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[quote=Anonymous]OP, here is the description of an inclusion preschool classroom from some DCPS materials. Is this what you're concerned about?

10:6 Early Childhood Inclusion Classrooms
Students Served: Students with disabilities served in the general education setting
Grades: PK3-PK4
Contact: Tiffany Galloway, Director, Special Education Inclusion
The 10:6 Early Childhood Education Classroom represents a type of inclusion model used to students with
disabilities in DCPS. Unlike DCPS academic programs like Early Learning Supports (ELS), Communication
Education Supports (CES), and Medical Education Supports (MES), the 10:6 Early Childhood Education Classroom
is a general education classroom and does not constitute a more restrictive environment. The classrooms are
staffed with a general education teacher, a special education teacher, and a paraprofessional and maintain a
student ratio of ten general education students and six students with special needs. Typically, these students
have a Developmental Delay (DD), Other Health Impairment (OHI), demonstrate delays in cognition,
communication, social/emotional, motor and adaptive skills.
Curriculum and Instruction
The Tools of the Mind curriculum allows teachers to work at each student’s individual developmental level and
help the student reach his or her academic goals to ensure that the student is prepared for kindergarten. Children
in the inclusive classroom also have the advantage of increased opportunities to develop their social-emotional
skills such as empathy, tolerance, and understanding of differences as they interact and learn with children who
have different abilities. At the PK3/PK4 level, children with special needs benefit greatly from peer modeling. The
typically developing peers also benefit as they provide support and coaching to their classmates. Children in this
setting are likely to be better problem solvers and more accepting of differences.
Instructors and Staff
Students receive the service hours designated on their IEPs while in a classroom with their peers. Related service
providers support students within the classroom, as outlined on their IEPs. The inclusion classroom is staffed with
either one teacher who is certified in both early childhood education and special education and two trained
classroom instructional paraprofessionals, or one general education teacher and one special education teacher
and two trained classroom instructional paraprofessionals.
Early Childhood Tools of the Mind Classrooms and Ratios
Students (general education/special education): Teachers: Classroom instructional paraprofessionals
Grades: PK3/PK4 (Mixed Age)
16 (10/6):2:1
• Amidon-Bowen • Cleveland
• Garrison • J.O. Wilson
• LaSalle-Backus • School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
• Burroughs
Related Services
Related services are available as identified and outlined in students’ IEPs. [/quote]

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