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TEACHING Exceptional Children Archives

2009

A Systematic Approach for Supporting Paraeducators in Educational Settings: A Guide for Teachers Restricted

For instruction to be meaningful, paraeducators need orientation, ongoing feedback and coaching, and strategies for problem solving.

Activity Schedules: Helping Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders in General Education Classrooms Manage Transition Issues Restricted

Activity schedules provide predictability throughout the student’s day and allow a student to anticipate changes in the daily routine.

Aligning Assessment and Instruction with State Standards for Children With Significant Disabilities Restricted

This article shares a teacher’s perspective and approach to planning standards-based instruction for students with significant disabilities.

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2008

“To Find Yourself, Think for Yourself”: Using Socratic Discussions in Inclusive Classrooms Restricted

This article provides a model and guidelines for using the Socratic method to develop students’ critical thinking and writing skills within elementary inclusive classrooms.

50 Ways to Keep Your Co-Teacher: Strategies for Before, During, and After Co-Teaching Restricted

This article uses humor and mnemonics to highlight the keys to effective co-teaching that research and literature have identified. Out purpose is to clarify the critical factors necessary for developing and maintaining a successful co-teaching team.

A Culturally, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention With English Language Learners Restricted

The focus of their brief is to provide an initial framework in the use of RTI that considers students’ life experiences, including their fist and second language, as well as the contexts in which they are taught.

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2007

A Guide to Computer Managed IEP Record Systems Restricted

There are certain salient reatures of computerized IEP systems that administrators or special education teachers need to understand when considering purchasing one of these systems, or when evaluating the features and use of an in-place system.

A Linked System Approach to Early Childhood Special Education Eligibility Assessment Restricted

A description of the problem with determining eligibility for IDEA 2004 using traditional approaches is presented, along with an alternative approach using Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) that fits into a contextual framework called a linked system.

A Model for Implementing Responsiveness to Intervention Restricted

As schools consider implementing RTI, they must make decisions about how to operationalize six components constituting the RTI process.

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2006

Boosting Fluency and Comprehension to Improve Reading Achievement Restricted

This article provides a brief overview of the interventions and details how teachers can combine them into a supplemental reading strategy.

Curriculum Modifications and Accommodations: Why Is This Cake on Fire? Inviting Students Into the IEP Process Restricted

Students with disabilities hear their teachers and parents talk about their IEP meetings, they hear about goals, and they hear about what they are doing wrong and the problems that they are having.

Explaining Your Inclusion Program to Families Restricted

This article presents guidelines, strategies, and resources educators can use to share information with family members about, and consequently develop support for, their inclusion programs. Spencer J. Salend

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2005

"Be Careful What You Wish for . . .": Five Reasons to Be Concerned About the Assignment of Individual Paraprofessionals Restricted

The benefits of providing paraprofessional supports are summarized, research-based reasons for concern about the assignment of individual paraprofessionals are discussed, and considerations are offered for educational teams as they link paraprofessional research with effective practice.

"I Said That?": How to Improve Your Instructional Behavior in Just 5 Minutes Per Day Through Data-Based Self-Evaluation Restricted

A 7-step self-evaluation procedure gives teachers a data-based, systematic strategy to improve their instructional behavior. This strategy enables them to become actively involved in their professional development and can result in long-term personal change.

Adapted Bicycles for Teaching Riding Skills Restricted

Learning how to ride a two-wheel bicycle is taken for granted as a societal norm and rite of passage. For many children with physical and cognitive disabilities, it is a skill beyond their reach. But the adapted bicycle program can help them do something they may have only dreamed about -- ride a two-wheeler down the street like other children.

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2004