Chapter 10

Chapter ten has useful information about students with special needs. As teachers we are responsible for making different accommodations for each student with special needs. The textbook provides different examples of accommodations that may be implemented for students with special learning needs. I think that as teachers it is our responsibility to find the right strategies to help students in any subject, not just science. What surprised me about this chapter was the study about the pendulum problem in response to number of prompts. I wonder if I will be able to come up with prompts so efficient like the prompts mentioned in the textbook. It was amazing how the same prompts helped nondisabled, learning disabled and mild mental retardation students. All the students reached one hundred percent responses but with different number of prompts. It is necessary to take into consideration the students prior knowledge and their special limitations in order to produce a lesson that addresses the issues of all the students in the classroom.