In With the In Crowd – Inclusive Education
September 1, 2010 in Special Needs News by Admin Dawn
As I write this, kids are going back to school almost everywhere but in New York City. The first day of school isn’t until September 8 here, and thanks to Rosh Hashanah, our second day isn’t until September 13. I think our last day of school this year will be around Tisha B’Av.
Something else is different for my kids this year: They’ll both be in inclusion classes. “Inclusion” is when students with special educational needs spend all or most of their class time with non-disabled students. My kids’ public school is starting “collaborative team teaching” classes for the first time—that’s when a special-education teacher and a general-education teacher work together with one class that combines both populations.
Read more here: In With the In Crowd – by Marjorie Ingall > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life.
