Using Elements of a Screenplay to Promote Visualization and Increase Reading Comprehension in Secondary Students with High Incidence Disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Lori Ann C. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

Creating Content Acquisition Podcasts (CAPs) for Vocabulary

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret P. Weiss ◽  
Anya S. Evmenova ◽  
Michael J. Kennedy ◽  
Jodi M. Duke
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
General Education ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Content Acquisition ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Instructional Design Principles ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

Mastering content vocabulary is critical to the success of students with high-incidence disabilities in the general education curriculum. General education classrooms often do not offer the opportunities necessary for these students to master important vocabulary. Teachers often look to technology to help. Several studies have indicated that content acquisition podcasts (CAPs) may have an impact on the vocabulary learning of secondary students with high-incidence disabilities. In this study, 37 in-service teachers enrolled in a master’s program in special education were taught to create CAPs for vocabulary terms in a course focused on methods for secondary-level instruction. Teacher-created podcasts were assessed on the presence of Mayer’s instructional design principles as well as evidence-based practices for vocabulary instruction. Although teachers were able to include many instructional design principles related to technology in their CAPs, their use of instructional principles and evidence-based practices was inconsistent. Implications are discussed.

A Technology-Based Self-Monitoring Intervention for Secondary Students with High-Incidence Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 016264342110044
Author(s):  
Skip Kumm ◽  
Elizabeth Talbott ◽  
Kristine Jolivette
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Appropriate Behavior ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities ◽  
Withdrawal Design

Secondary students with high incidence disabilities who also display disruptive behaviors struggle to be successful in general education settings. As a result, general education teachers are looking for ways to utilize technology to provide them with opportunities to implement evidence-based interventions in their classrooms. In this study, teachers used MoBeGo, an iPad application, in a single-case withdrawal design (ABAB), to implement self-monitoring in high school general education classrooms with four students who received special education services for a high incidence disability. The results of this study indicate that teachers could implement MoBeGo with fidelity to improve students’ academic engagement and appropriate behavior. Additionally, both the teachers and students rated MoBeGo as a socially valid intervention. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Planning Computer Science Instruction for Students With High-Incidence Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 105345122110249
Author(s):  
Amy Hutchison ◽  
Anya S. Evmenova
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Universal Design For Learning ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Science Content ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Integration Planning ◽  
Content Area Instruction ◽  
Model Computer ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

States increasingly are adopting computer science standards to help students develop coding and computational thinking skills. In an effort to support teachers in introducing computer science content to their students with high-incidence disabilities, a new model, computer science integration planning plus universal design for learning (CSIP+) offers ways to integrate computational thinking and coding into content area instruction. This column presents an example of how a teacher might implement the CSIP+ model when designing instruction accessible to all learners. Guiding questions to support teachers at each phase of the planning cycle are provided.

Increasing Secondary Students’ Comprehension Through Explicit Attention to Narrative Text Structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 004005992110255
Author(s):  
Whitney Sommers Butler ◽  
Casey Hord ◽  
Susan Watts-Taffe
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
School Students

In spite of the prevailing assumption that formal reading instruction is no longer needed once adolescents reach high school, students at the secondary level still benefit from explicit reading instruction to continue developing advanced literacy skills enabling them to access complex narrative texts. This article argues for the importance of teachers to scrutinize the texts they plan to teach to determine what instruction and supports are needed to promote reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities. Specifically, this article examines how nonlinear text structures can challenge adolescent reading comprehension and illustrates explicit text structure instruction with three exemplar texts which use unconventional narrative patterns. The article emphasizes the importance of considering the qualitative features of texts to inform instruction to support reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities.

Sufficiency of Teachers’ Access to Resources and Supports for Students With Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 088840642110462
Author(s):  
Samantha A. Gesel ◽  
Lindsay Foreman-Murray ◽  
Allison F. Gilmour
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
General Educators ◽  
Release Time ◽  
Service Delivery Model ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities ◽  
And Training

Students with disabilities are served by both special and general educators, yet teachers often feel unprepared to meet the needs of these students in their classrooms. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we examined the sufficiency of teachers’ access to supports available for meeting the needs of students with high-incidence disabilities, their access to development opportunities, and the sources teachers used to access interventions. We explored differences in teachers’ experiences by grade band, service delivery model, and teacher preparation model. We found teachers of students with disabilities rated the sufficiency of access to supports between somewhat insufficient and somewhat sufficient, with the lowest ratings for planning/release time and training and information. Teachers reported greater rates of access to collaboration than professional development. Colleagues were sources for resources related to academic interventions and administrators were sources for nonacademic intervention resources. There were few significant differences in these results by teacher characteristics.

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