Word Reflection

Looking at the importance of special education teachers having a thorough understanding of science of reading, Scarborough’s Reading Rope, and the levels of phonological awareness, the special education has to think about reading and writing. Reading and writing is very instrumental to students while they are in school. Students are still learning how to read and how to correctly write in every grade they are going into. The English language uses the alphabetic writing system which includes letters and single speech sounds (Moats et al, 2025). In knowing that, students can separate words by identifying sounds, recognizing their identity, then putting the words together (Moats et al, 2025). 

As the teacher, you want all of the students to learn in the classroom even when they have disabilities. The four ways that the teacher can meet all of their students' needs is by tailoring teaching for all learners, making differences less “different”, providing support and creating high expectations for all. Looking at teaching for all learners, all students learn differently inside of the classroom; the teacher must design the way they teach by having the students go into small groups so they can receive differentiated instruction (The Understood Team, 2025). When it comes to making differences less “different”, students are allowed to express themselves in the way they are learning because all students learn differently. Then they find out that they have a lot of things in common when they express the way they are learning to their peers (The Understood Team, 2025). Providing support to all of the students will consist of some of the students getting pulled out of the classroom by speech pathologists, speech therapists, reading therapists, and etc. These people will help the students more as they keep on progressing inside of the classroom (The Understood Team, 2025). Every student should have any type of support while they are in school no matter if they have a disability or not. Lastly, creating high expectations for all, each student that has a disability will be on an IEP. On those IEPs, each student will have to complete goals yearly or bi yearly in which the students will show progress or will not proceed on with their progress (The Understood Team, 2025). With my experience in working with students with disabilities, it will require a village to help support the students in the classroom and outside of the classroom. Also, the different professionals that help the students in the classroom will provide them with the necessary services needed for them to succeed in the classroom as well as the outside world. For example, students will need services that will help them get jobs, special living, and etc to begin their adulthood.