Kaylee Colter "So you want to be a teacher"

Reading the introduction to the text book has already got me thinking about all the different students that I will get to teach when I become a teacher, I haven’t really thought about teaching exceptional students before and all the unique challenges that will come with teaching. It is clear that we as teacher will have to be very opened to different ways and rates of learning that will change with each individual student. In the classroom that I am in this year there is an autistic student and she requires a little bit more help when all the students are doing individual work, but she is still leaning the same things that all the other students are. Sometimes she is a little bit slower at completing her work and she has a lot harder time staying focused but it is great to see her being involved in all the same activities as the rest of her class, so that she feels included and no different from any of the other students.

After reading the four steps to fallow on how to improve the quality of learning, step two is still a little bit unclear to me, it seems too broad. Decide what you will do about the concern, I guess once we are further into the class I will have more ideas about what to do at this step.

How can we make sure that our exceptional students are getting the extra help they need without neglecting the other students in the classroom?