Special educators understand the effects that an exceptional condition2/ can have on an individual’s learning in school and throughout life. Special educators understand that the beliefs, traditions, and values across and within cultures can affect relationships among and between students, their families, and the school community. Moreover, special educators are active and resourceful in seeking to understand how primary language, culture, and familial backgrounds interact with the individual’s exceptional condition to impact the individual’s academic and social abilities, attitudes, values, interests, and career options. The understanding of these learning differences and their possible interactions provide the foundation upon which special educators individualize instruction to provide meaningful and challenging learning for individuals with ELN.
Beginning special educators demonstrate their mastery of this standard through the mastery of the CEC Common Core Knowledge and Skills, as well as through the appropriate CEC Specialty Area(s) Knowledge and Skills for which the program is preparing candidates.
Common Core
| Knowledge: |
| CC3K1 | Effects an exceptional condition(s) can have on an individual’s life. |
| CC3K2 | Impact of learners’ academic and social abilities, attitudes, interests, and values on instruction and career development. |
| CC3K3 | Variations in beliefs, traditions, and values across and within cultures and their effects on relationships among individuals with exceptional learning needs. Family, and schooling. |
| CC3K4 | Cultural perspectives influencing the relationships among families, schools and communities as related to instruction. |
| CC3K5 | Differing ways of learning of individuals with exceptional learning needs including those from culturally diverse backgrounds and strategies for addressing these differences. |
Early Childhood
| Knowledge: None in addition to Common Core |
| Skill: |
| EC3S1 | Use intervention strategies with young children and their families that affirm and respect family, cultural, and linguistic diversity. |
4. Instructional Strategies
