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and advocate for the resources to implement them.
Finally, candidates in teacher preparation programs
are given a tool to help them measure their progress in
developing their professional competence.
Of note is the indexing of the CEC standards by publishers
such as Pearson and Merrill throughout their
textbooks and resources to help candidates to understand
the relationship of the standards to the resources
from which they are learning.
Section 5 includes the Initial and Advanced
Professional Content Standards as well as the validated
Knowledge and Skill Sets for beginning teachers
Appendix 1 contains sets of selected CEC Initial
Common Core Knowledge and Skills that address
topical areas.
Appendix 2 offers a brief description of the relationship
of the knowledge and skill sets to the Content
Standards.
Appendix 3 contains a flowchart to help faculty identify
the appropriate knowledge and skill set for their
program(s).
Appendix 4 contains a brief descriptive history of the
development of the CEC Standards and a timeline of
significant events in the history of special education
and professional standards.
Appendix 5 contains the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards for Exceptional
Needs.
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and for those special educators moving into advanced
roles. These standards represent the knowledge and
skill base that professionals entering practice or assuming
advanced roles should possess to practice
safely and effectively. The standards that programs
are required to meet for CEC and CEC/NCATE accreditation
are provided.
Section 6 provides information about the increasingly
critical role of paraeducators in special education
service delivery, the CEC standards for paraeducator
preparation, and tools paraeducators and paraeducator
training programs can use to ensure that they are
meeting the standards.
Appendix 6 contains a table that indexes the CEC Initial
Common Core to the INTASC Principles.
Appendix 7 describes the procedures for CEC national
program recognition outside of the partnership with
NCATE.
Appendix 8 contains a special education mentoring
program implementation checklist based on the CEC
guidelines for mentorship.
Appendix 9 provides CEC professional policies and
position statements directly related to the CEC
Standards.
Appendix 10 describes the basics for developing and
implementing the programwide performance assessment
process with an eye on NCATE unit review.
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