Research Question: Should special needs students be integrated into regular academic classrooms?
Further Research: To complete this paper, I must research multiple aspects of many different issues. For example, I must find sources explaining changes that must be made in the classroom in order to accommodate special needs students and the effects those changes will have on the other students in the classroom. Additionally, I intend to research how this change in the classrooms would effect the teacher and their teaching methods. One of my mother's friends has a child with autism who currently is going through the process of joining regular classrooms and I would also really like to interview his parents. An interview such as this will allow me to have research of a first hand account on what the benefits of classroom integration are as well as the challenges. Through this interview as well as the other research I have begun to and intend on doing, I believe I will be able to have a firm understanding on both the positive and negative aspects of this debate.
Significance: I believe this is a significant topic to research for many reasons. First of all, this is a controversy that I will definitely face throughout my career as a special education teacher and therefore is very relevant to me personally. Additionally, integration of special needs students in classrooms, if achieved, will significantly effect the learning environments and classrooms of children nationwide. I also believe that this is a significant issue as it could have both positive and negative effects such as either the increase of understanding and acceptance among society or the increase of bullying in the classroom.
Ultimate Goal: Through researching and analyzing the positive and negative effects of special education and secondary education integration, I intend to learn more about the subject as well as personally form an opinion on the issue. Readers of my paper will also be able to view a factual based paper showing the pros and cons of this subject.
Questions: Will this hold back other students? Will other students be distracted? What are the benefits to the special needs student? What are the benefits to the other students? How will the teachers accommodate special needs students in their classrooms and in their teaching methods, plans, and styles? Will special needs students excel in this setting more so than in a special education classroom? Will this integration become the way of the future?
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