"Recognizing Significance: Find a news story that reports on or demonstrates the importance of your field. Explain the significance of the work done in your discipline, using specific examples from the news story and your other blogging sources as evidence."
This article to me demonstrated the importance of special education. As a teacher you are supposed to help students learn. But you also are supposed to be a mentor and for others going into teaching I know that being an inspiration to kids is something we are striving for. This woman’s students feel so close and strongly about her and have this amazing connection that they were able to participate in her wedding. A lot of times kids with disabilities can be closed off to people they aren’t used to. As a teacher it is your job to break through that and create a connection. You are teaching students life skills as well as working on speech and movement skills, and these kid’s disabilities are something that can be sensitive to them so establishing this trust is key. That’s why I feel that this article is an example of the importance of special education because I feel it shows that connection. Some parts to being a special education teacher include teaching basic literacy skills and working with those with severe to mild cognitive, emotional, and physical disabilities. They also work on IEP’s and help kids with other classes and social life. But mostly they work to get to know their student and support them in any way they can. This is the importance of Special Education.
Wow, this is a beautiful story. I think that is so touching and heart warming that she made that bond and connection with her students.
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