Help An Aspiring Teacher Please?

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Hi!

I am working on an educational study of special education and how it has helped or hurt students. I am studying to be a teacher and I am hoping to get assistance from this site and its members. If possible, could you please answer these questions? It isn’t formal and it’s just to further assist me in understanding special education in the world.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Type of educational program attended (elem. Secondary post secondary, if applicable).
Type of elementary or secondary curriculum followed.
Support services available if any? Class placement…Mainstreamed?
Feelings about class placement.
Impressions of staff who worked with you:
Relationships with school peers:
Relationship with neighborhood peers:
Parent/Family interactions
Parent/Family involvement in your learning process
Parent/Family involvement in your educational program
Are you or were you adequately prepared to take the next steps in assuming your role in society today?
Looking Back
What one thing would you have changed and why?
What one thing would you NOT have changed and why?

Thank you!
 
Type of educational program attended (elem. Secondary post secondary, if applicable).
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Totally mainstream ALL the way!
Type of elementary or secondary curriculum followed.
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Academic. In high school I took mostly academic level classes, with one B level class.
Support services available if any? Class placement…Mainstreamed?
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preferential seating, speech therapy, counseling, Resource room for math, spelling and handwriting.
Feelings about class placement.
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I liked taking the same classes that my peers did.
Impressions of staff who worked with you:
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Generally most teachers don't have the training to teach kids with "classic" disabilites. It really does seem like if you're not a super high acheiving student with only minimal accomondations, you get lumped in with the "Ummmm who's President So-and-So?" types who seem to be legion in sped.
Relationships with school peers: They sucked. Especially in jr high!
Relationship with neighborhood peers:Same. My town/area was very whitebread and snobby
Parent/Family interactions
Parent/Family involvement in your learning process: My family was very involbed with both learning and things like IEPs. However, they faced the barrier of not well trained teachers, who had NO clue how to teach someone like me.
Parent/Family involvement in your educational program: see above.
Are you or were you adequately prepared to take the next steps in assuming your role in society today?
Looking Back
What one thing would you have changed and why? I would have changed the automatic assumption that the mainstream was the best place for me. I would have LOVED to had the opertuntity to go to a Deaf School or done part time mainstreaming and attendance at a Deaf unit.
What one thing would you NOT have changed and why? I would have liked the same curriculum.
 
Are you asking for teachers who are working in the Deaf field or asking students or what?? to help fill in those gaps.

Let me know.
 
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