CTD Resource Library:
The CTD website provides a wealth of free resources – personal and professional development (PPD) webinars, articles, guides, training materials and more. Open Courseware: (Special Education)
Autism OERs:
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The CTD website provides a wealth of free resources – personal and professional development (PPD) webinars, articles, guides, training materials and more. Open Courseware: (Special Education)
- 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.
- Clearinghouse for Special Education Teaching Cases: This national clearinghouse was designed and developed by the Special Education Department at the University of South Florida, as part of a federal OSEP Special Projects grant.
The clearinghouse contains 54 problem-based teaching cases on a variety of topics that are matched to CEC's standards of practice. The cases are true stories told by practicing teachers representing different regions of the US and numerous educational settings. Instructors may search for cases by title, topic, or CEC Accomplished Practices - Understanding dyslexia
- The autistic spectrum: From theory to practice
- Assistive technologies and online learning
- Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design: Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders
The educator's guide to Learning Disabilities and ADHD - Psychosocial Aspects of Visual Impairment
- Play development in children with disabilities
- Disorders in Children
- Response to Intervention: Resources
- Response to Intervention, Teacher Preparation
- Video Series: Disabilities and Different Abilities
- Strategies for Working With Emotionally Unpredictable Students
- Teaching Children With Developmental Disabilities: Classroom Ideas
- Supporting Appropriate Behavior in Students with Asperger’s
Autism OERs:
- What do you really know about Autism? Can you separate fact from reality? An interactive quiz to help students see what their preconceived knowledge of autism is.
- Growing Up Together:(For School-Aged Peers):This 4-page, large-type booklet is targeted to elementary-aged school children. It uses simple language to talk about what autism is and how to become friends with someone on the autism spectrum.
- Growing Up Together:(For Middle School-Aged Peers):This 4-page, booklet is written for teenagers. It uses basic language to talk about what autism is and how to be friends with someone on the autism spectrum.
- Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design: Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Video: The Brain and Autism
- Building Our Future: Educating Students on the Autism Spectrum
- Childhood in the Digital Age
- Introduction to Child Psychology
- 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
- Involving the family in supporting pupils' literacy learning
- Child Growth and Development
- Individualized Reading Instruction in the Elementary Grades
- The Learning Classroom: Theory into Practice: This is an online college course developed for students preparing to be teachers, as well as in-service K-12 classroom teachers and other educators.
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: The Art and Science of Teaching
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Different learners, different minds
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: The Unity of Emotion, Thinking, and Learning
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Seeing Others from the Self
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Different Brains
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Building New Neural Networks
- 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.
- Digital Personalization in Early Childhood Impact on Childhood
- Educational Psychology
- ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios
- Instruction in Functional Assessment
- Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice
- How to Attract Students' Visual Attention
- Future Research Directions for Innovating Pedagogy
- Effective Classroom Management: An Interactive Textbook
- PBS Learning Media : The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, podcasts and documents.
- Move to include( video series):This collection of videos and activities, targeting grades 5-12, comes from Move to Include, the multiplatform public media initiative designed to promote inclusion for people with intellectual and physical disabilities.
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