Teach all the students.

As a teacher and consultant in special education for many years, I have learned many wonderful ideas from other teachers and studied and experienced much myself. I also have attempted to keep myself current with my own education and recently reached the halfway mark on my doctorate degree, for which I may not opt to finish the research portion. I also have had the opportunity to teach several graduate level classes to general and special education teachers at 2 universities. I have enjoyed sharing ideas with these teachers about recognizing that all the students in the class are on a continuum and have uniques learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses. I don't begin to believe any teaching situation can be easy, but I try to help teachers with strategies that are most effective for the child and most efficient for them. I also try to stress that all the children in their class are theirs simply because they are the only teacher that student has during that time frame for that subject.