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| Effective Schools Status: Available for the spring quarter |
It focuses on the entire school population. It will highlight partnerships between general education and special education faculty with the results of creating a "collective responsibility" and shared high expectations for all students. |
| Addressing the revolving door: How to retain your special education teachers
Status: Online |
It highlights the key elements that are instrumental for school administrators in supporting special educators and increasing teacher retention. |
| Beginning Teacher Support
Status: Online |
This module emphasizes the importance of administrative support for beginning special education teachers. It will demonstrate how teacher support can increase the effectiveness of the teacher in the classroom. |
| Access to General Education Curriculum
Status: Available for the spring quarter |
This module will describe the conditions that promote students with disabilities learning the important knowledge and skills needed to become successful adults. |
| Understanding High Stakes Accountability and Testing for Students with Disabilities
Status: Available for the spring quarter |
It will present information on legal requirements and accommodations for testing students with disabilities in addition to consideration for interpreting performance data for this population. |
| What Do You See?: Perceptions of Disability
Online |
This module will encourage students to explore their own attitudes and beliefs about people with disabilities. It will highlight the abilities of students with disabilities. |
Case Studies
Case Study Units provide faculty with realistic teaching applications for students to use, and they are designed to strengthen a student's understanding of the topic, as well as enhance their problem-solving skills while exploring new content. The case study units are divided into three levels to allow students to progress from information gathering, to
analyzing the information, and eventually to synthesizing the information. Each case study unit provide STAR sheets which contain a description of the strategy, an explanation of how it is implemented, what research says about the strategy, information resources and references, and descriptions of any research-based programs available.
| Developing and Supporting Inclusive Settings
Status: Available for fall quarter |
This case study unit will provide guidelines and strategies for administrators who are developing and supporting effective inclusive settings that adequately serve the needs of students with disabilities. |
| Beginning Teacher Support and Retention
Status: Available for winter quarter |
This unit will highlight the importance of teacher support in retaining beginning teachers who work with children with disabilities. |
Web Resource Directory
The IRIS Web Resource Directory is a searchable database of online resources. The Directory allows faculty members and college students to search by category to find information about websites on the special education or disability topic of their interest.
Activities
Supplementary activities are designed for faculty to use in-class as discussion topics, small group activities, or to assign as independent work. They offer a diverse array of assignments that vary in length of time to complete, assignment type, and complexity of the activity.
Information Briefs
Information Briefs have been carefully selected from existing materials available from well-respected organizations. These organizations have granted the IRIS Center permission to offer these resources at the IRIS website
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