Write 3500 words in response to the question:
How can special educators and classroom teachers provide effective classroom teaching aligned with small group or individual intervention (layered learning intervention) for students with disabilities?
You will consider:
- Responsive teaching and educational casework processes
- Professional skills and expertise of responsive classroom teachers and learning support teachers (special educators)
- Evidence informed layered learning intervention (including embedded assessment in responsive teaching and educational casework)
What is this about?
The textbook for this unit provides a conceptualisation of how inclusive classroom teachers and special educators (or other educational caseworkers like educational psychologists) can work together to provide responsive classroom teaching complemented by more educational casework and appropriate small group or individual intervention. This is an attempt to bring together inclusive classroom teaching and special education, and thus use both professional approaches to provide the best possible education for students with disabilities. In this assessment task you are to start with the ideas in this book, Berman & Graham (2018) and explore them in reference to other academic and professional literature. You will probably have experience in which classroom teaching and specialist intervention operate as separate dimensions of education for a learner, and are not necessarily aligned, and thus the power of them both are diminished. Based on your reading and thinking, and your professional experience take this opportunity to generate ideas about how this can work in practice – think big!