Diversity and Learning MAT 605

IDEA IDEIA  Websites

 
While searching for information about IDEA or IDEIA 2004 I found IDEA Partnership located at http://www.ideapartnership.org/.  This organization is a national group, and works collaboratively with organizations from all fifty states.  This website is their to help transform how we work with students with disabilities and the potential outcomes of this work. This website has several links to information ranging from Autism research, info on collaboration of NCLB and IDEA, and responses to interventions.  It also has information and an overview of the Common Core Standards, plus much more that you can look at.

I found this interesting because it is a great place to get information about helping students.  This information is collaborative so you have several groups involved and not just one view point. This information can also be really helpful to parents who have children with disabilities. 

I found this website to be very interesting and will use it to get information about educating students with special needs.

I have also found links to help with learning about IDEA.
 From ED.gov
http://idea.ed.gov/explore/home

 National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
http://nichcy.org/laws/idea

These websites help with learning about the IDEA law.  It is also  a helpful source for both parents and teachers in helping students with disabilities.  As a teacher the second website from the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities gives you training for helping students with disabilities.  I will use all three of these websites as helpful resources in my work as a teacher.


Posted September 25, 2012 at 8:45

 

Parents as Partners in the IEP Process

Here is a link from the Utah Parent Center,  The link is the Parents as Partners in the IEP Process.  
 

This handboook is a really helpful resource in understanding the IEP process.  It gives you an in depth look into the IEP processes both a parent and or teacher.  It tells you what to expect when you start working on student IEP's, and the guidelines that must be met in the IEP.  I will use this as a teacher as well as recommend to parents who have children in special ed. 

Posted September 25, 2012 at 8:28










Council for Exceptional Children

 
Here is a link to to the Council for Exceptional Children:
 
 
Under the Support for Teachers tab on the left menu I found three articles that I found rather interesting.
 
CEC Releases New Standards for Advanced Roles in Special Education
The article discusses the new standards that the CEC are using to outline what special education teachers need to know if they want to seek an advanced degree or certification, administration, and higher education. 
I found this article to be very informative because, I believe that as a teacher I want to be the best that I can be.  This article helps with this need.  I found it very interesting and beneficial to not only special educators but to all teachers. 
 
Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork
by, Lynne Cook and K. Sarah Hall
As a teacher we must become accustomed to paperwork.  This is particularly important to special education teachers.  In this article Cook & Hall discuss strategies that can make paperwork less taxing.  This article is very helpful because it gives several strategies to help with paperwork.  I will use these strategies to help with paperwork. I really like the strategy of time-saving that Cook & Hall suggest, they say to create progress charts and maintain portfolios so you can monitor student progress.  I also like the idea of involving the student in the IEP process.  Including the student in the IEP process gives the student a chance to monitor themselves.  I love this idea.
 
Supervising Paraeducators- What Every Teacher Should Know
by, Nancy French
For three years I worked as a paraprofessional.  I found this article interesting because it is gives four ways to monitor paraprofessionals.  They are Actively Involve Paraprofessionals, Conduct First- Hand Observations, Focus Observations on Tasks Assigned to the Paraprofessional, and Use Written Data to Provide Feedback.   As a special education teacher I will be working with paraprofessionals.  It is important that they understand what is required of them and to make sure they are doing what you as the teacher wants them to do.  I have been fortunate that I had really good relationships with the teachers who I worked with, they were open with me and gave me feedback on what I could do differently.  Because paraprofessionals are not licensed teachers it is important to have an open relationship with them.  I will use these suggestions when I work with paraprofessionals and hopefully I will have an open relationship with the paraprofessionals I work with.
 
Posted October 2, 2012 at 9:44 am
 

"IDEA's Exact Words" and "The Short Story on Supplementary Aids and Services"

 
Here is a wonderful site that you can go to in order to get information regarding IDEA.
This web page discusses IEP's in detail most importantly about aids and services your child can receive.  Supplementary aids and services are given to students who need additional help and they are also used in order to make sure that the student with special needs can be educated (as much as possible) with those who are in the general education classroom.  These aids and services should be considered on an individual basis, because each student is different.
 
I found this web page to be very informative, because when you have a child with special needs all the information can be over whelming.   It is nice to have short and condensed pieces of information so then you know what to expect.  I will refer to this website when discussing individualized supplementary aides and service plans with parents. 
 
Posted October 7, 2012 at 9:25 pm
 

Assisted Technologies



Here is a website for the Utah Augmentative Alternative Communication and Technology Teams
This website presents several wonderful choices in helping your student with school. Here are three of my favorites.
1.mathscore.com
This website gives additional support to help students in math.  They offer help starting in Kindergarten and ending at Algebra 1.  This is a great help for not just students with special needs but for all students.  I will recommend this to any family who needs additional math support.
2. Family Village
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/
This website is designed for people with special needs, families with member who have special needs and professionals.  What I love about this website is that it is for a  person who has special needs not just the family members.  This website gives information, and resources to help persons with disabilities.  I will tell people about this website since it is such a well rounded resource.
3. Utah State Office of Special Education.
http://www.schools.utah.gov/sars/
This is a wonderful resource to have because it gives the information about services, and assessments that is helpful to know when you have a child with special needs.  I will give this website to parents when we first start working with them. That way they know what is going on and what will be needed for the future. This website is a must for anyone who has a child with special needs in Utah public schools.

Posted October 7, 2012 at 9:57 pm
 
 



Mindsteps

Here is a link to the minstep website.
 
 
Mindsteps is a website that provides a partnership with teachers in the classroom.  One resource Mindsteps provides is that of differentitated instruction which means realizing and understand how people are different and how to teach students of all abilitys and making sure that they are learning.  This is important because not every child learns the same so as teachers we have to use different teaching techniques in the classroom.
 
Here is a reference quide to Differentiated Instruction:

Here is a planning sheet from Mindset:

Here is an example of a unit plan I have chosen the U.S. History plan.  
History Differentiated Unit Plan

I love the idea of this website.  These items give a great step by step plan to how to implement differentiated instruction.  I will use this as a great guide when I become a teacher.
Posted October 15, 2012 at 2:49 pm
 

Serge

This is a link to the Serge website.
 
This website gives general education teachers a resource to help when teaching students with special needs.  They give 7 questions that help general education teachers.
 
This question discusses how to arrange the classroom to ensure that all students can learn.  Their is also a resource that they give to help teachers better understand this. http://www.powerof2.org/cgiwrap/powerof2/feature/index.php
This article discusses the importance of including students with special needs this way they feel acceptance in the class room.
The second question I would like to discuss is:
 
 
This question is very important in my opinion. As a teacher I need to make sure that I am doing all that I can to help the students.  RTI is an important part of that.
 
 
They give this additional resource to answer this question about the role of RTI and in this article they give a detail explanation of RTI and Early Intervention. A wonderful source for all teachers.
 
 
In order to make sure that my students receive the best education collaboration is a must. 
 
 
This is so important because teaching a child with disabilities can seem daunting.  It really helps when you can have help from other teachers.  I really liked this resource they give.
This website gives great information about all different kinds of disabilities.  For any teacher knowing about this website is a must!!!
All together I found the Serge website a helpful tool as a general education teacher.  I will use this website when I teach.
Posted October 29, 2012 At 4:52 p.m.
 

ELL RESOURCES

ELL or English Language Learners are students who are learning English as a second language.  When you go on the Internet their are thousands of websites set up to assist teachers, parents, and students.  Here are 7 websites to help.
 

 
From the National Council of Teachers of English
 
This site gives you the background of ELL policy.  It also gives guidelines of how to teach students who are ELLs.  This site is a great resource because it gives you background information for all grade levels and gives great ideas when you teach.  This is a great resource as a teacher.
 
 
From the National Education Association:
This website gives you strategies for teaching students who are ELL.  The NEA also gives you another resource when closing the achievement gap between ELL's and non- ELL students.  This is a great resource for teachers because it gives standards that several teachers use and they give you an opportunity to contact the English Language Learner program.
 
From the Utah Education Network
This website has guidelines, lesson plans, resources for teachers, and resources for the students.  This website was created for Utah teachers, students and parents.  It is great that they give so much information for students and parents, it is not just for teachers.  This will be of great use when I become a teacher and I will refer to this website for parents as well.
 
This article is a great resource because it give you information on myths that surround students who are ELL's.   The authors also list conclusion based on their studies.  I like this website because they discuss myths that people believe and the reasoning why these myths are wrong.  I love this article and will use this to debunk my own biases when teaching students who are ELLs.
 
From the Utah state office of Education this website give teachers information on Title III.  This website also gives resources for teaching Ells and gives you an overview of Assessments when you are working the students who are ELLs.  This is a website I will refer to as a teacher because it give important information from the state of Utah that I will need to adhere to when I begin teaching.
 
This website give teachers information on how they can help reduce the achievement gap in the pre-k to third grade classroom when you teach students who are ELLs.  I love this article because it focuses on the lower grades which I hope to teach.  This is a wonderful resource for me.
 
This article give guidelines on response to intervention protocols when working with students who are ELLs. This is a great website for teachers to help understand what needs to be done to help our students, and to make sure they are receiving the best education.
 
These are just seven websites their are thousands more and each give valuable information for teachers and parents.
Posted November 5, 2012 at 5:04 pm


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