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Morgan Horn

Classroom Consistency Related to Special Needs

This presentation will be on classroom management. The big question addressed is: Why is consistency important in a special education classroom? There are many factors that go into what consistency is and where it takes place. This presentation addresses three main areas of consistency within a special education classroom: within routine and schedule, within policies and procedures, and consistency at home. Each of these areas of focus requires specific attention when working within a classroom with many different students who all have their own disability and IEP’s (Individualized Education Program). As Fred Jones says: “Consistency permits only two conditions. You are consistent, or you are inconsistent. There is nothing in between”. Within special education, this statement still reigns true. 

EDUC 321, Classroom Management

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

10:00 AM – Noon

Morgan Horn

16 going on 7

This poster presentation will address the cognitive development of a student with special needs within the Eugene-Springfield area. Shrek is a sixteen-year-old male who currently attends high school. Research was collected for the case study addressing five domains: cognitive, social, psychological, moral, and physical development. This data was collected over a time frame of 9 weeks. Outside resources as well as data retrieved and recorded from the participant, his family, two close-observing teachers, and a multitude of extant data were used to understand, developmentally, where this student is at during this period of time in his life. Compared to his general education peers, Shrek is functioning at a low-cognitive level and, according to Piaget, would be placed in the Pre-Operational stage in cognitive development. But I believe that he will be able to function relatively well in the world after he leaves high school. 

EDUC 330 Child Development

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

10 AM – Noon