Balancing Standards-Based Curriculum and Individual Needs of Students

*Transcript* In this video I explain that special education students being included in general education classrooms is becoming increasingly common in schools today.  While it can be frustrating for teachers to keep up with the demand of standards-based curriculum as well as the individual needs of students, it's important that teachers expose all students to on grade level standards as well as providing time for students to work on their individual needs.  If students are never exposed to on grade level curriculum and are always provided water-down material, then teachers and schools are doing a disservice for those students.  In my school district we provide students with a "skills block" segment within their school day that provides them time and opportunity to work on individual needs.  This ensures that students are provided inclusion and are all receiving on grade level curriculum while also given the time to work on their own needs.  Also in our district we provide all students with a Chromebook.  Within those Chromebook we have the ability to add assistive technology which allows students who may need AT the ability to access it while being able to stay within in the general education classroom.