RJA #2b: Research Topic

Through out elementary school leading into my first year in high school I had a problem with my reading. While in school they decided that mainstream would be best for me. Mainstreaming is when a student that is disabled is kept in the classroom during certain periods based on the students skills. Mainstreaming had really helped and by the time I got to the 9th I was reading at a 10th grade level and no longer need the help. After the help I received I decided that I would like to make a difference in students lives by helping them out and have chosen to do my degree on secondary education Special Education.

Things that i already know.

• schools who believe in mainstreaming feel that if a student cannot function in a regular classroom should go to a special education environment.
  
• Some believe that schools that mainstream prepare students for a diverse world.
  
• Students that mainstream have a higher self esteem, better social skills, and it also allows the students to perform at a higher level in school by observing the other students.
  
• Some disadvantages that have seen are Fear that teachers are not trained to handle students with disabilities, harm to non - disabled students academics because the students will require more of the teachers attention.
  
• Mainstreaming is not putting a child child full time in to special education.
  

Things that I want to learn.

• I would like to see the general feeling of teachers on mainstreaming.
• The actual cost of mainstreaming students.
• The statistics of how many students have been mainstreamed and what there general feeling on it was.