¶ … common core standards affect students with exceptionalities? Should we apply these standards to students with exceptionalities? Why or why not?
A lot of teachers and parents have shown great concerns related to the system of education presented for the students with special needs with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in different states (IDA, 2015 ). These Standards are challenging and tough for the general students alone and they are made that way, so it is a bit incomprehensible to provide the same standard to the children who require special attention. These children are already going through a tough time in learning as compared to the general students and applying the Common Core Standards would make it difficult for these students to go through the learning procedure (Smith, 2014). Many educators and parents argue that testing the students with special needs with the same learning standards as of the general students is unfair and unrealistic. They state that the children with special needs require focus on life skills rather than academics as the life skills would help them in the longer run in life, so restricting them to the same standard as of everyone is not fair to the disabled...
A student in eighth grade, already going through difficulties in reading texts with sentence and vocabulary complexity that are above her or his level would find it easy to learn all that on his own level. Similarly an autistic student who finds it easy to learn through simple social situations would be able to learn much quicker than if he is forced into using the difficult standards that are fixed upon him. As research shows, restricting the students to the curriculum that is beyond their capacities lowers their level of achievement. The main goal of the Common Core Standards is to help provide success to every student, however that success can only be achieved if the cognitive diversity of every student is kept in mind when making the standards (Beals, 2014).
2. In what significant ways can the Common Core Standards be integrated into students' IEPs?
In order to meet the standards of achievement, the students require instructions that are aligned with the academic…
