Open Courseware: (Special Education)
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- IRIS Resource Locator: The IRIS Center from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College offers free online interactive resources that "translate research about the education of students with disabilities into practice." Included in their comprehensive coverage of evidence-based topics are: behavior, Response to Intervention (RtI), learning strategies, and progress monitoring. Contains articles, videos and courseware. Use the Filtering tool to find what you need. Huge resources outlined in a logical and easy to understand format.
- Teaching Our Youngest A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child Care and Family Providers
- Helping Your Preschool Child With activities for children from infancy through age 5
- Introduction to Nutrition
- Child Development Institute: A site "designed to provide the information and tools parents need to understand their unique child/children and to enable them to help each child develop into the successful human being they were meant to be." Has useful sections about Ages/Stages, Development, Health/Safety, Psychology, and more.
- Partnering with Parents
- Attachment in the early years
- Parents and toddlers: Teaching and learning at home
- Involving the family in supporting pupils' literacy learning
- Helping Parents Deal with the Fact That Their Child Has a Disability
- Goal Setting for Children with Learning Disabilities: Your Role Is Important
- Communicating with parents
- First year Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers: Challenges of Working with Parents
- First year teacher: the parent teacher conference
- Understanding dyslexia
- Assistive technologies and online learning
- New Teacher Survival Guide: ADHD in the Classroom
- Strategies for Working With Emotionally Unpredictable Students
- The educator's guide to Learning Disabilities and ADHD
- Teaching Children With Developmental Disabilities: Classroom Ideas
- Psychosocial Aspects of Visual Impairment
- Response to Intervention, Teacher Preparation
- Childhood in the Digital Age
- Introduction to Child Psychology
- Understanding children: Babies being heard
- Infants' understanding of their social world
- Play, learning and the brain
- The role of play in children's learning
- Exploring children's learning
- Understanding early years environments and children's spaces
- Teaching assistants: support in action
- Child Growth and Development
- Infant and Early Childhood Cognition
- Preschool Learning Standards and Guidelines
- Early Education and Care in Inclusive Settings
- Principles of Human Nutrition
- Junk food and kids
- Reading 101: This is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers, developed by Reading Rockets. The program provides teachers with an in-depth knowledge of reading and writing so they are prepared to guide their students into becoming skilled and enthusiastic readers and writers. The 10 modules include video segments featuring teachers using effective strategies and techniques in the classroom on subjects such as phonemic awareness, phonics, speech sounds, and text comprehension.
- Early Education and Care: Core Competencies: From the University of Massachusetts, this course is designed to provide early childhood education professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess their own level in terms of the eight core competencies, across the infant-toddler, preschool and out-of-school age range.
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