Reflection On Fairness

Fairness to me is the quality of being free from bias and making judgements that are free from injustice and discrimination. I think fairness in a classroom is about treating every student fairly by not treating them in the same way. Usually when people hear the word “fairness”, they would automatically assume that it means everybody having an equal amount after dividing whatever it is or everyone being treated the same. But in reality, that doesn’t work at all because everyone is different in their own way. Especially when we add students with disabilities into the mix, then there is more to consider. People have to consider what would be fair to students with disabilities when we place them along normal students in a classroom. In an

When thinking about the concept of fairness, the two strategies we can use in effort to produce fairness would be equality and equity. Equality is treating everybody the same while equity simply put is giving everyone what they need to be successful. How can we expect to treat everybody the same and get the same results when everyone has different needs and different learning methods? In the classroom that I did my observation, I saw a quote on the wall made by the teacher that I thought best describe this. The quote says “Fair isn’t about everybody getting the same thing, fair is everybody getting what they need to be successful. So, this quote to me means that if everyone gets what they need to help them become successful, then everybody succeeds. W-hen everybody succeeds that is what fairness is: everybody having an

The purpose of modifications is to work toward a lower standard or goal that is appropriate to the ability level of the student and possibly working on less content or readily compared content at a lower grade level than the student is currently. An example of accommodations can be extra time to complete test as the extra time will significantly improve test scores of students with disabilities. Speech to text software can be used for writing assignments making it easier on them, audio taped texts to supplement text so they can listen to it instead of reading, and letting them respond orally for some written assignments can be some more examples. These accommodations are the means of opportunity to triumph over the restrictive aspects of the barrier while participating in the process of education. Examples of modifications may be an expectation to master say four of ten concepts in a math class or allowing them to work on subtraction and addition while other students works on their multiplication and