Working with Staff in an Inclusion Setting: Collaboration and Teaming in the Inclusion Process
Working successfully as a special education teacher in an inclusion classroom takes teamwork. This course outlines the responsibilities teachers have in the collaborative process, how to meet these responsibilities through fostering collaborative relationships, and how to accommodate students with exceptionalities and other at-risk students.
Service Delivery Models in an Inclusion Classroom: What Special Educators Need to Know
Relationships develop among the many individuals working together to design optimal educational programs for students with disabilities. This course provides a general overview of the various service delivery models often found in inclusion classrooms.
Working with Parents in Special Education
Building positive partnerships with parents yields important benefits for students' education. This course offers insights into the issues, concerns, fears, and techniques that reassure parents whose children are in special education.
Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families in Special Education
Special educators deal not only with a diversity of children with disabilities but also with children from a diversity of cultural backgrounds. This course highlights diversity in the classroom, and the roles and responsibilities teachers have in working with these children and their families.
Classroom Management Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities
Considering that 50% of all students in special education have been classified with learning disabilities, this knowledge is critical to any special education teacher's success when working with these children. This course focuses on focus on classroom management strategies for children with learning disabilities.
Classroom Management Strategies for Students with Autism
Autism is a disorder characterized by severe impairments of social, emotional, and intellectual functioning. This course is geared to the needs of special education teachers working in an inclusive classroom with children with autism. It will focus on specific management needs and effective classroom strategies when working with these children
Curriculum Adaptations and Modifications for Children with Special Needs
Students with disabilities can experience difficulty with academic instruction at any age and in any subject. This course provides special education teachers with the practical information on adapting the curriculum and recommending and providing the appropriate modifications that can help these children succeed in school.
Behavioral Management Strategies in the Inclusion Classroom
Effective classroom management requires maintaining a positive, supportive atmosphere. This course covers a variety of classroom management techniques that have been proves to be successful in inclusion settings and will increase teacher's confidence in their management skills.
Promoting Positive Social Interactions among Students with and without Disabilities in an Inclusion Setting
This course explores the goals of social interaction in an inclusive setting, the variables that might interfere with perceived acceptability, teacher efficacy, and other factors that may enhance success or create obstacles in reaching this goal. Specific and practical techniques are discussed.