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Cease-Cook, Jennifer; Fowler, Catherine; Test, David W. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2015
Nationally, the recent focus has been on adopting state-developed standards in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics that build toward college and career readiness. Of the states that have elected to adopt the Common Core State Standards (CCSS; National Governors Association, Council of Chief State School Officers, 2012), states either (a)…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, High School Students, Disabilities
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Mazzotti, Valerie L.; Rowe, Dawn A.; Kelley, Kelly R.; Test, David W.; Fowler, Catherine H.; Kohler, Paula D.; Kortering, Larry J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2009
Individualized education programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities ages 16 and older must include a transition component. It is important for educators to understand the role transition assessment plays in developing a thorough transition component that includes measurable postsecondary goals, annual IEP goals, transition services, and a…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Individualized Programs, Disabilities, Individualized Instruction
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Konrad, Moira; Walker, Allison R.; Fowler, Catherine H.; Test, David W.; Wood, Wendy M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
Researchers and practitioners have emphasized the importance of teaching self-determination skills to students with disabilities for more than a decade. One major barrier to teaching self-determination in recent years has been teachers' not knowing how to focus on reading, writing, and mathematics and simultaneously teach self-determination…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Academic Education, Disabilities, Standards
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Uphold, Nicole M.; Walker, Allison R.; Test, David W. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2007
Research continues to document the lack of widespread classroom implementation of self-determination instruction. One reason given for why self-determination skills are not being taught is the lack of readily available and affordable instructional resources. The IEP process is one vehicle that all teachers can use to teach self-determination.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs, Student Participation, Self Determination
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Test, David W.; Browder, Diane M.; Karvonen, Meagan; Wood, Wendy; Algozzine, Bob – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2002
This article describes a process that teachers can use to translate information in research studies into practical lesson plans. Examples are drawn from the self-determination literature to illustrate how to identify the objective of the study, setting and materials, content taught, teaching procedure, and method of evaluation. (Contains…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Lesson Plans
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Stem, Betty; Test, David W. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1989
Presented are procedures for identifying important first aid skills, developing skill analyses, and teaching the skills. The procedures were successfully used to teach moderately mentally handicapped students to communicate an emergency, administer first aid for minor injuries, apply plastic bandages to minor injuries, and administer first aid for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, First Aid, Injuries, Moderate Mental Retardation
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Test, David W.; Karvonen, Meagan; Wood, Wendy M.; Browder, Diane; Algozzine, Bob – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2000
This article describes a project to help educators improve the self-determination of students with disabilities. The project identified critical curricular components and developed a checklist to evaluate the different curricula designed to promote self-determination skills. Five curricula that have published research documenting their…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wood, Wendy M.; Karvonen, Meagan; Test, David W.; Browder, Diane; Algozzine, Bob – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2004
This article explores ways to include self-determination and self-advocacy goals and objectives in individualized education programs (IEPs). It identifies self-determination goals and offers guidelines on selection and writing of self-determination goals. Insets and tables include a review of the literature, definitions of self-determination…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs, Personal Autonomy