Building a Teacher Support Program

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Professor David Westling of Western Carolina University and other researchers have tackled a difficult issue within the field of special education: how can school systems and higher education work towards supporting our special educators in the classroom? Below is a link to an article featured in TEACHING Exceptional Children from 2005 that gives a succinct yet thorough overview of a very important program that is now available in a similar form from East Tennessee State University's Teacher Support Program.

Building a Teacher Support Program



For a thorough look at the TSP, the link below will take you a scholarly research article from Remedial and Special Education (May/June 2006).



The Teacher Support Program

Please take a look at these articles; feel free to give us feedback on what part of the program would be helpful to your needs as a special educator. Add comments and use our poll to give feedback.

[John]

I thought this article really shed some light on the issues facing educators of exceptional children. Loved the multiple components

[coach]

I will get to the article, but I think there is at times a lack of understanding from the regular education population on what special education is and is not. There are times, in my opinion, when the regular education population (teachers or administrators who used to be regular ed. teachers) do not understand the responsibility of a SPED program.