#akedchat Archive
#akedchat is a great way for Alaska-based educators to share teaching strategies, educational resources, and more.
Monday March 21, 2016
11:00 PM EDT
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Welcome to ! state your name and where you’re at!
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I’m Jethro Jones, host of and principal of
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In honor of we are chatting about how to help students with disabilities
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As a reminder, let’s use language during : Students with disabilities, rather than disabled students
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Nathan, special education teacher, Juneau
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Q1: What does inclusion look like at your school?
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What does inclusion look like at your school?
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A1 Inclusion means that I am finding ways to make sure my students are all given a chance to be successful.
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A1 Inclusion is a vague term that means a lot of different things to different people. What does FAPE look like is a better Q.
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A1 cont a Free and Appropriate Public Education is legally compliant meeting student learning needs in the Least Restrictive Env
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A1 cont both FAPE and LRE are legal mandates that make sure IEP teams meet S needs within the philosophy of inclusion w peers.
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A1: co-teaching at all grade levels
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FAPE means I pay attention to the Appropriate part for each individual student.
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Q2 How do you solidify or make real the idea of Least Restrictive Environment?
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A2 Honestly, this means I let some kids fail more than we are comfortable. I don’t put kids in danger, but they will fail.
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I think Failure is a part of life, it is a life lesson and too often kids are over protected by IEP or helicopter mom
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Alex Otto, Kodiak Middle School. Will be in and out tonight. I echo 's comment about co-teaching!
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A2 LRE is a team determination & placement so a child makes growth towards reasonable IEP goals w/ max amount of peer placement
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Tammy Morris, School Improvement Coaching in Nunapitchuk this week!
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Q2B: what do teachers need to understand about FAPE and LRE?
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A2B FAPE defines that each kid needs to be looked at and assessed as an individual, that it is appropriate to that child
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A2B cont LRE is that child is included to the maximum extent possible based upon needs towards that Appropriate education.
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A2b how to make it work for all students
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Q3: How do you support students with disabilities while honoring their personhood?
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Could you define personhood please? I'm thinking you mean dignity.
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A3: I try to involve the students in their plans and decisions.
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Yes. Dignity works. How do we see them as an individual, not an iep or number of disability? https://t.co/AOmAvnXNrG
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Could you define personhood please? I'm thinking you mean dignity.
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Excellent, I really appreciate that. I'd like to begin implementing student lead IEP mtgs https://t.co/znW836Nbfq
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A3: I try to involve the students in their plans and decisions.
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A3 we see them as a person by forming relationships with them, getting to know them and be family/student centered.
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A3 We build relationships with all students. Discover their interests to make learning relatable, meaningful; participate actively
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absolutely! How powerful would that be?
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A3: Treat them with the same respect you would treat anyone; acknowledge the disability only when necessary.
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Q4: What have you learned from students with disabilities?
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A4: I’ve learned that patience is really worth the effort. for me, for others, for us all.
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I've been searching all night for this article, opinion by a disabled person re disability language https://t.co/QjJV03qyxd
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A4: Learning is hard work.
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It's the opposite perspective of what I posed earlier.
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Q4 Students with disabilities are people and should be treated as such, with dignity and respect for who they are in their core.
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There is a better version of it out there, I'm not a BD fan, but that song strikes a chord with me.
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Q5: How can you develop empathy for students with disabilities?
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A5: this is hard, but you really need to try to put yourself in their shoes.
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A5, but leveraging our sympathy. Noone is perfect, we all have something we struggle with. Take what we know and try to project
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A5: Super good question. At 1st I wondered if you could tch empathy. But now I think u can help others become empathetic.
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Empathy can be taught, and it has to be. A school counselor would be a better expert on this subject that me.
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A5 cont: Help students find things they have in common; similarities; likes & dislikes. So they see S w disability as person
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that's why it is so important to get each S perspective. Their voice matters. 1 S wants small group 1 S wants aide.
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Thanks everyone for a great chat. You rock! What else do you have to share?
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Yes, which is why student and family are key parts of the IEP team when determining FAPE and LRE
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I have to share that in a few weeks I'll be at the Nat. SPED conference in STL and will host April 25 on current issues in SPED
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Please let me know if there are any SPED issues people want to address (or avoid)
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Last, I'd like to say for this chat I used which is a game changer, goodby TweetDeck.
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Looking forward to what you bring back from the Nat. SPED conference
