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Reflection
Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment was for me to develop a personal philosophy statement about
beliefs around the meanings, purposes, and processes related to collaboration within special
education. Some questions to consider for this project directly from the assignment, included:
What are the important time points in a students education in which collaboration
should occur?
Taking the above questions into consideration, I explained what I believe to be important for
What you learned from this assignment and its contribution to your development as a special
educator.
When completing this assignment, I quoted Cook and Friend (2010) The State of the Art of
successful in some settings and functions as a catalyst for accomplishing significant school
reform. In other settings, however, collaboration exists as a series of informal relationships that
are fragile and person-dependent I still feel this is a very relevant quote. The importance of
being able to collaborate with other professionals is essential to the success of the students we
are assisting.
At the end of the course, we were asked to reevaluate this personal philosophy statement if
needed. I felt just as strongly at the end of the course as I did when I originally wrote this.
Looking back at the assignment today, I still understand that the successes and failures of some
students come down to collaboration amongst the educators working with them. For me, this