A Systematic Analysis of Transition Coursework Required for Special Education Licensure

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendra L. Williams-Diehm ◽  
Dawn A. Rowe ◽  
Margaret C. Johnson ◽  
Jean Francois Guilmeus

The field of secondary special education and transition has long advocated for quality training at the preservice level. However, transition-focused coursework is not required for all special education licensure programs. Licensure programs requiring this coursework do not cover all transition-related knowledge and skills needed for teachers to implement effective planning and instruction. This article details results from an analysis of syllabi of transition coursework required for licensure sampled from institutions of higher education (i.e., named in 2015 U.S. News & World Report, 2014 National Council on Teacher Quality report). Results found 35% of universities sampled required a transition course for initial special education licensure. Courses identified covered roughly 85% of the subdomains identified in the Taxonomy for Transition Programming 2.0.

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
Nancy Mamlin ◽  
Jennifer A. Diliberto

The current investigation surveyed 83 preservice teacher education candidates enrolled in institutions of higher education (IHEs) to pursue licensure in special education. The purpose of the investigation was to determine why these candidates were pursuing a career as a special education teacher, when they decided, and where they saw themselves teaching in the near future. The survey yielded implications for potential K-12 and IHE initiatives to promote careers in the field of special education to individuals.


Author(s):  
Larisa Shokorova ◽  

The paper outlines the author’s view on problems in teaching of application artists in the modern Russian higher education caused by today’s social, cultural and economic conditions and challenges. Reasons for unpreparedness of graduates of institutions of higher education to independent creative labor are called. A circle of knowledge and skills that are fundamental for a professional application artist-to-be are named in the article. It is shown that widened knowledge of visual skillfulness, technical aesthetics, methods and technologies of materials handling as well as developed artistic thinking and imagination help to create new images of the reality. Also, the paper reveals ways of building students’ professionally significant skills that are consists in wake-up task-oriented cognitive activities through life drawing, copying examples of folk art.


Author(s):  
Deanne J. Tucker-White

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the instructional approach in K-12 and institutions of higher education to be almost solely online. The challenges for schools at the beginning of the pandemic were immense. Schools faced issues such as not having a plan for families to access WiFi, students not having one-to-one devices at home, parents working at home without anyone to help students log in, special education population/disabled students unable to acquire adequate learning services, and students in poverty or experiencing homelessness who were helpless to quarantine and did not know where their next meal would come from. The closing of school doors exacerbated the historical and pervasive educational inequities and generational implications within marginalized communities. Given the tense relationships and not-great experiences with an education that many marginalized families have had, remote learning progression was a rocky one.


Author(s):  
Agita Šmitiņa

The aim of this study is to outline possibilities to improve and develop the student guidance system at Latvia’s higher education institutions, linking these to the main principles of management sciences. Certain problems and weaknesses related to the existing student guidance and support system at Latvian universities have been analysed. The results of a research project aimed at determining the needs of students of guidance showed that the services are very much appreciated among them. The author of this paper offers a series of suggestions and recommendations as to improve student guidance and support services at Latvia’s institutions of higher education. With an eye toward improving these systems, the author proposes the implementation of systematic analysis of the student guidance system, as well as implementation of the results at the national, institutional and individual level.


1930 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 329-331
Author(s):  
John P. Everett

Just One century ago the colleges of America were in process of recognizing and accepting algebra and geometry as appropriate subjects to be studied and presented by candidates for higher education as evidence of their fitness for admission to institutions of higher education. Just a decade ago there was organized the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. None of us took part in the earlier movement: very few of us were present in Cleveland when the Council held its first meeting in 1920: yet both events very properly engage our interest.


1985 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
L. David Weller ◽  
C. Thomas Holmes

49 principals and 73 teachers responded to a survey of 39 institutions of higher education. Significant differences were noted in 6 of 9 competencies needed by secondary teachers in adapting regular curricula for exceptional students. Using this information workshops were developed and attended by 59 secondary teachers and 30 administrators. Significant differences in attitudes were noted but cognitive gains were similar whether workshops were personnel-assisted or not.


2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-270
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Vladimirovich-Bfeloshitsky ◽  
Irina Berezhnay-Fedorovna

The development of higher vocational education in Russia today is oriented towards the process of harmonization of personal and professional development of students. The issue is focused on three different perspectives: pedagogical activity of lecturers in higher vocational institutions, psychological/pedagogical research, and the student?s professional and personal development. The goal to train highly-qualified specialists with versatile personalities at the institutions of higher education depends not only on the applied theoretic/methodological basis, but also on the knowledge of the student?s personality. The first step in the process of planning and realization of the above mentioned educational goal is to provide adequate pedagogical conditions, aimed towards establishing methodological and theoretical bases closer to practice, i.e. the study and implementation of pedagogical personality-oriented technology. This can contribute to the creation of innovative projects and programs for training highly-qualified specialists. Theoretical/methodological and practice-oriented pedagogical conditions are selected and described on the basis of a systematic analysis of the educational process. The essential aspects of these conditions lie in defining appropriate methods for the realization of the educational process for each particular situation. Such methods contribute to the actualization of the students? potentials and enable their self-realization. The presented principles for the development of a personality-oriented educational process are essential for enabling professional development of future specialists.


Horizontes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula de Freitas ◽  
Maria Inês Bacellar Monteiro ◽  
Evani Andreatta Amaral Camargo

ResumoA partir do referencial teórico histórico-cultural do desenvolvimento humano e de conceitos bakhtinianos de interação dialógica e do ato responsável, temos como objetivos neste texto compreender como professores de alunos com deficiência intelectual têm se posicionado diante do ensino na diversidade, que concepções sobre deficiência orientam seu fazer docente e como avaliam seu trabalho com estes alunos. Para responder a tais questões, analisamos encontros entre professores do Ensino Fundamental II e pesquisadores vinculados a instituições de ensino superior, em um processo de reuniões colaborativas. Foram trazidos recortes dessas falas docentes, construídos em dois episódios. Como resultados, compreendemos que os educadores têm conhecimento do que lhes cabe ensinar, no entanto, revelam o conflito em que vivem, trazendo as marcas de uma construção social da deficiência. Avaliamos que os encontros na perspectiva colaborativa podem possibilitar reflexões que permitam aos professores pensar sobre suas ações pedagógicas no ensino da diversidade.Palavras-chave: Diversidade. Perspectiva Histórico-Cultural. Educação Especial. Deficiência Intelectual.Cotidiano Escolar.Contradictions in/from school life: teachers and students with disabilities in face of diversity teachingAbstractBased on the cultural historical theory of human development and on Bakhtinian concepts of dialogicinteraction and responsible act, it is our aim to understand how teachers of students with intellectual disabilities see education in diversity, what conceptions of disability guide their teaching and how they evaluate their work with these students. To answer these questions, we analyzed meetings between Secondary Schoolteachers and researchers linked to institutions of higher education in a process of collaborative meetings. We herein present clippings of the teachers’ speeches, built in two episodes. As a result, we understand that educators are aware of what they must teach, however, they reveal the conflict in which they live, bringing the marks of asocial construction of disability. We conclude that meetings in a collaborative perspective can produce reflections that allow teachers to think about their educational actions in the teaching of diversity.Keywords: Diversity. Cultural Historical Perspective. Special Education. Intellectual Disabilities. School life.


Author(s):  
Mark Ciampa ◽  
Ray Blankenship

Cybersecurity attacks continue to increase.  This is particularly true for attacks based on social engineering or relying on the weaknesses of individuals as a means of gathering information or crafting an attack.  Along with an increase in attacks there is likewise an increase in the number of calls for educating users about attacks and equipping them with the knowledge and skills for warding off attacks.  Many entities advocate that institutions of higher education should be responsible for providing practical, applied security awareness instruction.  This study compared student and instructor attitudes towards security to determine if there is an apathy on the part of students regarding security or if they are concerned about selected security topics, and if instructors perceive that practical, applied security instruction is a necessary component to their courses, or if security instruction belongs elsewhere.  The relationship of student attitudes towards security was compared with those of instructors over six current security topics. When comparing students to instructors to students there was no significant difference between them on the topics of using anti-virus software, using a firewall, securing wireless networks, and using spam filters.  The results seem to indicate that there is a significant difference between the perceptions of students and instructors regarding the security topics of protection from phishing and how to create a strong password.


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