Special Education

Staff Input Page on Special Education

Are our special education population being served adequately at our school?

Do you think that there should be a greater effort to integrate special education students into regular classrooms?

Should IEP's trump class ratio quotas?

Does your administrative leadership effectively support special education?

Is there adequate technology to support special education?

What is FAPE? 

Resources for Special education:

http://idea.ed.gov/

http://www.naset.org/

http://www.fape.org/

Video:

A day in the life of a special education teacher.

Technology In Education

STAFF INPUT PAGE ON TECHNOLOGY

Guiding Questions on Technology:

How does technology help support meeting your students needs?

Do you feel that technology sometimes hinders the learning process? If so how?

With the different layers of technology, what applications are most useful to you? What applications are not useful to you?

Is technology leadership a shared function within the district or does it primarily reside in one person?

What percentage of technology-related expenditures go toward educator professional development?

 What percentage of the technologies purchased by the district were primarily student-centric (as opposed to teacher-centric)?

When was the last time (if ever) that students were asked about their experiences using (or not using) technology in their classes? What did they say?

How many minutes per week, on average, do students use digital technologies as part of their classroom learning experiences (and how do they spend those minutes)?

MAC or PC?

Resources to help spark your inquiry:

Access, Adequacy,

and Equity in

Education Technology

Videos:

Nicholas Carr Interview

Comedy on CBC called "The Debaters" topic Mac vs. PC

STAFF INPUT PAGE ON LEADERSHIP

Guiding Questions on Leadership:

How does leadership in your school support your ability to address your student needs?

If yes how does this support affect how your meeting student needs?

If no how and what would you change about your leadership to have the ability to address student needs?

Resources that may spark some topics:

http://www.rtinetwork.org/learn/what/whatisrti

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept07/vol65/num01/Ten-Roles-for-Teacher-Leaders.aspx

Teachers' perspectives on how principals

promote teaching and learning in schools

Introduction To this Blog

This Blog contains various topics related to important education topics including leadership, technology and special education. This is a platform for you to express your opinions on how you view leadership, technology and special education in your school or school district.