Trends and Issues About Sped and Inclusive Education

TRENDS AND ISSUES
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I N C L U S I V E E D U C AT I O N
FIVE CURRENT TRENDING ISSUES IN
SPECIAL EDUCATION
• Technology
• Teacher Licensure
• Homelessness
• Twice-Exceptional Students
• Parental Support
TECHNOLOGY
• technology can support students in overcoming a
variety of challenges and limitations. Innovative
educators, as well as developers, are attempting to
create and use technology to level the playing field
and provide opportunities to students that they
might not have had before.
• Technology has the potential to provide a bridge for
special education students and instructors, allowing
educators to customize materials for unique needs and
drive personalized instruction.
• By using existing technology in new and alternative ways,
special education teachers can help offer students more
ways to be successful. Creative approaches to instruction
and differentiation for individual learning styles are
especially important in order to achieve success.
TEACHER LICENSURE
• There is a shortage of teachers across the country,
and in some states, it’s becoming a critical shortage.
Teachers of special education are in especially short
supply.
• categorical vs. non-categorical licensure for special
education teachers
HOMELESSNESS
• This is a challenge being faced by more students than you
might expect, and under new Every Student Succeeds Act
(ESSA) requirements, increased focus is being placed on
monitoring the academic growth of this specific population.
• For homeless students, the classroom could be the one safe,
stable place in their day-to-day lives, an important tether to
the safety and security of routine and, perhaps most critically,
an essential support in the journey out of poverty and into a
better situation.
• These students are being forced to deal with
significant, difficult, and interrelated challenges
outside of the classroom that inevitably impact
academic performance and the ability to participate
in instruction.
TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS
• One of the challenges teachers face, in addition to
everything else on their plates, is providing material
that is appropriate in content and grade level for
every child.
• When discussing students with special needs, this
can often refer to age-appropriate and skill-
appropriate content.
• Twice-exceptional (or “2E”) students demonstrate
significantly above-average abilities in certain academic
areas but also show special educational needs, such as
ADHD, learning disabilities, or autism spectrum disorder.
• Because their giftedness often masks their special needs,
or vice versa, they are sometimes labeled as "lazy" or
"underperforming," even though that is not the case.
PARENTAL SUPPORT
• one common theme that was not discussed is the
approach that must be considered when meeting with
parents.
• You, as their child’s teacher, may be the very first person
to indicate that there is an issue with their precious baby.
Starting the conversation is hard—you can be met with
tears or terror. The main thing to consider is that this is
their child and that you only know one small piece of the
puzzle.
• It is important from the beginning that you are part of the one
unified team that supports students in the best way possible. At the
end of the day, you and your students’ parents want the best for
the children, and it’s important to remember that.
• You play an important role in students’ lives, so make sure that
- you’re making your voice heard, but be sure that you’re listening to
what parents have to say.
- Keep children’s best interests in mind. Remember, you are an
advocate, but they are the parents.
- Create a plan that you can all agree on—one that will find students
where they are.
ISSUE/S IN THE PHILIPPINES ABOUT
SPED
The request of the Department of Education (DepEd) for
an additional and dedicated fund for special education
(SPED) programs in 2019 was rejected.
Sevilla said the DepEd had requested to include a special
budget line item for SPED programs worth P562 million in
its proposed 2019 budget, but that this was not
considered by the Department of Budget Management
(DBM).
• “What we were requesting was to have a separate
line item that we call special education program and
that is not existing right now in the budget of
DepEd,” she said.
• Although funding for SPED is included in the MOOE,
Sevilla also said this was not enough to provide for
additional faciltiies, equipment, and training in the
proposed program.
REFERENCES:
• https://blog.edmentum.com/five-trending-issues-special-education
• https://blog.edmentum.com/five-current-trending-issues-special-
education
• https://www.rappler.com/nation/209118-additional-funds-special-
education-programs-department-education-rejected

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