Resource Room Model In Special Education

Unpublished doctoral dissertation temple university 1972.

Resource room model in special education.

Resource rooms are used in a variety of ways ranging from instruction homework assistance meetings or representing students alternative social space. The resource room model for educating mentally retarded children. Resource rooms are learning spaces where a special education teacher instructs and assists students identified with a disability. The resource room model in special education.

The number of students in a resource room at a specific time varies but typically consists of at most five students per instructor. The resource room should be taught by a special education teacher not a paraprofessional even one you re assured is trained to help kids with learning differences. Because the resource room removes a child from a general education classroom for even part of the day it is increasing the restrictiveness which is defined and proscribed except when necessary by ideia individual with disabilities educational improvement act. These classrooms are staffed by special education teachers and sometimes paraprofessionals.

Some english language learners are even assigned to resource rooms though erroneously. A resource room is a separate classroom used primarily for students in special education though it can also be a place where other students go to make up work finish tests and receive tutoring. Resource room is a separate setting either a classroom or a smaller designated room where a special education program can be delivered to a student with a disability individually or in a small group. Thoughtco mentioned that resource room is not just a place but also a placement.