students. In the co-teaching model, teachers collaborate and work very closely together. Even the special education teacher works with general education students. It should not be clear to the students who has an IEP and who does not in a co-teaching classroom.<\/p>\n Resource<\/strong><\/p>\n A resource room has students who come and go into the general education setting as well as the special education classroom. This setting is going out of style. Older students, particularly ones third grade and older can find it embarrassing to be pulled out of class to go to the resource room. Sometimes this model is called pull out. Students still can benefit from the smaller class size and reduced distractions that the resource room provides. However, with more modern teaching methods like Daily 5<\/a>, students should be working in smaller groups with differentiated instruction provided. (The book mentioned is an affiliate link.) I have experience teaching in self-contained life skills classrooms. While students in this setting have a stolen my heart, very few students should be considered for placement in self-contained classes. The students who are in self-contained classrooms should need to be there. For my life skills students, they were not well served by being in the general education classroom.\u00a0 Because of the nature of their disabilities, their time was better spent learning social skills and life skills, combined with academics at their level.<\/p>\n Self-Contained students generally have Intellectual Disability (ID) and not Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs). Some self-contained students have that placement due to behaviors.<\/p>\n One on one support is not location based. A student could have a one-on-one para in a general education classroom, a co-taught class, or a self-contained class. With a one-on-one, the student is to receive a high level of support. It is usually rare for students to qualify for a one on one. It is restrictive to have someone with and watching you all day long after all.<\/p>\nSettings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
General Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Co-Teaching<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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1:1 Support<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Separate School<\/strong><\/h4>\n