In addition, 1 LD is ADHD and medicated, 1 EFL is ADD and not (mom agrees w/accommodations granted for problems, but will not medicate kid as advised by Dr, as long as kid behaves, school says ok to that).
1 teacher w/ no SPED training, but w/a Masters in something called Curriculum. She can speak French, the first language of 2 of the ESL kids, but all classroom instruction is in English, so the kids are expected to be reasonably conversant and be able to read fairly well by this age/Grade.
No trained/assigned in-class aides, only volunteer moms on occasion to help control chaos/keep order/help do bulletin boards, clean up after projects/restock supplies, run errands, help with lunches, etc.
Pull outs for LD, ASD, G&T; once or twice a week. Lots of self-led/directed work done independently by the G&T kids, plus some major group projects the whole class will work on.
Differentiated instruction for all, daily.
The school psych comes in to observe and make recommends if more pullouts are needed. A reading specialist pops in to help with children having difficulty with that when they focus on that.
OT and Speech therapy for LD kids takes place after school for 35 minutes twice a week. My child, G&T, may participate in that.
Pullouts during the day are 45 mins each; no more than 1 per day per kid.
Sound workable and with a good rate of success for all types in the class, withis teacher to ration, and these types of issues and no in-class aides?
Any teachers/moms with classrooms that are similar that can predict/say?
