Book Review

I have personally worked with an Inclusion class while I took on a permanent substitute teacher position at a Middle School in Tuscaloosa. The kids were very rowdy and did not like to do much work. As I came into the class and became comfortable with being the teacher I was able to calm the students down and got them involved with the lesson. The students were some that had behavioral problems but most of them were in the class because they performed low on their test and in class. With my other classes I was able to do a complete lesson and start the next one during class, but with this group I had to take my time and go over the lesson with them. I would take us 2 days to normally go over a lesson. I also had in this class a few students that were Hispanic and that could not really understand what I was saying, so I had to work with them on a one on one basis so that they could get the lesson. A lot of my student that were in this class could not read some of the words and did not understand what the words meant. I was able with my other students to go over the Science lesson and give them some work to do out of the book and workbook and they could do that with no problem, but the inclusion class could not do that. I also had an advance class that I was able to over 2 full lessons with them in one day. When it was test time for my inclusion class, I gave them the test a day ahead of everybody else with one correct answer and one wrong answer for them to look the right answer up in the book and use that as their study guide. With my other classes I was just able to tell those that we are having a test and that you need to study what we just finish going over. It would take my inclusion class about two days to finish the test, and times I would let them pull out their study guide and use that on the test. Some would still not pass the test after that.  Working with students with different backgrounds and students with disabilities is a challenge to some teacher but not to others. I think that I was one of those teachers that at first it was a challenge to me but after about two weeks I was able to handle them with no problems. Having students that were Hispanic was a big challenge to me but I was able to overcome it, because we worked together as a team and was able to get through the school year.