...Benefits of Inclusion for Exceptional Students George Santos Brandman University EDUU 511 Abstract Inclusion is a very controversial concept in education today. It is the idea of including special education students in a general education class. This class will provide the special education, or exceptional student, with the support and resources needed to succeed in that environment. This paper will analyze and discuss inclusion. Evidence and support will be provided to defend the position that inclusion provides benefits for both exceptional and non-disabled students. The Benefits of Inclusion for Exceptional Students One of the most controversial concepts in all of education is the concept of inclusion (Hallahan, Kauffman, & Pullen, 2012). Inclusion is the idea that a student with special needs, or an “exceptional student”, attend and is educated in the classroom that this student would normally attend if they were non-disabled. Erwin explains that "the true essence of inclusion is based on the premise that all individuals with disabilities have a right to be included in naturally occurring settings and activities with their neighborhood peers, siblings, and friends" (Erwin, 1993, p. 1). Inclusion includes the commitment to bring resources and services to the exceptional students as opposed to moving them to a segregated location that holds these services and resources (Lipsky & Gartner, 1994). Inclusion is the idea for exceptional students to begin in a...
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...review team report. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Public Schools. Foorman, B. R., & Torgesen, J. (2001). Critical elements of classroom and small group instruction promote reading success in all children. Learning disabilities: Research and Practice, l6(4), 203–212. Fuchs, D., Mock, D., Morgan, P., & Young, C. (2003). Responsiveness-to-intervention: Definitions, evidence, and implications for the learning disabilities construct. Learning Disabilities: Research and Practice, 18(3), 157–171. Fuchs, L. S., Fuchs, D., & Speece, D. L. (2002). Treatment validity as a unifying construct for identifying learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 25, 33–45. Gresham, F. M. (2002). Responsiveness to intervention: An alternative approach to the identification of learning disabilities. In R. Bradley, L. Danielson, & D. P. Hallahan (Eds.), Identification of learning disabilities: Research to practice (pp. 467–519). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Ikeda, M. J., & Gustafson, J. K. (2002). Heartland AEA 11’s problem solving process: Impact on issues related to special education (Research Rep. No. 2002-01). Johnston, IA: Heartland Area Education Agency. Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004, PL 108-446, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq. Learning Disabilities Roundtable. (2002, July). Specific learning disabilities: Finding common ground. Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research. Retrieved from http://www.ncld.org/advocacy/Common...
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...Importance of Writing Skills as a Paralegal Tanya Buckmaster May 27, 2014 CM107-10 College Composition I Professor Gregg A paralegal is a professional that has obtained the required education and experience to Perform legal work under the supervision of an attorney. In order for paralegal students to strive in their chosen field, they must learn and demonstrate exceptional writing skills. Writing well will not only help you strive as a paralegal in the law office, it can also imp- rove your communication skills. So much of the communication in a law office is through writing. With excellent writing skills you have the ability to advance to a higher position, such as Paralegal Director. Good writing skills can save you and the law firm time and money. Writ- ing well will improve your own self-image and will gain you respect from the attorneys you work for. Writing is one of the primary parts of your job; it is communicating. A successful paralegal doesn’t begin a writing process without answering the who the writing is aimed towards and what the writing is focused on. As a paralegal, you must be able to separate the important information from the unimportant information. The purpose of writing a report, memo, or a brief is to make something happen. The clearer your writing is, the more likely you are to attain the results you are aiming for. When writing, write as if you were talking face to face with your reader...
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...* About Us * Samples * FAQ * Our Prices * Order now * Writers * Contact Us We write: * Essays * Research Papers * Coursework * Thesis * Dissertations * Term Papers * UK Essays ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Count of pages: Number of words: Choose your academic level: Term: Discount Code (optional): Discount: 0% Price: $0 Bottom of Form The page includes: Essay Paper on Economics Essay Paper on Economics Social polarization grows as the poor become worse off, but as the wealthy become better off. One of the reasons for that is the shocking fact that the poor often pay more taxes, relatively, than do the rich. In Britain, for example, “the tax burden of the top fifth of earners has fallen from 37 percent to 35 percent in the last twenty years. In contrast, the tax burden of the bottom fifth has risen from 31 percent to 38 percent.” The other reason for social inequality nationally is imperfect income distribution. Thus, whereas 23.5 percent of all American workers received only poverty level wages in 1973, this had risen to 28.6 percent by 1997. Looked at another way, real wages for relatively low-paid workers fell by 22 percent between 1973 and 1995, and 10 percent for middle-range workers. Low-paid jobs grew by 22 percent in New York City between 1993 and 2000—four...
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...What effect does consequences have on improving student behavior in the general education classroom? Darrell Brown AMBA 600 9043 MBA Fundamentals (2148) Professor Masi November 11, 2014 Executive Summary Research shows that meaningful consequences can help improve student behavior in the general education classroom. This paper discusses the effects of consequences on improving student behavior. More specifically it discuses two behavior management programs, the checkbook approach and consequence maps. The checkbook approach allows students to take ownership of their actions by allowing them to be an active part in choosing the rules, rewards, and consequences used in helping them perform better. This behavior management program ensures student motivation. It models real life situations and students are allowed to earn and buy rewards. The consequence map gives the student a graphic representation of behaviors and consequences. It depicts the current, undesirable behavior and an alternate behavior along with the consequences that goes along with each option. With the use of either method, educators are likely to see and improvement in student behavior in the general education classroom. B. F. Skinner was an American psychologist and behaviorist who invented the idea of operant conditioning. Skinner says that people do not just develop behaviors, but they release them as well and that our behaviors operate on our environment, which generates...
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...students, so they could excel into their fields. The university life made a significant impact on student future life. Studies are the most frightening part of university life. But most of the universities have adopted very efficient ways to help especially new students to stand on to their feet. University is a place where students are part of the learning team. The environment at university helps students to create big ideas and also give a sense to enhance their abilities to solve real world problems and also to create better future for themselves. That means an endless opportunity to flourish their interest, talents and passion. The purpose of this research paper is to review the student life at Minnesota State University. Minnesota State University is rapidly growing its reputation on international level due to its research facilities and unique quality of life at Mankato. Mankato is the city of the state of Minnesota. Quality of Life at University: According to review of a university student, the university campus the life is very energetic and fun loving. There are many sports facilities to take participation in and many affiliations with the different clubs at city and state level. The university campus is not very big so lots of new events are detained for University students to keep them active and make them as a close community. Those events include cookouts,...
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...since I had thought only adults were homeless. Looking back, it seems very thoughtless that I only thought adults were affected and my research into this subject led me to see that whole families can be affected by homelessness. Throughout this paper, I plan on talking about the causes of homelessness, the prevalence of homeless, signs that children might be homeless,...
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...Running header: DIGITAL BLENDED CLASSROOM LEARNING Lloyd Wayne Murphy Digital Blended Classroom Learning the New Dawn of Learning for All Strayer University Professor Randi Fass SUMMER 2011 EDU500 August 7, 2011 The intended purpose of this thesis is to illustrate how the ensuing commencement of a new dawn of student instruction, the digital-blended-classroom-learning (DBCL) discipline is upon the academic world. The advent of the innovative blending of computers within classroom instruction referred to as digital learning by some, and by others in academic world refer the discipline as blended learning posit the possession the qualities thereof, exceptionally enhance both SDL and SRL disciplines. A wide variety of DBCL discipline programs exhibit signs of incurring the utmost in achieving efficaciously successful method of instruction with both the age of majority and minority age student proficiency, in a plethora of educational institutions, where the DBCL discipline is employed. DBCL involves the integration of computer and the Internet and Intranet into the classroom, thus allowing the communication technology as a teacher/student instruction tool, along the classroom instruction tools employed in the student’s core curriculum. DBCL disciplines demonstrate signs of the improvement of teacher/student interest, student participation, student aptitude, and of the utmost import is student academic proficiency. DBCL further reveal, when, computers...
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...especially in my English 1101 class. I thought I knew everything there was to know about writing when I came in on my first day, but I was very wrong. My professor assured me that there is much more to writing than just putting words down on paper. Knowing all of this, I have now learned how to improve on my writing skills, how to write better grammatically correct sentences, incorporate quotes and research and give as well as get criticism. When I came into this semester as a freshman I was very confident in the quality of my writing. However, my self-esteem was soon crushed shortly thereafter. Even though my writing skills had been very good compared to my classmates in high school, at the university level they were just average. After hearing about the on average grades students get in professor Elliott’s class, I knew I had a lot of work to do to receive an A on a paper. I had to do something quick to learn how improve on my writing skills. With the help of my teacher, she made us a read a variety of articles that were very interesting, yet also very insightful and helpful at the same time. One article that really stood out to me was called “Engfish.” In high school, teachers tend to get really impressed if you have really big words in a paper, but when you incorporate such large words, you tend to start losing your argument and start talking about nothing. After reading about “Engfish and having these helpful hints my professor threw my way, I...
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...LORD ASHCROFT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL EXAMINATION PAPER August 2012 BB430999S POSTGRADUATE MAJOR PROJECT – CAPSTONE MODULE TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS & 15 MINUTES INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: 1. Students will be allowed 15 minutes reading time 2. Students are allowed to write on the question paper during that time, but NOT in the Answer Booklet 3. All questions carry equal marks 4. Start your answer to each question on a separate page Materials Permitted in the Examination: 1. Seven A4 sides of pre-prepared research may be taken into the examination room and should be submitted with the examination answer. 2. A single-volume, bilingual dictionary (without annotation). However, the use of electronic dictionaries or translators is not permitted. Mitigation – Academic regulations 6.86 - 6.94 6.90 Claims for mitigation must be submitted by the student or in exceptional circumstances (e.g. when a student has been hospitalised) by a Director of Studies, Programme Leader or Student Adviser on behalf of the student no later than five working days after the date on which an examination has been sat. Number of questions set: 2 Number of pages: 4 (including cover) Name of examiner/tutor: Dr. John W. Lang NOTE: All questions below relate to the Student Brief distributed in session 3 of the module regarding GOOGLE QUESTIONS: To be answered by ALL students 1. Critically analyse and evaluate the...
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...| | |Module Assessment (%): | | |Lecturer: |Steve Griffiths |Internal Verifier: |Caroline Jawad | |Assignment Title: |Learning Logs |Assignment No (x of x): |1 of 1 | |Hand Out Date: | Sept 2012 |Submission deadline: |16 November 2012 | |Referencing: |In the main body of your submission you must give credit to authors on whose research your work is based. Append to your | | |submission a reference list that indicates the books, articles, etc. that you have read or quoted in order to complete this | | |assignment (e.g. for books: surname of author and initials, year of publication, title of...
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...your assignment to the course shell. Research and read an article on recent recipients of the Project Management Institute’s Project of the Year Award. Write a 2-3 page paper in which you: 1. Summarizes how the project manager or team exhibited exceptional and ethical project management practices. 2. Discusses the role of the project manager or team, the organizational setting, the recipient’s approach to project integration management, and obstacles that had the potential of adversely impacting the triple constraints. 3. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Your assignment must: • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: • Describe the knowledge and processes areas of project management in accordance to the Project Management Institute Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide. • Describe and demonstrate ethical practices in project management. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in IT project management. • Write...
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...Runninghead: ANALYSIS AND CRITIQUE PAPER Analysis and Critique Paper Cherrise L. Whye University of Phoenix September 17, 2012 Analysis and Critique Paper Public education, while still coping with the implications of an accountability system mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), is facing yet another “unprecedented challenge” (D’Angelo & Dixey, 2001) that has far-reaching implications. The increasing diversity of the student populations served by public education systems is already having an adverse effect on overall student achievement and is forcing more and more educators to question their own beliefs and prejudices. The article focuses on the major issues in public education failing to reach our culturally and linguistically diverse student population, particularly those with and at risk for disabilities, including disproportionate academic underachievement, special education referrals, and disciplinary actions (Cartledge & Kourea, 2008). An eruption of social consciousness and moral seriousness has occurred about the “savage inequalities” faced by minorities and poor children in so many of America’s urban schools today (Kea & Utley, 1998). Even while it is clear that culturally and linguistically diverse students have the greatest need for quality instructional programs, many researchers argue that they are less likely to be taught with the most effective evidence-based instruction. Banks (2002) contends that the challenges...
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...NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: Thompson, Christina | | EDU8002 | Janet Strickland | | | Educational Research Methodology | Assignment #5:Writing a Purpose Statement | | | <Add Learner comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Writing Score> <Date Graded> Title Topic Paper Submitted to Northcentral University Graduate Faculty of the School of Business and Technology Management in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION by Christina Thompson Prescott Valley, Arizona January 2013 Table of Contents Proposed Topic 1 Introduction 1 Abridged Literature Review 1 Problem Statement 1 Purpose Statement 1 Research Questions 1 Summary 1 References 2 Postsecondary Transition for Students with Disabilities Accumulative number of students with disabilities is following post-secondary education. The number of students with disabilities attending college or entering the work place has significantly...
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...3. Pin Drive Class Participation Expectations The student will: • Be prepared with correct materials to perform the assigned tasks, every day • Be courteous when others are speaking • Respect other people’s property and ideas • Be an active participant in class discussion, coursework, and collaborative group work Grading Policy In this course, grading will follow PSJA ISD’s policy. Averages will be determined by the following criteria: Tests………………………………….40% Quizzes……………………………….15% Classroom/Homework……..………..20% *Projects(s)………………………......10% Six Weeks Exam………………….....15% *Projects may include presentations, research papers, models, reports, collages, posters, experiments, etc. ➢ The teacher may assign the student makeup work based on the instructional objectives for the subject or course and the needs of the individual student in mastering the essential knowledge and skills or in meeting subject or course requirements, for any class missed. ➢ Student will be responsible for obtaining and completing the makeup work in a satisfactory manner and within the time specified by the teacher. ➢ A student who does not make up assigned work within the time allotted by the teacher...
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