Philosophical Statement I believe that collaboration is one of the key factors in having an inclusive classroom. I feel that every student should benefit from this, not just the special education student. Collaboration requires every person to have buy in into the …show more content…
A good example of these types of screening for reading would be the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) (What are DIBELS?, 2016) progress monitoring assessments. Another form of screening I have available to me is formative assessments, which can help me determine how the students are doing. The third tool is data collection. I believe this will help me identify behavior issues. I have to define the behavior that is inappropriate, for example, not staying on task. Then I have to focus on recording the frequency, rate, and duration of a behavior that may interrupt the learning of any student. According to Lee, Vostal, Lylo and Hua, data collection should focus on answering two questions: does the behavior happen often enough to require intervention? The second is does the intervention change the behavior (Lee, D. L., Vostal, B., Lylo, B., & Hua, Y., 2011, p.