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Amber B. Ray; Erin FitzPatrick – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Students with disabilities need high-quality instruction to effectively wield writing as a tool to powerfully shape both academic and economic outcomes. Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) is a powerful intervention demonstrated to improve student growth and writing performance for students with learning disabilities, emotional and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Efficacy, Writing Skills, Students with Disabilities
Christina Novelli; Kristin L. Sayeski – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Improving students' spelling proficiency can increase their reading performance. Unfortunately, many students with specific learning disabilities in reading struggle with spelling. These students are often served in general education settings and provided with limited support for spelling. Recently, however, teachers have begun to incorporate…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Skills, Visual Aids
Anna Laura McAfee; Aftynne E. Cheek; Maddy Hensch; Lexi Stone – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Self-determination consists of essential skills for students with disabilities because it gives individuals the power to make decisions based on their own needs and desires. Self-determination includes areas such as choice-making, goal setting, and self-directed learning. Music therapy is a service that can be used to enhance self-determination…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Self Determination, Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
Emma K. Watson; Leslie Ann Bross; Jonathan M. Huffman – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
The purpose of this article is to present a step-by-step process for using self-monitoring to support college students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to achieve a variety of goals. Self-monitoring can be used with no technology (e.g., pencil and paper, tangible object placement) or technology-based applications (e.g., interval timers, mobile…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Progress Monitoring
Olivia R. Hester; Kristine Jolivette; Nicole C. Swoszowski – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Check-in/check-out (CICO) is a widely used strategy for students with and without disabilities that is used in schools, sometimes as a tiered strategy within a multi-tiered system of support. Several adaptations to CICO have emerged across applications including extension to other educational settings (e.g., residential treatment facilities) and…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Vocational Education
Jeremy W. Ford; Amanda M. Kern; Julia P. Gorman; Conor D. Mooney – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Individualizing instruction is a time-consuming aspect of classroom practice. Testing multiple interventions, and monitoring each to see which is most effective for a student can be prohibitively time consuming. However, Brief Experimental Analysis (BEA) is an assessment procedure that can be used to quickly identify an intervention that is likely…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Individualized Instruction, Intervention
Matthew F. Flanagan; Jennifer L. Bumble – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Collaboration is an essential practice linked to improved postschool outcomes of youth with disabilities and many school systems depend on special educators to broker this collaboration and engage meaningful partners throughout the transition planning process. Community asset mapping is a strategy for locating and leveraging resources and is…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Students with Disabilities, School Community Relationship, Individualized Transition Plans
S. Blair Payne; Elizabeth Swanson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Executive functions, which begin developing in early childhood, are necessary for the tasks of daily life, such as decision making and planning. Despite their early development, often without teaching, many teens with disabilities need explicit instruction to acquire and apply executive functions each day. Gaps in executive functions directly…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adolescents, Disabilities, Transitional Programs
Hunter A. Matusevich; Karrie A. Shogren; Sheida K. Raley; Dale W. Matusevich – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
All students go through a variety of transitions throughout their life (i.e., middle school to high school, high school to the workforce). However, students with disabilities tend to experience disparities compared to their peers without disabilities in regard to in-school and postschool outcomes. One way to enhance outcomes for students with…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities, Outcomes of Education, Self Determination
Leslie Ann Bross; Stephanie L. Craig – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework can be applied to a variety of instructional contexts and activities, and individualized education program (IEP) meetings are one such context. The primary principle of the framework is to provide teachers with guidelines for designing and implementing instruction that can be adapted to meet the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Individualized Education Programs, Educational Principles, Meetings
Leena Jo Landmark; Vickie J. Mitchell; Christina M. Gushanas; Townsley Tayebianpour – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Adult student transition programs (also known as 18+ programs, 18-21 programs, adult transition programs, and community transition programs) are educational programs that provide instruction in age-appropriate community environments to adult students who have met the state credit and assessment guidelines for graduation but who still require…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Transitional Programs, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Lynn S. Burdick; Catherine Corr – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Nine-year old Eliza is a student at Meadows Elementary School where she receives special education services for her diagnosis of Emotional Disturbance. Her teachers are working together to try to bring Eliza back into the classroom after weeks of time spent in the office with no contact with her peers. Mr. Jimenez and Ms. Landon are collaborating…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, Special Education
Alicia F. Saunders; Shawnee Wakeman; Brett Cerrato; Holly Johnson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Behavior skills training (BST) with ongoing coaching is an effective form of professional development that creates sustained educator practice change and improves student outcomes. We provide a model for how BST can be used to improve the implementation of evidence-based practices with both teachers and paraprofessionals, the latter of whom often…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Professional Development
Stephen D. Kroeger; Kathryn Doyle; Christina Carnahan; Andrew G. Benson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Microteaching is a way of doing professional development for teachers wanting to incorporate new evidence-based and high-leverage practices into their instructional toolboxes. Given how much work is required in teaching and the limited time professionals have available, microteaching is an accessible process that supports instructional improvement…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Improvement
Kristabel Stark; Jessica Koslouski – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Considering the salience of emotions in their work, special educators should think of them as an important source of data to inform and improve their practice. Special educators' emotions and emotional labor are a rich and accessible form of data that can directly inform their delivery of high-quality instruction. Although special educators…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Intelligence