What Every Must Know Special Educator - Council for Exceptional ...

IGC10S1 Use local community, and state
and provincial resources to
assist in programming with
individuals with exceptional
learning needs
IGC10S2 Select, plan, and coordinate
activities of related services
personnel to maximize direct
instruction for individuals with
exceptional learning needs
IGC10S3 Teach parents to use appropriate
behavior management and
counseling techniques
IGC10S4 Collaborate with team members
to plan transition to adulthood
that encourages full community
participation
NOTE:
Implicit to all of the knowledge and skills standards in this section is the focus on individuals with disabilities whose education focuses on an
individualized general curriculum.
CandidaTes: do i Know whaT i need To Know?
The following chart (see Figure 4.5) is a self-evaluation
instrument designed to be used by candidates of
special education to evaluate their progress in learning
the knowledge and skills they will need upon graduation
from the preparation program. Candidates can
use it in a variety of ways. Candidates can check each
knowledge and skill as they are acquired; they can also
include the course number, as well as the specific activity
that they completed as they mastered each item.
Several colleges and universities have used a similar
instrument for their candidates to use to self-evaluate
their mastery of the CEC Standards periodically
throughout the preparation program, including dur-
ing their first year of teaching. This has provided rich
data for the preparation program that can then be used
to improve the program.
The matrix included in this chart is for the
Individualized General Curriculum Referenced
Standards; page limitations have prevented us from
including the other Area of Specialization matrices.
Similar matrices for each Area of Specialization could
easily be prepared using the same format. All of the
CEC standards can be found on the CEC Web site at
www.cec.sped.org .
SECtion : toolS and StratEgiES for uSing thE StandardS 1