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Teacher Education and the Neglected Diversity: Preparing Educators to Teach Students with Disabilities:
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The formation professionnelle des enseignants ne peut plus negliger le fait que tous les enfants n'apprennent pas de la meme maniere.Abstract:
La formation professionnelle des enseignants ne peut plus negliger le fait que tous les enfants n'apprennent pas de la meme maniere. Les programmes de formation doivent preparer les enseignants a faire face aux besoins specifiques de tous ses eleves et pas seulement a ceux qui sont capables de suivreread more
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Managing student behavior: how ready are teachers to meet the challenge?
TL;DR: The authors found that secondary educators were significantly less able, willing, and ready to manage challenging student behaviors than their colleagues at lower grade levels and that teachers often reported specific behaviors that would negatively impact their willingness to include such a student in class.
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Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Including Students with Disabilities
TL;DR: The authors compared the perceptions of future educators on two dichotomous scales (i.e., hostility/receptivity and anxiety/calmness) regarding serving students with disabiliti...
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Addressing diversity in US teacher preparation programs: A survey of elementary and secondary programs’ priorities and challenges from across the United States of America
TL;DR: The authors found that race/ethnicity was the most emphasized diversity topic followed by special needs, language diversity, economic diversity, social class, gender, and sexual orientation in elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs.
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Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Classrooms Learning from a Collaborative Inquiry Group
Britt Hamre,Celia Oyler +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the topics of concern and questions expressed by six general education student teachers in a collaborative dialogue group focused on inclusive classrooms and extracted the themes of inexperience, equity, levels, normalcy, labels, and belonging as presented by these teachers in their individual inquiries into inclusive education.
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Learning about Co-teaching: A Collaborative Student Teaching Experience for Preservice Teachers:
TL;DR: This paper explored the experiences of two pairs of preservice teachers who co-taught as they were placed with teams of collaborating cooperating teachers for a semester-long student teaching experience.
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A Rationale for the Merger of Special and Regular Education
TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to provide a rationale for the merger of special and regular education into one unified system structured to meet the unique needs of all students.
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Arguable Assumptions Underlying the Regular Education Initiative
TL;DR: It is argued that students are not overidentified for special education, and the gap between regular and special education is not widening, and teachers are always faced with the dilemma of maximizing mean performance versus minimizing group variance.
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Special Education in the Restructured School
TL;DR: Two significant, overriding trends in reform have emerged in special education at all levels from policy to program implementation during the past decade: the movement to integrate students with severe disabilities and those with low-incidence disabilities into general education schools and classrooms for their educational programs; and the effort to retain students with mild and moderate disabilities in the general classroom as an alternative to pull-out programs.
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The Language-Minority Student and Special Education: Issues, Trends, and Paradoxes
Russell Gersten,John R. Woodward +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines key issues and tensions in the areas of referral and special education instruction for these students and discusses the collaborations needed in the fields of learning disabilities, bilingual education, and Special Education.
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The Regular Education Initiative Debate: Its Promises and Problems:
TL;DR: The authors examines the current parameters of this discourse, identifies specific problems and issues related to this debate, and suggests strategies for overcoming perceived obstacles and improving the overall dialogue, particularly focusing on key groups, for example, local educators and students themselves, who have been largely excluded from the regular education initiative debate.