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Learning Activities: Presenting IDEA

  • This is an activity developed by Tamarah Ashton (MERLOT).
  • According to the author, ¡§The main piece of special education legislation, IDEA, is often cumbersome to discuss with parents. This assignment explores other avenues of providing this information to parents.¡¨

[Remarks: The learning objective and tasks are extracted from the original text, but the website of IDEA Practices was replaced with Council for Exceptional Children]

  • Learning objective: To learn the basic concepts of IDEA that need to be conveyed to parents.
  • Tasks:
    • Visit the IDEA Practices website (Council for Exceptional Children)
    • Imagine that you are sitting at an IEP meeting as the special education teacher and you are attempting to cover the basic elements of IDEA with parents who are new to you.
    • What specific areas might you tell them to investigate at this site?

 

Managing Diversity

  • This activity can be used independently or integrated with other activity, for example, conceptual learning [Please refer to relevant file]
  • Individual work or group work
  • Resources needed
    • Online source as the one in previous slide
    • Printouts
    • Others to be determined
  • Audience:
    • To be determined by the pre-service teachers
    • To be determined by both the instructor or the pre-service teachers
  • Situations
    • To choose from the list used in Professional Development

 


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