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  • Special Education Teachers: Careers in Special Education…Created: 2009-11-01 @ 22:38:37 EST     
    Special education opportunities are growing as teachers prepare to retire and more and more children qualify for special education services. Not only are teachers needed, but also classroom para-p…
  • Speech Language Pathologists Jobs: Career Opportunities for Speech …Created: 2009-11-01 @ 14:56:12 EST     
    Speech Language Pathologists also called speech therapists provide services to special education children. They help improve articulation, receptive language, augmented communication, language pra…
  • Special Education Students and Grief: Helping Special Education Stu…Created: 2009-10-31 @ 18:32:36 EDT     
    Special education students are exposed to loss of friends, grandparents, and pets and their inability to express grief may lead to difficult behaviors. Helping children understand and express diff…
  • Jobs for Occupational Therapists in Special Education: Occupational…Created: 2009-10-30 @ 16:37:08 EDT     
    Occupational therapists provide services to students with disabilities, teaching life skills such as eating, dressing, tooth brushing,…
  • Special Education Jobs: Jobs in Special Ed Without College Degrees…Created: 2009-10-29 @ 23:14:19 EDT     Updated: 2009-10-30 @ 17:09:25 EDT
    Jobs are available in Special Education that do not require a college degree, including therapeutic support staff and classroom aides…
  • Jobs in Special Education: A Special Education Teaching Career will…Created: 2009-10-29 @ 22:02:01 EDT     Updated: 2009-10-29 @ 23:00:15 EDT
    Special Education teaching jobs require certification, which may require a special bachelors or masters degree. Emergency certification is available through school districts or state approved scho…
  • A Table Rubric for A Report on AnimalsCreated: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:33 EDT     
    A Rubric for a class project about animals is presented, demonstrating how to create a rubric as a way to define and evaluate project expectations. A rubric can be modified according to the ability…
  • Dealing With Difficult Parents - Special Education Teacher…Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Dealing with difficult parents is often part of being a special education teacher. Dealing with them successfully may call on skills such as reflective listening, maintaining objectivity, documenti…
  • General Education Teachers: Communicating in Inclusive Settings.…Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    General education teachers are critical in today's environment focused on inclusion and Least Restrictive Environment. It means supporting the general ed classroom by modeling adaptations to assig…
  • Special Education Parents: How to communicate…Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Special educators need to build collaborative relationships through parents. Here is advice on how to avoid pitfalls, create positive messages and reciprocal communication that helps and not hurts…
  • New Year's Resolutions for Special Education Teachers…Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    As we sail through the holiday season, it's good to take time to evaluation how the first semester has gone, while you have some time to create new routines, think about your behavioral reinforceme…
  • Getting Students Organized - Special Education…Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Tips to help teachers organize students…
  • Routines for Classroom ManagementCreated: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Establishing and teaching routines is an effective way to begin the school year, to effectively structure the school day and create an orderly environment for teaching and learning…
  • Token Systems Build CooperationCreated: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    This article offers three kinds of token economies, involving points, tickets and money to reward appropriate behavior and academic effort. Reinforcement is through purchasing prizes, a raffle or …
  • Back to School - Special Education TeachersCreated: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Learn some ways to have a successful beginning to your school year. Learn how to organize your classroom, your students, establish routines and rules and use a token system to reinforce the kinds …
  • Building Partnerships with Parents and Teachers…Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    At the beginning of a new school year, a special educator needs to take time to build partnerships with parents and general education teachers to assure a successful year to their special education…
  • Specially Designed InstructionCreated: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Specially Designed Instruction is one of the most important parts of an Individual Education Plan (IEP) because it legally binds members of the school community to provide certain accomodations and…
  • How to Make a Rubric for DifferentiationCreated: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Learn how to create rubrics that can be used to structure assignments and evaluate student work in an inclusive classroom…
  • Differentiating Instruction for SuccessCreated: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Differentiated instruction for students with and without disabilities in an inclusive classroom involves planning that uses multi-sensory presentation of information, especially a strong visual com…
  • A Science Lesson on Mammals for Differentiated Instruction…Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    This article demonstrates how to differentiate a science lesson using collaboration, strong visual elements, and assessment methods built on strengths…
  • What Are Specific Learning Disabilities?Created: 2009-10-22 @ 16:08:24 EDT     
    Children with Specific Learning Disabilities, or SLD's, is the fastest growing population of special education students whose difficulties require special education services, but are best served in…
  • Must Reads: Essential Articles and Resources about SpecialedUpdated: 2009-11-02 @ 18:49:07 EST
  • Dyslexia and reading disabilities,Updated: 2009-02-02 @ 17:57:48 EST
    Dyslexia symptoms and definition, reading disability…
  • Learning Disabilities ChecklistsUpdated: 2009-01-22 @ 17:13:54 EST
    Characteristics of learning disabilities, learning disabilities checklists…
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