Preparing Teachers and Leaders for Urban and Rural Special Education in This Age of Change

Tachelle I Banks; Festus E Obiakor; Floyd Beachum; Bob Algozzine; Sean Warner

Preparing Teachers and Leaders for Urban and Rural Special Education in This Age of Change

Tachelle I Banks
, Festus E Obiakor
, Floyd Beachum
, Bob Algozzine
, Sean Warner

Education and Counseling, School of

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Abstract

The majority of teachers and school leaders in the United States are of a different race, ethnicity, class, gender, and linguistic dominance from that of their students. Special education teachers are specifically challenged by a variety of racial and ethnic issues as they enter their classrooms. In an age plagued with the overrepresentation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in special education programs, it is important that teacher preparation programs within the field of special education devote attention to the devastating effects of deficit thinking. Leadership preparation programs have had a long tradition of silencing the voices of CLD people as well as not providing a vast array of course offerings to help administrators work with racially and ethnically diverse communities. This chapter discusses how teachers and leaders can be prepared to work with urban children and youth with and without special needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Critical Issues in Preparing Effective Early Childhood Special Education Teachers for the 21st Century Classroom: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Publisher	Information Age Publishing
Number of pages	22
State	Published - 2015

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Critical Issues in Preparing Effective Early Childhood Special Education Teachers for the 21st Century Classroom: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Information Age Publishing, 2015.

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