How do we improve special education student’s performance on district wide Texas History assessments? As a former Texas History teacher I saw a huge gap in performance between my special education students and my general education students. This gap only increased as the year went on. Many of my special education students stopped trying, because they felt that they were so far behind. I began to work with a few of my special education students individually and I noticed that their performance in my class improved. Because of this I began to believe that my special education student’s performance on district wide assessments would improve with extra help in this subject area. From doing research tier III of RTI is implemented to help keep students from being referred for special education services, but I believe that it can help students that have already been referred. I have implemented mandatory tutorials for a group of my special education students to see if extra help will close the gap in performance between special education students and general education students. I also provided these students with additional study material to help improve their scores on district wide assessments. This project had two purposes for me, it was intended to satisfy the requirement of an action research topic for this course, and to also help me improve instruction for this sub population. I believe that I succeeded in my goal of not only coming up with an action research topic, but also improving instruction. As a current assistant principal I have used the data gathered in my action research project to help make decisions on how to best improve performance of my students now.
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