Posts Tagged Instruction
Ten Myths About Homeschooling and Anti-Homeschooling Excuses
Prospective homeschool parents have to face fears, doubts and myths that keep them from taking the decision to homeschool their children. This article is an attempt to do some myth-busting, dispel the fears and disqualify the anti-homeschooling excuses that prevent many parents from the awesome experience of homeschooling their families…(yes, not just the kids, the parents get HOME schooled too!)
1. I don’t get on with my kids/ My kids have bad attitudes/ My kids won’t listen to me.
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Fostering a unified approach to RTI and special education
WHAT IS A “UNIFIED APPROACH” TO SPECIAL EDUCATION, AND HOW DOES RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION fit in? To find out, Achievement Today interviewed two prominent experts in special education: Alexa Posny, Kansas Commissioner of Education and formerly Director of the Office of Special Education Programs for the U.S. Department of Education, and Judith Hackett, superintendent of the Northwest Suburban Special Education Organization in Illinois and president of the Illinois Alliance of Administrators of Special Education.
How should educators think about Response to Intervention as it relates to special education?
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Training teachers to address the needs of students with severe mental retardation
Children with severe mental retardation are becoming an integral part of public education, and spending increasing amounts of time in regular classrooms. Teachers and teacher educators are being confronted with the complex educational, social, medical, and psychological needs of these young children. In reviewing the current practices of classroom activities, it is constructive for teacher educators to reflect on mental retardation as it relates to the concept of educability. One operational example of educability is presented in the story of Helen Keller.
The Lesson of Helen Keller
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