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Michael Byrge Ed. Psych Practicum Dr. Ncube December 12, 2002 Teaching Special Needs Children What’s my patience level? How well will I deal with stressful situations? Will I find myself becoming irritated when a child doesn’t immediately grasp a concept? These are questions I needed to ask myself before deciding on a career in teaching children with special needs. Special education is a unique field. It has to address the specialized skills that are required to work with children who have challenging needs, while at the same time acknowledging that there is actually more of a commonality than difference between special and traditional education. But unlike traditional education, where children are personally responsible, at least in part, for what they learn, the special education student has more reliance on the teacher to provide for him: to show him how to learn. It’s been my observation that teacher behavior very often has a direct and immediate effect on the behavior and learning of the children. For instance, teacher praise: while an important part of any educational experience seems to have a more profound effect on the special needs child. These children are often more sensitive to both praise and criticism, than the child in a traditional setting. I had to ask myself if I were the sort of person who could recognize this aspect and who was attuned to the sensitivities of the special needs child.
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