Open AccessPersonnel Preparation Projects For Special Education: It Takes More Than Money
Author(s) -
Lawrence Ingalls,
Helen Hammond
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of college teaching and learning/journal of college teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2157-894X
pISSN - 1544-0389
DOI - 10.19030/tlc.v5i10.1222
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , economic shortage , quality (philosophy) , special education , public relations , training (meteorology) , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , business , political science , sociology , computer science , medicine , geography , government (linguistics) , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , meteorology
The issues regarding teacher shortages and retention have been a concern for many years within the special education field. School districts have struggled at not only maintaining quality teachers to fill positions for special education programs, but also to retain these quality teachers in their districts. As an additional challenge, many communities have members that are place bound. These individuals do not wish to leave their families to move to another location to receive university training. Specific strategies used in training models from a variety of projects will be discussed.