1. Action Plan Amanda Foster aaa

2. Area of focus

3. Variables:

4. Research Questions How will inclusion of special needs children into the regular classrooms affects all persons involved which include the special needs children, the other children, teachers, and parents? Is inclusion benefitcial to all and does it improve all around learning for both students? What techniques and strategies are there and if and how can they be improved to ensure success for all? How will Implementation of the disabled child into the classroom will affect the class’s average scores as a whole? How Implementation will affect the way the teacher teaches?

5. Intervention At the beginning of the school year, I will start visiting a school that is just implementing the use of inclusion of special needs children into the classroom with the other peers of their grade that do not have special needs. We will test the students as well as the teachers at the beginning of the semester with standardized test as well as attitude scales. At the end of the timeframe of six months, we will test them again to determine if their attitudes change and if their academic performance has been hindered or is improved with the implementation of inclusion of special needs students.

6. The classes will be third grades students mixed female and male participants.There will be six classes included in this intervention project. Three classes will remain the same, with no special needs children in the class. The other three classes will be introduced to the inclusion method of special needs students

7. Top priority is the safety of each individual student. The emotional reflection of each student throughout the study. Justice: “In order for each child to benefit from his or her experiences, schools need to organize the whole idea of education with curriculum and teaching in mind. By adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of special education students, teachers will also adapt the curriculum to closely meet the individual needs of each student in the class (Richeson,).”.

8. Time frame

10. Data collection tools Journals Observation Teacher made test Standardized test Attitude scales Parent surveys Informal ethnographic interview

11. References: Kids Together, Inc(February,2013) inclusion. Retrieved from http://nichcy.org/schoolage/placement/inclusion #top on February 10,2014 http://nichcy.org/schoolage/placement/inclusion #top Richeson, A. (n.d.). Factors affecting the success of inclusion. Retrieved from http://gothenburg.k12.ne.us/StaffInfoPg/Papers/ A_Richeson.pdf http://gothenburg.k12.ne.us/StaffInfoPg/Papers/ A_Richeson.pdf