2. • A public secondary school
located in the College Park
section of Orlando, FL.
•It is operated by the Orange
County Public Schools system
and is an “A” school.
•Total Students- 1876
• Female-53%
•Male-47%
•Total Teachers-93
3. “Edgewater High School is
committed to providing all
students the opportunity to
pursue personal and
academic excellence while
learning to use a variety of
technology tools to
communicate, create, and
problem solve. In this
environment students are
encouraged to engage in
rigorous, relevant, and
real-world experiences,
motivating them to become
life long learners.”
4.
5. Tutor students individually
Help each student finish assignments
Teach students lessons about the importance
of the community
Read with students
Play games such as Uno, Charades, and
Pictionary with students during their free time
Help students clean cafeteria
6.
7. I.D.E.A
“Any individual child with a disability who needs
special
education and related services, even if the child has
not failed or been retained in a course or grade,
and is advancing from grade to grade.”
Intellectual disabilities- limit intellectual
functioning and adaptive behavior,
affecting every day social and practical
skills.
Emotional disturbances- An inability to
learn that cannot be explained by
intellectual, sensory, or health factors. An
inability to build or maintain interpersonal
8. •Traumatic brain injury- Open or closed
head injuries resulting in impairments
in one or more areas. This disability
effects cognition, language, memory,
attention, reasoning, abstract thinking,
judgment, problem-solving, sensory,
perceptual, motor abilities,
psychosocial behavior, physical
functions, information processing, and
speech.
•Visual impairment- The term includes
both partial sight and blindness. This
disability reduces a person's ability to
function at certain or all tasks.
9.
10. •I thoroughly enjoyed
working with Mrs.
Goodspeeds
classroom. These
children taught me so
much through their
eagerness to learn. All
of the individual
tutoring work I did
with the students
involved excitement
on their part which
made it easy for me
to teach them.
11.
12. This community experience gave me a
better understanding of special
education services, emotional
disturbances, and low vision.
Special Education Services are services that are
provided to the student based on his or her disability. Mrs.
Goodspeed did an excellent job of explaining why she
things in the classroom as she did them because she
knew that I could learn from her. When it came to
instructional accommodations, how to simply keep up and
organize the IEP process, and lessons that are beneficial
to teach in an exceptional classroom, Mrs. Goodspeed
provided me with the advice and resources that I would
need.
13. Emotional disturbances are
characterized by behavioral or
emotional responces that are different
from all norms and referent groups with
adverse effects on educational
performance (Tyler, 229) Because
there were two students with emotional
disturbances in the classroom, I
experienced these particular students
acting out a few times in the classroom
where the student would either have a
tantrum for asking to do something
simple or running out of the room
because he refused to do his work. In
both situations, I observed as I saw
how well Mrs. Goodspeed handled the
situations. Both of these students had
14. Low Vision is defined
as the degree of visual
loss when students
can still use their vision
for learning but their
visual disability
interferes with daily
functioning.(Tyler, 376)
Two students in the
classroom also had
Low Vision and I was
able to work with them
These students also had a
a lot throughout the
whiteboard on their desk so
semester. All of their
that when they needed
worksheets and books
assistance, the person who
were blown up into
was helping could use the
larger print so that they
whiteboard to explain.
could see better.
15. Civic Engagement I think service learning is an
Through this activity I saw incredible method of learning
the need for civic as it allows us as college
engagement in Exceptional students to take what we
Education classrooms. All learn in our books and
students in general can through lectures and apply it
benefit from another person in an actual classroom
who can guide them in their setting. The biggest
education and sometimes all weakness I have noticed in
students need is a little myself in a classroom setting
scaffolding instruction in is my ability to want to be a
order to move forward in student’s friend so bad that it
assignments. affects my ability to keep
Volunteering with a Special Education students focused on material
classroom is beneficial to educators and and enables the students to
the community because it teaches life receive the discipline they
skills and useful talents to individuals who need. I would have never
have been dismissed from the society that seen how much I lack in the
they live in. Volunteering also helps area of authoritative teaching
students build confidence in themselves unless I had experience in
and gain energy for new accomplishments. the classroom.
16. I think every educator should
experience service learning
before entering a classroom so
that they can observe their
strengths and weaknesses and
see what techniques work best
when teaching. Throughout my
college experience I have
This experience has given me a noticed how different teachers
desire to be more engaged in the educate so differently, however I
could not imagine Mrs.
future because I witnessed how
Goodspeed teaching the same
much students benefit from one on way the teacher I volunteered
one time. All though it will be tough, I for last year taught. All teachers
want to be able to spend time with are incredible but they have
each of my students when an different ways of teaching that
assignment is given so that they are work best for their teaching
styles. Through service
provided with an opportunity to ask learning, it is possible that you
questions and I am able to will learn what type of teaching
encourage them to keep trying. style works best for you.
17. These students
have impacted
my life in so
many ways. I will
miss coming
home to my
roommates with
all of the stories
involving how
these students
made me smile. I
have never seen
such a desire to
learn from a
group of students
in my entire life.
18. Work Cited
"Edgewater High School in Orlando, FL | Education.com." Education.com |
An Education & Child Development Site for Parents | Parenting &
Educational Resource. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.education.com/schoolfinder/us/florida/orlando/edgewat
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Smith, Deborah Deutsch, and Naomi Chowdhuri Tyler. Introduction to
special education: making a difference. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River,
N.J.: Merrill, 2010. Print.
