Critical Reflections About Students With Special Needs Stories from the Classroom

100 vignettes based on real-life classroom challenges are useful for guiding critical reflections on effective teaching and are linked to the CEC Professional Standards for special education teachers. Vignettes draw uponreal-life challenges encountered in the fieldof special education by both novice and veteran teachers as they attempt to apply best practice standards in particular classroom situations. Each vignette is brief, making themideal for use as a teaching toolduring a class session. The vignettes arearranged according to the ten categories of the CEC Professional Standardsso that instructors can be sure that specific knowledge and skills are covered. Each vignette presents achallenge and guided questionsthat allow instructors to guide students through the reflective process. What Reviewers Are Saying… "I like the way each of the chapters corresponded to the CEC standards. Especially for programs like ours that try to align with these standards, this is very useful and comprehensive." ~Elizabeth Cramer, Florida International University "The vignettes provided relate directly to the social, political, legal, and historical foundations of Special Education. The questions included for each vignette are thought provoking and useful in enhancing the critical thinking process." ~Joe M. Blackbourn, University of MississippiCoots, Jennifer J. is the author of 'Critical Reflections About Students With Special Needs Stories from the Classroom', published 2006 under ISBN 9780205496068 and ISBN 0205496067.