Promoting teacher quality and retention in special education.

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......keeping good special educators has been...beginning special educators, with approximately...unqualified special educators is especially...associated with special educators' decisions...responsive induction programs, (b) deliberate...qualified ...

Special Educators in a Regional Induction Program

Rural Special Education Quarterly;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......4-year period, eleven first-year special educators participated with 93 other first...beginner. We compared the experiences of special educators to other participants in Project...special education. We found that special educators differed from other participants...

The working conditions and induction support of early career special...

Exceptional Children;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......attention to the working conditions and the induction of early career special educators is needed if we are to build a committed...Recent reports have documented increasing special education teacher shortages and high attrition...high proportion of uncertified beginning special ...

Are special educators' career paths special? Reports from a 13-year...

Exceptional Children;  December 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......and retaining sufficient numbers of special educators. In 1991, the Office of Special Education...schools still needed 28,000 additional special educators (10% of the U.S. special education...testified that unless we train more special educators, there will be a major deterioration...

Why special-ed instructors are so hard to find. (What They're...

Curriculum Review;  February 1, 2002 ;     151 words ......inclusion is the reluctance of competent special educators to work as special educators, particularly when they can secure general...While there are numerous openings for special educators, few want these jobs because of the...

Who is Teaching Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders?: A...

Behavioral Disorders;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......compares these teachers with 3,687 other special educators. Teachers of students with EBD were...of teaching experience than other special educators. A smaller percentage of teachers...alternative programs than the other special educators. Only a small percentage of respondents...

Mentoring for inclusion: A model class for special and general educators

The Teacher Educator;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......class for instructing general and special educators in best practices of inclusive education...disabilities. The ability of regular and special educators to work together and solve problems...participation. That is, general and special educators are expected to participate with...

Who's teaching students with special needs?

Teaching Exceptional Children;  July 1, 2003 ;     560 words ......surprising to find that contemporary special educators are quite different from their predecessors...out settings, and this calls for special educators to collaborate much more closely...for licensure, and this requires special educators to be more broadly prepared across...

Voices from the field: Reflections from beginning special educators

Teaching Exceptional Children;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......are just a few reflections from special educators in their first or second year of...explores common issues facing beginning special educators and discusses ways to support the...teaching and the need to retain special educators (Ax, Conderman, & Stephens...we decided to conduct ...

Bridges to Success: A Developmental Induction Model for Rural Early Career...

Rural Special Education Quarterly;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......describes a developmental induction model designed specifically...needs of beginning special educators in rural settings...were true beginning special educators. Differential outcomes...designing effective induction programs in rural areas are...Historically, 40% of ...

Collaboration in the Age of Accountability

Teaching Exceptional Children;  May 1, 2004 ;     610 words ...In many schools, special educators are the ultimate collaborators...exactly what collaborating special educators do. Is collaboration a fundamental...of the many ways in which special educators report successful collaborative...

CEC's standards for professional practice in advocacy: members' attitudes...

Exceptional Children;  May 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......Professional Practice pertain to advocacy by special educators. 1.5.1 Special education professionals...define advocacy behavior expected of special educators, professionals who adhere to the...dilemmas. These can arise because special educators lack the independence typically ...

The Case for Cases in Preparing Special Educators for Rural Schools

Rural Special Education Quarterly;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......settings present those who prepare special educators with particular issues. The case...can be used in the preparation of special educators for rural schools. Teachers in the...certified (Beeson & Strange, 2000). Special educators in rural places, like their colleagues...

Low Incidence Disabilities and Personnel Preparation for Rural Areas:...

Rural Special Education Quarterly;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......assess the state of shortages of special educators in the areas of vision impairments...have not been enough fully certified special educators to fill the positions in the nation...Clearinghouse, 2002) Nationally, about 12% of special educators are not fully certified for their...

Supporting professionals-at-risk: evaluating interventions to reduce...

Exceptional Children;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......indicator is the high number of special educators who are emergency certified. Up to 30% of special educators, compared to 10% of general educators...supply and growing demand for special educators both contributes to and is affected...