Office of Exceptional Student Services Program for Children with Disabilities
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Assessment Description
Allocate 6 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Volunteer for 6 hours with one or more organizations in your community that support families with K-12 students with disabilities. Be mindful of the policies and procedures of the organizations in which you volunteer.
In accordance with GCU policy, if you do not have your fingerprint clearance card on file with GCU, you should not work directly with children.
In a 250-500 word reflection, discuss the following:
Your personal frames of reference (e.g., culture, gender, language, abilities, and ways of knowing). Have these changed based on your field experience and other activities in this course?
The expectations you had about being a special education teacher before this course. Have your expectations changed?
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Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.
Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to the LMS at the end of this topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.
Field Experience A: Service and Support
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Field Experience A: Service and Support
The six-hour volunteer allowed students to observe and apply what they learned in their courses in hands-on experiences. I participated in the Office of Exceptional Student Services program for children with disabilities. This opportunity significantly impacted my frames of reference and grounded my determination to become a special education teacher.
Personal Frames
The fact that each child has a specific set of abilities that differentiates them as people who are markedly different from one another, regardless of their language, race, or gender, astounds me. Working in this specific setting refined my beliefs about the value of tailoring activities to the needs of individual special needs children. Although Kong (2015) states independent learners remain easy to instruct, I feel challenged to achieve more in a challenging environment. The most important aspect is to constantly refine my competence, as Majoko (2019) highlighted, to ensure that I remain inclusive and sensitive to all learners.
Expectations
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