Discuss how you collaborate with special education teachers to communicate, create, and store student documentation. Describe one or two of your favorite co-teaching strategies.

Field Experience C: Technology, Collaboration, and Co-Teaching

Discuss the similarities and differences among students with and without disabilities.
Describe the characteristics of various disabilities and their educational implications for students at your school.
Explain the effects disabilities can have on students’ academic and social development, attitudes, interests, and values.
Describe how factors such as cultural diversity and human issues affect students with disabilities.
Explain how you address the unique learning needs of students with disabilities in the classroom, including those students with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Explain strategies you use when collaborating and co-teaching with special education teachers. Include discussion of why it is important to view the special education teacher as a co-teacher rather than a behavior enforcer or aid in the classroom.
Describe how you use various types of technology to support students with disabilities.
Describe the legal responsibilities you have to protect the rights and privacy of students with disabilities. Include discussion of IDEA, procedural safeguards, FERPA, HIPAA, etc. Include examples of some dilemmas associated with upholding these standards.
Discuss how you collaborate with special education teachers to communicate, create, and store student documentation.
Describe one or two of your favorite co-teaching strategies.

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