What Does Good Special Education Teaching Look Like?
July 25, 2018
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week
A year ago, I wrote about a project designed to show what special education teachers should know and be able to do. The Council for Exceptional Children and the federally-supported Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform, also known as CEEDAR, came up with 22 “high-leverage practices” spread across four domains that should be mastered by newly-minted special education teachers.
Now, the same organizations have created videos showing some of those practices in action.
The four videos, each about 20 minutes long, offer examples of a handful of these practices: “provide constructive and positive feedback,” “systematically design instruction towards learning goals,” “use explicit instruction,” and “use strategies to promote active student engagement.”