7/20/2009
Looking for Information About Obtaining Your Teacher Certification in Exceptional Student Education?
Seeking an endorsement in Autism or PMH?
Are you an ESE teacher with questions about your Highly Qualified Teacher status?
Answers to these questions and more can be found at Florida’s Personnel Development Website http://www.florida-ese.org/personneldevelopment/.
Interested In the Connection between Quality and Inclusion???
You may find “Why Program Quality Matters for Early Childhood Inclusion” of
interest. Only a handful of states address children with disabilities in their early child care quality rating systems. As a result, few states are evaluating the quality of inclusive programs and services. This problem is compounded by a lack of consensus on dimensions that define high quality inclusion and a need for additional measures of quality inclusive practices. A new NPDCI paper advocates for the need to link early childhood program quality and professional development, with a particular focus on how this topic relates to early childhood inclusion. This paper was prepared by the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion (NPDCI) and is available at http://community.fpg.unc.edu/resources/articles/npdci-quality-paper/view.
Measuring Quality in Early Childhood Settings
In recent years, the importance of measuring quality well in early childhood programs has gained increasing attention. Several new Child Trends issue briefs related to this topic are now available online. These include:
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Issues for the Next Decade of Child Care Quality Rating Systems (May 2009)http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2009_5_19_RB_QualityRating.pdf
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What We Know and Don’t Know About Measuring Quality in Early Childhood and School-Age Care and Education Settings (May 2009)
http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2009_5_20_RB_WhatWeKnow.pdf -
Multiple Purposes for Measuring Quality in Early Childhood Settings: Implications for Collecting and Communicating Information on Quality (May 2009)
http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2009_5_20_RB_MultPurposes.pdf -
Early Care and Education Quality and Child Outcomes (May 2009)
http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2009_5_21_RB_earlycare.pdf -
Evaluating, Developing, and Enhancing Domain-Specific Measures of Child Care Quality (May 2009)
http:/www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2009_5_21_RB_MeasureChildCar.pdf
Information from BEESS: Education Information and Accountability Services 2009 Database Workshop
The 2009 Database Workshop is now accessible via the Department of Education Web site at http://www.fldoe.org/eias/databaseworkshop/presentations.asp. This virtual format includes PowerPoint handouts in conjunction with movie clip presentations. Please share this information with colleagues as well as school faculty and staff. Topics include:
- Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- Major Areas of Interest
- Attendance
- Dropout Prevention and Juvenile Justice
- Homeless Children and Youth
- Compulsory School Immunization Update
- Exceptional Student Education
- School Safety and Discipline Data
- Voluntary Prekindergarten Education
Family Center on Technology and Disability Summer Institute
| July 20, 2009 | to | July 31, 2009 |
The Family Center on Technology and Disability is pleased to provide a free, 2-week online summer institute. The Family Center’s summer institutes have been extremely popular, connecting educators, disability professionals and parents throughout the country with leading national experts in assistive and instructional technologies. This year’s institute will have two learning strands. The Accessible Instructional Materials strand will explain and explore the world of accessible media, including the laws designed to get instructional materials into the hands of students with print disabilities. Participants will learn about digital formats, how to find and access digital books, and about software and hardware suitable for classroom, home, and therapeutic environments. The second strand, Social Media Tools, focuses on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and thousands of blogs, wikis, and related social media tools. When well used, they connect, inform, entertain, and educate.
