Professional Standards

Evidence-Based Practices
Highly Qualified Teachers
Standards - Newly Updated!

Evidence-Based Practices

• PowerPoint on CEC's Evidence-Based Practice Initiative
  
  
• Research Papers: Criteria for Evidence-based Practice*

  CEC Evidence-Based Professional Practice Proposal

  Evaluating the Quality of Evidence From Correlational Research for Evidence-based Practice

  Quality Indicators for Group Experimental and Quasi-experimental Research in Special Education

  The Use of Single Subject Research to Identify Evidence-based Practice in Special Education

  Qualitative Studies in Special Education

  Research in Special Education: Scientific Methods and Evidence-based Practices

  * These papers were published in Exceptional Children Vol 71-2 (Winter issue).

Highly Qualified Teachers

• CEC Resources on Highly Qualified Requirements for Special Education Teachers
  The highly qualified requirements for special education teachers, as set forth in the 2004 IDEA and NCLB, are complex and it is important that special educators understand how these requirements affect them and their practice.
  Read CEC's Resource on Highly Qualified.

Standards

• Accreditation Standards for CEC/NCATE Approval

• Search for a CEC/NCATE-accredited program in your state.

• Initial Knowledge and Skill Sets:

Content Standards
Content Standards: Gifted and Talented
Blind or Visually Impaired
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Developmental Disabilities and Autism
Early Childhood
Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Gifts and Talents
Individualized General Education Curricula
Individualized Independence Curricula
Learning Disabilities
Physical and Health Disabilities

• Advanced Knowledge and Skill Sets:

Content Standards
Administrators
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Specialists
Develop. Disabilities and Autism Specialists
Diagnostic Specialists
Early Childhood Specialists
Inclusion Specialists
Technology Specialists
Transition Specialists

• Paraeducator Knowledge and Skill Sets:

Common Core Standards
Interveners for Individuals with Deafblindness

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The "Red Book": 

Members, download the free PDF version

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Other Publications:

• Standards Reference Master
  
  
• The CEC Paraeducator Standards Workbook
  
  
• Aligning Transition and Standards-Based Education
  
  
• Definition of a Well-Prepared Special Education Teacher