What is the CEC?
The council for Exceptional Children
What is OSEP?
Office of Special Education Programs
What is the mission of OSEP?
To
... [Show More] lead the nation's efforts to improve outcomes for children with disabilities, birth through 21, and their families, ensuring access to fair, equitable, and high-quality education and services.
What is the mission of the CEC?
To define what a new teacher must know and be able to do to begin teaching.
What is stage 1 of CEC?
Learner Development and Individual Learning Differences: Beginning special education professionals understand how exceptionalities may interact with development and learning and use this knowledge to provide meaningful and challenging learning experiences for individuals with exceptionalities.
What is stage two of cec?
Learning Environments: Beginning special education professionals create safe, inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments so that individuals with exceptionalities become active and effective learners and develop emotional well being, positive social interactions, and self-determination.
What is stage three of cec?
Curricular Content Knowledge: Beginning special education professionals use knowledge of general and specialized curricula to individualize learning for individuals with exceptionalities.
What is stage four of cec?
Assessment: Beginning special education professionals use multiple methods of assessment and data sources in making educational decisions.
What is stage five of cec?
Instructional Planning and Strategies: Beginning special education professionals select, adapt, and use a repertoire of evidence-based instructional strategies to advance learning of individuals with exceptionalities.
What is stage six of cec?
Professional Learning and Ethical Practice: Beginning special education professionals use foundational knowledge of the field and their professional ethical principles and practice standards to inform special education practice, to engage in lifelong learning, and to advance the profession.
How should professional development be designed and implemented?
Teachers should take ownership of their own professional development.
Portfolio Assessment
Writing samples may be collected over time to show the development of writing skills.
performance assessment
Knowledge or skills are evaluated by having students perform an experiment, demonstrate a skill, or develop a product to show their understanding.
Curriculum-Based Assessment
Students' performance is compared to that of classroom or school peers, not to a national sample, as is the case for most norm-referenced tests.
Differentiated Instruction
The what and how of instruction is tailored to the student learning needs and preferences.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Learning activities provide multiple means of representation or modes of presentation (e.g., auditory, visual, varying levels of complexity, and multiple means of action and expression).
What are the four ethical principles of National Association of School Psychologists?
1. Respect for the dignity of persons
2. Professional competence and responsibility (responsible caring and beneficence)
3. Honesty and integrity in professional relationships [Show Less]