Special educators from Kaohsiung Taiwan visited schools in Hacienda La Puente District (CA, US) and, according to a story by Leland Ornelaz, apparently the message they will take home is inclusion. Writing in the Whittier (CA, US) Daily News, Mr. Ornelaz reported that Beth Nishida of the California schools showed high school models of co-teaching to the teachers and administrators from the National Kaohsiung Normal University (a place I visited happily last spring).
Special education students mix with the general population at Los Altos. They learn together and are held to the same educational standards, Nishida said.
Each class has two teachers: one to teach the class and one to aid special education students.
Tsuey-shiang Lin, a principal, said most special education students in Taiwan attend programs that separate them from others.
“Here, we can’t distinguish general education students from special education students,” Lin said.
The delegation will use what they have learned to improve Taiwan’s special education system.
Do you think that’s the most important thing that one should learn from visiting US schools?
Link to Mr. Ornelaz’s story.
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