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2006

Special needs

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Building Successful Multicultural Special Education Programs Through Innovative Leadership, Festus E. Obiakor, Floyd D. Beachum, Darrell Williams, Carlos R. Mccray Sep 2006

Building Successful Multicultural Special Education Programs Through Innovative Leadership, Festus E. Obiakor, Floyd D. Beachum, Darrell Williams, Carlos R. Mccray

Educational Considerations

Across America’s schools, administrators are faced with various educational challenges.

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The Role Of Administrators In Paraprofessional Supervision To Support Ethnic Minority Students With Special Needs, Betty Y. Ashbaker, Jill Morgan Sep 2006

The Role Of Administrators In Paraprofessional Supervision To Support Ethnic Minority Students With Special Needs, Betty Y. Ashbaker, Jill Morgan

Educational Considerations

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 provided a clear mandate to school administrators to provide additional training for professional and paraprofessional staff.

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Flowers For Algernon Feb 2006

Flowers For Algernon

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2006 performance of Flowers for Algernon by David Rogers.

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Perceptions Of The Value Of Problem-Based Learning Among Students With Special Needs And Their Teachers, Brian Robert Belland, P. A. Ertmer, K. D. Simons Jan 2006

Perceptions Of The Value Of Problem-Based Learning Among Students With Special Needs And Their Teachers, Brian Robert Belland, P. A. Ertmer, K. D. Simons

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

While problem-based learning (PBL) has been found to be effective with gifted and average students (Hmelo-Silver, 2004), little is known about its impact on students with special needs. This study examines the perceptions of middle-school students with mild, moderate, and severe disabilities and of their teachers regarding the value of participating in a PBL unit. The unit focused on the physical accessibility of a low-SES, rural community where the students’ school was located.We used the constant comparative method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) to analyze interview data, and used observation data and artifacts to triangulate interview comments. Among the noteworthy findings …

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