Refer to Box 1.1 Stel Achieves His Great Expectations and to the section Labels and Language to describe the effect others' expectations and biases can have on a student with disabilities. Why do you think special education teachers might sometimes have lower expectations for their students than do general education teachers and parents?
What will be an ideal response?
but will likely touch on: All teachers are subject to bias, so it is important to recognize one's own biases and try to keep those from negatively affecting students. Research has shown that teachers are sometimes biased against students with disabilities (for example, the textbook describes a study where teachers were more likely to say certain students were off-task just because of their disability label). In Stel's story, his own expectations and those of his parents were always high. However, he had to fight against the lower expectations of his teachers
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