Posts Tagged Special Education

Online Colleges – Degree Opportunities

Students who are debating which educational path to take with regard to potential career prospects now have an innovative way to earn their degree – through an online college!

Today, candidates that are seeking a unique and comprehensive academic plan can literally let their fingers do the walking on a nearby keyboard to find an accredited online college; which often provides an exceptional medley of diverse disciplines from which to choose.

Whether you are searching for an Associate’s degree or a Doctorate, online colleges can open the world of knowledge through the stroke of your fingertips. Subsequently, online college degree programs frequently mirror traditional college syllabi, and may be quite course intensive.

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Related posts

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?

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Related posts

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

Read the rest of this entry »

  • Share/Bookmark
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Related posts