Schools are required to meet the needs of students with widely varying learning differences. With limited funding, many school systems are unable to provide sufficient accommodation and are required to pay for much more expensive private alternatives.
Here is a way to address Special Needs Problems while providing professional development for teachers — simply and cost — -effectively. Help teachers meet the learning needs of all of their students while helping school systems to avoid draining scarce resources out of their schools.
- Teachers need
- to know that there are actually workable solutions
- help to create systems that benefit all students
- support from someone who understands the perspectives of teachers, students, parents
- support in their efforts to deal with an ever-increasing work load
- interventions that take into account the lack of funding and rising expectations
- Parents need
- to feel respected and heard
- to know that the school is doing all it can do
- to feel they are part of a cooperative team
- to believe their child can succeed in school
- Students need
- to learn how to learn
- to master curriculum
- to feel safe emotionally and physically
- to learn how to function as a full member of a class
- School systems need
- to be able to meet the needs of their students
- to avoid expensive mandated solutions
- to provide teachers with updated, practical in-service training
- Bonnie Glickman offers 30 years experience in special ed, and knows
- the day-to-day struggles of classroom teachers
- what it’s like to be an overworked teacher with special ed kids and limited resources
- what it’s like to be a parent of a special needs child
- what it’s like to be an educational administrator with pressing demands and a limited budget
- how to do simple things to help students pedagogically, emotionally and behaviorally
- how to create a sense of teamwork between home and school
- how to help school systems to avoid lawsuits
- how to improve teacher morale
- how to improve home-school communication