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I need to write several open ended interview questions about the assumption that underlies organizational improvement in my school system. I work with special need students and I have no idea where to start. These questions should reflect appreciative inquiry. He states that two of the questions should focus on the problem and two on the solution. My problem is I have an issue with the way the way the special needs students are treated. We still have teachers and especially administrations in these schools that does not know how to deal with the children with special needs.

I am a new teacher however, I have worked as a substitute teacher for years. My problem is that I see highly qualified teachers that seem like they are nervous around these special needs students. Autistic students were being totally over looked for everything last year for their senior year. Some of these kids did not need to be in this resource class. But to keep from bothering with them this is where they put them. The principal doesn't speak up for these children. There is so much more to these children than these teachers will ever know unless they open up and talk to them.

I really feel that resource class is a hold back but I do know for sure they need to deal with these special need students and the school staff and personnel do better toward them.

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Positive questions designed to bring about better conditions for special education students at school.

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Appreciative inquiry is the idea that focusing on the positives is the best way to ask for what you need. Saying positive things helps put your requests into terms that can be more favorably heard, thus helping people be more receptive to what you are asking from them - when they can see you are not combative, and that you do appreciate all that they have been doing for you already.

In this particular situation, it appears (from your viewpoint) that "problem" children are placed into a resource class (not mainstreamed, or included in the general population) for the convenience of the regular education instructional staff. This practice, if this view is accurate, is a violation of federal law. The law states that children with special needs must be placed in the least restrictive education environment possible. Students capable of inclusion in regular classes, even one class per day (perhaps with the help and assistance of a paraprofessional or special education co-teacher) are legally entitled to be so placed. Perhaps one of your problem questions might be what criteria indicates that a child needs to be placed in a resource (restricted) classroom setting, and what criteria indicates a child is capable of ...

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