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Title: Development and Design of a Merged Secondary and Special Education Teacher Preparation Program.
Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
Release Date : January 22, 2011
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 224 KB

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I want to be able to teach health to every student that comes into my classroom, can you teach me to do that? (SDEP Health Education Applicant). Public schools, spurred by federal education reform (NCLB, IDEA 2004), strive to increase the performance of all students through standards, accountability, inclusive classrooms, access to the general education curriculum, and providing teachers qualified in the subjects they teach. As middle and secondary classrooms become increasingly inclusive, some special educators may not be prepared to teach content (Brouk, 2005; Washburn-Moses, 2005), and some general educators may not be prepared to address diverse learning needs (McClanahan, 2008; Ness, 2008) . This mismatch between the reality of today's schools and traditional teacher preparation (Hardman, 2009) has led to the development of new models for teacher education that integrate or merge special education and general education. Teacher education programs fall into three categories: discrete, integrated, or merged (Blanton & Pugach, 2007). Most teacher preparation is provided via the discrete model of separate general and special education programs. Recently professional organizations have questioned whether discrete programs adequately prepare either special or general education teachers for today's schools (Blanton & Pugach, 2007).