Reflection #3

           Inclusion is definitely overwhelming at times, as a student teacher I find myself trying to teach students material at one level and then going back with a lot of the inclusion students so that I break the information down more.  There is a big gap between my general education students and the special education students.  I feel that inclusion is great in theory however in everyday practice it is not practical.  I feel that some of these students need to be in a more restrictive environment than that of a general education classroom.  The students that I see that are lower level often times have trouble dealing with learning all of the material and vocabulary that are necessary to succeed in Biology.  These students have been passed along every year so that when they reach their freshman year of high school they expect that they will again be passed along.  This is not the case so when they get to high school trying to address all of their needs often becomes trying to get the students to work and participate in the lessons. 

            This semester I have tried multiple approaches to try to address the needs of all of the students.  I have tried to draw pictures and charts of the information to give students a visual; I have also had the students redraw some structures within the cell so that they can become more familiar with the image of the organelles and their structures.  I try to walk around the room throughout the period and offer extra help to the students that seem to be having difficulty understanding and I also try to ask the students if the information makes sense to them so that they can succeed on their assignments.