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Teaching Exceptional Children
Teaching Exceptional Children is a journal that explores practical methods for teaching students who have exceptionalities and those who are gifted and talented. Since it was founded in 1956, it is published six times a year. The journal is published by the Council for Exceptional Children.Subjects for Teaching Exceptional Children include education. The editors are Alec Peck and Stan Scarpati.
Articles from Vol. 32, No. 5, May/June
An "Exceptional" New NBPTS Certificate for Special Educators
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The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has established five broad paths for teachers of students with disabilities. Teachers may select the "best fit" within these paths to undertake NBPTS' voluntary assessment as Exceptional...
CEC Helps Launch National Center on Curriculum Access
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Would carefully crafted changes in teaching and learning help students with disabilities become fuller participants in the general education curriculum? Can integrating the concept of universal design for learning improve their achievement in mainstream...
Considering Special Education Mediation
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 require that mediation be made available whenever a due process hearing has been requested. (300.506). Administrators, teachers and other service providers can use mediation to...
Follow That Bear!
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Gross motor development is the foundation for mobility skills in young visually impaired children. Without vision as a motivator, many visually impaired children often tag behind in areas of gross motor and sensorimotor development. When first observed,...
Forming and Benefiting from Educator Study Groups
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* On-site experts * Change process * Collegiality * Ownership * Small groups * Synergy * Leadership * Voice * Collaboration * Improvement * Dialogue Teachers, librarians, principals, and other educators are increasingly enjoying the benefits of small-group...
Learning to Teach Early Literacy Skills-Collaboratively
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When Marynell Schlegel, the principal at Walker Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona, reflected 1 year after her teachers' participation in the Reading Instructional Methods of Efficacy (RIME) Project, she noted, "This has been a wonderful partnership...
Listening to Student Voices about Postsecondary Education
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Every year an increasing number of students with disabilities enter postsecondary education. Many of these students fail to successfully compete academically or simply leave before they complete their planned programs of study (Fairweather & Shaver,...
Self-Recording Plus Encouragement Equals Improved Behavior
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George, a 6-year-old African-American male, is in a first-grade advanced reading group. Because of his hyperactivity, however, his reading teacher wanted to remove him from this group. He had been diagnosed as emotionally disturbed/behavior disordered...
Shields Connects Her Students to the World
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State Farm Good Neighbor Award - Martha Shields From the city streets of downtown Bangkok, Thailand, to the bountiful rivers of western Ohio, Special Educator Martha Shields has been reaching students for nearly 30 years with her innovative approach...
Shortages of Personnel in the Low Incidence Area of Blindness: Working and Planning Together
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Concerned about the national shortage of personnel serving children with blindness and low vision, in 1997 the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education funded The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) to engage in a collaborative...
Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators
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Designing a Framework for Professional Development of Preservice and Practicing Teachers Foundations of Learning and Development: Understands how children learn and develop; has in-depth knowledge about unique needs of learners with disabilities and...
Teachers as Friendship Facilitators
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Respeto and Personalismo Danny has no relationships outside his family." "Jessie has no friends at school .... She has only been there one and a half years." "My dream is that the phone will ring, and someone will invite her to play." These quotes are...
Using Collaboration and the Web to Implement the CEC Standards
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A college student who has a brother with mental retardation has always thought about becoming a teacher of students with special needs. During a meeting the student had scheduled with the chairperson of the special education department, the question...
Using Memory-Enhancing Strategies to Learn Multiplication Facts
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Casey and James are fifth-grade special education students receiving math instruction in a special education classroom. They have been working on mastery of basic multiplication facts for 3 years with limited success. They are mainstreamed into general...
We Are Social Beings Learning How to Learn Cooperatively
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Let's face it: Most of us, whether or not we have a disability, are social creatures. Students with learning disabilities, who also may have difficulties with social skills, can benefit from specific social skills training that helps them learn how to...
