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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

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It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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Improving online accessibility for students a major issue for schools

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stating that both universities violated antidiscrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts, and other educational materials. It’s also our ethical obligation to include students with disabilities in the [conversation] when we decide to give people access to educational content.”

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SEL Can Help Special Educators Address Rapidly Evolving Remote Learning Requirements

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A third challenge resulting from the pandemic has been how teachers should address the rapidly evolving requirements for remote learning—from what goals to teach to, to logging instructional hours, addressing absenteeism and cataloging evidence of learning—for their students with special education needs.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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Younger students, and students with disabilities that impact executive function, struggle more in fully asynchronous learning environments, and may require adult supervision to work through asynchronous assignments. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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Summarized transcription versus real-time captioning: What’s best?

eSchool News

They offer real-time summarized transcripts for lectures, meetings, and live events, either remotely or in the classroom. Because it’s meant for quick comprehension, it is measured in terms of how closely the content captures the speaker’s intended meaning but doesn’t take into account the precise words.

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Special Ed Students Have Lost Many Services. Here’s How SEL Strategies Can Help.

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The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. We asked the same questions to more than 1,000 special educators and they added feeling exhausted, frustrated and confused. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating?

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Five (Easy-to-Implement) Ways Video Can Have a Powerful Impact on Teaching and Learning

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The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Including video in classroom instruction offers numerous benefits for both educators and students. Studies have shown that video lectures are effective because they allow class time to be used in more engaging ways. Tips for Using Video In Class.

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