Title

Teachers In Action: High-Tech, High-Touch Service-Learning With Special Populations

Abstract

Teachers are increasingly expected to work with children with varying disabilities in the least restrictive environment-most commonly, the general education classroom. Yet, teachers who did not major in special education remain unprepared to meet the needs of children with disabilities in the classroom because they received no relevant formal field experiences during their pre-service years. As a result, unknowledgeable teachers may retain damaging stereotypes of persons with disabilities, hold a reduced sense of teacher efficacy to include all learners, and in the end, be less willing to work with exceptional students in their classes. This chapter provides an overview of a Florida-based project that aims to connect communities, nonprofit organizations, university pre-service teachers, and persons with disabilities using high-tech, high-touch service-learning. © 2011, IGI Global.

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Publication Title

Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices

Number of Pages

182-190

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch016

Socpus ID

84898224652 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84898224652

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