RJA #12b: Field Research Report

I had the privilege of talking to a teacher whose name is Anna Valero; she just recently retired from teaching student science in Washington State. I asked her if she believed if special education students had the right to an education. A. Valero told me that when she first started to teach she had no clue that she was going to be teaching special education students, A. Valero believed that special education students have the same right that mainstream student have, that if they do not get the same help then we are not doing them justice, we are pushing them to the side. I also asked if it is harder for here to teach while having special education students in your class. It’s harder to keep the balance between special education and mainstreamed students when special education students distract the class. I have to keep a balance between how much I am going to help and by how much I have to help the other mainstreamed students. A. Valero also says that she believes that it also depends on how severe the student’s disabilities are. If they are extreme then the school usually had a special education teacher go along with them to aid the student every question. Many of the students in my classes with disabilities just had minor learning disabilities.