Special Education at Madison

Special education teachers work in tandem with general education teachers, the Child Study Team, the students and their families to best plan and implement instruction for each student to ensure their success at school. Teachers ensure that their students have strong foundational skills to build upon as each student makes progress towards their specific, individualized learning goals in the areas of reading, writing, math, behavior and speech.

In reading and writing, knowing letter sounds, recognizing word families and using picture and context clues lay the framework for understanding and learning comprehension skills, like describing character traits and cause and effect. In math, basic facts and the understanding of place value are the building blocks for the 4 operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and problem solving. All students participate in the Responsive Classroom approach to classroom management and sped students learn how to practice these skills in social skills classes.