"We are excited to offer you the fourth edition of Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century. The field of education has evolved into one that requires collaboration among families, communities, and schools. Within schools, special and general educators must collaborate to be effective and efficient in teaching and responding to the demands of new standards, statewide assessments, and calls for education reform. In this fourth edition of Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century, we have refined and updated our content to reflect the role of the special educator while continuing to address the role of the general educator in serving special populations. The fourth edition includes updated references and photographs, changes to the content emphases and discussions to reflect current thought and practice, and additions/ deletions of tables and figures to also reflect current thought. The following section, New Additions to the fourth Edition, outlines more specifics. We would like to stress that this text includes information from DSM-5, the latest from the AAIDD, and other important publications and references that define and influence the field of special education. We are grateful to the instructors and students who have given us their feedback on the text. Their classroom experiences inspired suggested refinements that we incorporated throughout the third edition"--
Provides an overview of special education careers and discusses educational requirements, student teaching experience, the application process, and job opportunities
"This book provides the essentials needed for special educators to become more proficient in teaching students with exceptional needs"--
High-Leverage Practices in Special Education defines the activities that all special educators needed to be able to use in their classrooms, from Day One.
"This book provides the essentials needed for special educators to become more proficient in teaching students with exceptional needs"--
This document presents revised comprehensive standards and guidelines for the preparation and certification of special educators and for practice as special educators, developed by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).
The new Practice-Based Standards for the Preparation of Special Educators is a complete update to the earlier "Red Book," What Every Special Educator Must Know: Professional Ethics & Standards, 7th Edition.
Suggestions for c ulturally and/or linguistically diverse students are included throughout the book. An Appendix provides lesson plan examples for each section of the book.