Recently added articles from Teaching Exceptional Children:

English Language Learners and Response to Intervention: Referral Considerations

May 01, 2008; Rinaldi, Claudia; Samson, Jennifer ... When a school is implementing a response to intervention model [RTI), what are the special considerations for the assessment of and referral for special education services for English language learners (ELLs) with academic difficulties? An RTI model and evidencebased instruction can inform the ...

The Active Classroom: Supporting Students With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Through Exercise

May 01, 2008; Mulrine, Christopher F; Prater, Mary Anne; Jenkins, Amelia ... Ms. Kau's students are full of life and energy but many have trouble staying focused and are easily distracted. Several are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). She read an article suggesting that regular movement could assist students with concentration as well as ...

Student and Peer Evaluation: Feedback for All Learners

May 01, 2008; Carr, Sonya C ... Ms. Cole is a new teacher recently assigned to an elementary inclusion class. She is excited about this opportunity and is eager to apply the best practices learned during her teacher preparation program. Her school receives recognition for its innovative programs and active parental ...

Physical Education for Students With Autism: Teaching Tips and Strategies

May 01, 2008; Menear, Kristi Sayers; Smith, Shannon ... Riley is a 7-year-old student with autism who attends his neighborhood public school. He goes to physical education with the other 19 students in his inclusive classroom, his paraprofessional, and 3 other second-grade classes with 20 students in each class. When Riley is in physical education, ...

How Are Your Person First Skills? A Self-Assessment

May 01, 2008; Russell, Carol L ... You may say that you have heard it all before, and you know everything about the person first philosophy. Yet have you really assessed yourself on how you use it? There is daily evidence on the news and in newspapers, magazines, movies, textbooks, classrooms, and medical, educational, and social ...

Tourette Syndrome: A Collaborative Approach Focused on Empowering Students, Families, and Teachers

May 01, 2008; Christner, Beth; Dieker, Lisa A ... On the Friday prior to the first day of school I prepared to meet my new third grade students and their families at our annual open house. As I glanced down the list of student names for the upcoming year, one thing that stood out to me was that over half the students in my general education ...

Culturally Responsive Practices in Schools: A Checklist to Address Disproportionality in Special Education

May 01, 2008; Fiedler, Craig R; Chiang, Bert; Van Haren, Barbara; Jorgensen, Jack; Halberg, Sara; Boreson, Lynn ... The overrepresentation of students with racial, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity (RCELD) in special education has been well documented for over 30 years (Artiles, Harry, Reschly, & Chinn, 2002; Connor & Boskin, 2001; Coutinho & Oswald, 2000; Harry & Klinger, 2006; ...

Wendy or Tinkerbell? How the Underrepresentation of Girls Impacts Gender Roles in Preschool Special Education

May 01, 2008; Manwaring, Joanne S ... In a public elementary school in the southeastern United States, a self-contained class of prekindergarten children with disabilities is playing with PlayDoh. As the children are molding and shaping the modeling compound, the only girl is helping the boys press shapes into their Play-Doh. She ...

A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention With English Language Learners

May 01, 2008; Brown, Julie Esparza; Doolittle, Jennifer ... The Council for Exceptional Children is pleased to partner with the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCREST) to periodically include in TEACHING Exceptional Children topical briefs to support your efforts in addressing the learning needs of exceptional students ...

What Does the Law Say?

May 01, 2008; Zirkel, Perry A ... 1. The Christner and Dicker article concerns students with Tourette syndrome (TS). Did the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA) or its 2006 regulations provide any specific recognition for students with TS? The latest legislative amendments did not ...