My Experience

• Do you have any experience (personal/professional) with an individual with exceptionalities?

I have had experience with an individual with exceptionality, in the last year I have had the opportunity to be a paraprofessional for special needs. I absolutely loved being in the classroom with them, but  I must admit there were times to where it was a challenge for me due to their disability.  The trouble within the classroom was that  certain  things constantly changed every week just because a certain thing was not working in the classroom. When I would come in the next week, I never knew what to expect  I just knew things were going to change that week. The main thing I saw that seemed  stressful out of all things was the paper work. Each student  had a different disability, that was the hard part and their were certain days to where some of them hadn't taken their medicine which caused them to act completely different and made them disrupt the classroom. So this over all experience was a good one, because it allowed me to see how things operated. One thing I did notice was that some of the students were barley in the regular classroom, which made it even harder for some of the teachers to come up with things for those students to do because they knew eventually they would leave again. So some things I would say as a classroom teacher I would have to do is, always have something for them to do and make sure that they are able to do the work, I need to always have some type of work or activity for them to do in order to keep the occupied. If I don't have anything for them to work on or anything for them to focus on then more than likely  they will interrupt my classroom, in order to seek attention.