Aloha!
This will be a good challange for you and has Prof. Tim said, congratulations, since this shows the trust your Instructor have on you.
On the other hand, these are the kind of students that will teach us more, and even if you don’t suceed (assuming that its not 100% in your hands), you will always learn during the process.
Sharing my personal experience, I think you should not treat them the same. You should give them the same opportunity to suceed, but that is diferente. If you have a student that have special needs, if you treat then as you treat the ones that don´t have any special needs, you are giving less to the first ones. You should give all the same opportunity to suceed. Treating all the studendts the same, in our school means to give the students the tools they need to achive the same goals, and not give them all the same attention.
If I have a talented student that only needs one explanation and he understands what I want, I will focus more of my time the ones that don’t have that same ability. The fear the Instructores have is always if the other students will complain because of the amount of attention you are giving to one student and not to them (and this fear gets bigger if we are talking about kids and their parents). This is a problem, not the students complaining, but you as their Instructor allow them to complain. You are the Instructor and you should decide what is best for all of them...
Coming back to the special needs students, I belive and have experience that you should arrange a time, during the training, were you should give special care to the ones that need. In my case, I pick an older student/assistent (diferent every class) to par up with the ones I know need to work more. I belive that the students will apreciate more the fact that we care about their learning process rather then if we are teaching them diferente or treating them diferent. If you decided to use any of this, of course you need to do all of this in a low profile maner, meaning, you should not expose the student need in front of the entire class...but you should make the diference!
Hope I help...
Aloha & Mahalo,
Prof. Nuno Nunes