Special Education: How Has Teacher Preparation Changed?
Sometimes parents of students with disabilities will complain that teachers don’t know how to teach special education. This generalization is difficult to pin down. What specifically makes parents believe this? What is it about their student’s teacher that makes them so critical?
With more student placement in inclusion classes, it also isn’t always clear if they are complaining about a general or special education teacher.
If their child’s teacher didn’t do a good job, why not? What college did that teacher attend, and why didn’t they learn what they needed to effectively teach students with disabilities?
I recently wrote a post critical of Teach for America Corps Members who obtain little preparation to teach students with disabilities, but what about teachers who have college degrees and adequate credentials?
Was the child in an inclusion class where the teacher could not specialize their education well? Resource and self-contained classes are often shunned because CONTINUE READING: Special Education: How Has Teacher Preparation Changed?