Resources for Teachers

Websites

• Inclusion
• Empowered: Self-Determination Curriculum for Visual Impairment
• The Learning Community for Person-Centered Practices
• Capacity Works: Books and Worksheets
• Self-Determined Career Development Model- Training Modules
  
• The PARAprofessional  Resource and Research Center
  
• Preparing Teachers to Direct the Work of Paraprofessionals
  
• IDEAL: Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination
  
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
• The Self-Determination Handbook
  
• Radford University: Training and Technical Assistance Center
  
• Partners for Success-Creating Inclusive Environments
  
• Parent Training and Support
  
• Wrightslaw
  
• American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
  
• Network Solutions
  
• FASD Links
• Keogel Autism Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
  
• Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Supports
  
• Behavior Analysis Resources
  
• Learning Disabilities Association of America
  
• National Multicultural Institute
  
• Early Childhood Institute-Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  
• Educating the Child with Prader Willi-Syndrome
  
• U.S. Department of Education
  
• Online Training Modules
  
• Brookes Publishing
  
• Highly Qualified Teacher- IDEA (PDF)
  
• Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008
  
• Alaska State Department of Education
  
• Transition Coalition, University of Kansas
• Self-Directed Learning

Student-Led IEP's

• A Student's Guide to the IEP (PDF)
  Direct Observation of Teacher Directed IEP Meetings: Establishing the Need for Student IEP Meeting Instruction
  James E.Martin, Jamie L. VAn Dycke, J.Emmett Gardner, W. Robert Christensen, Lee L. Woods, David L. Lovett
• IEP Portfolio Template
  Becky Wilson Hawbaker
• Promoting Student Voice in Schools
• Student-Led IEP Meetings: Planning and Implementation Strategies
  Becky Wilson Hawbaker, Teaching Exceptional Children Plus, May 2007
• Who Makes the Choices? I Do Student-Led IEPs

Classroom Resources

• Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation
• Sparktop.org
  SparkTop.org is a new Schwab Learning resource designed for teachers of students ages 8-12 with learning difficulties, offers tools and ideas for educators to help these children build their self-esteem. The site offers activities on developing leadership and problem-solving skills in a supportive environment, links on topics such as test-taking strategies and adapting a classroom to fit the needs of students with learning disabilities, and a newsletter.

Person-Centered Planning

• Inclusion Press
• The Person-Centered Planning Education Site
  Cornell University
  
• Imagine
  David Pitonyak, Consultant

Post-secondary Education

• Students with Disabilities Preparing for Post-Secondary Education
  Office of Civil Rights
• Topical Report (PDF)
  A National Study on Graduation Requirements and Diploma Options for Youth with Disabilities, National Center on Secondary Education and Transition, The College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota

Professional Organizations

• Center for Self-Determination and Transition, College of Education, Wayne State University
• Center for Self-Determination, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• Council for Exceptional Children
• Pacer Center
• TASH: Equity Opportunities and Inclusion for People with Disabilities
• The Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas

Schools

• Chugach School District
• Coalition of Essential Schools
• Inclusion and Learning in Essential Schools
  Horace Newsletter, Winter 2005
• Quest High School, Humble, Texas
  Authentic Intellectual Work: What and Why?
  Fred M. Newmann, University of Wisconsin
• Steller Secondary School
• The Big Picture Company- One Student at a Time

Self-Advocacy

• KASA - Kids As Self Advocates

Self-Determination

• A Parent's Guide to the Self-Determined Learning Model for Early Elementary Students
  Susan B. Palmer and Michael Wehmeyer
• Promoting the Self-Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities
  Michael Wehmeyer
• Center for Self-Determination
• Increasing Student Success Through Instruction for Self-Determination
  Michael Wehmeyer
• National Dropout Prevention Centers
• Promoting Access to the General Curriculum by Teaching Self-Determination Skills (PDF)
  Susan B. Palmer, Michael L. Wehmeyer, Krista Gipson, and Martin Agran
• Promoting Self-Determination in Students with Developmental Disabilities
  Michael Wehmeyer, The Guilford Press, 2007
• Self-Determination: Instructional and Assessment Strategies
  Michael L. Wehmeyer and Sharon L. Field
• Self-Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities
  Michael Wehmeyer
• Self-Determination and Student Involvement in Standards - Based Reform (PDF)
  Michael L. Wehmeyer, Sharon Field, Bonnie Doren, Bonnie Jones, and Christine Mason
• Self-Determination Synthesis Project
• Self-Determination Theory
• Stop Bullying Now
• Taking Charge: Stories of Success and Self-Determination (PDF)
  Sheryl Burgstahler
• Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self-Determination
  Alan Hoffman
• Teaching Self-Determination to Early Elementary Students

Research

• Beach Center on Disabilities, University of Kansas (PDF)
  
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- Self-Determination for People with Developmental Disabilities
  
• Teachers perceptions of self-determination for hearing impaired and deaf students
  
• Does Problem-Solving and Goal-Setting Instruction Promote Self-Determination in
  Early Elementary Students With Disabilities? - By: Susan Palmer and Michael Wehmeyer (PDF)
• Promoting Self-Determination in Young Children with Disabilities: The Critical Role of Families - By: Karrie A. Shogren and Ann P. Turnbull (PDF)

Preschool, Kindergarten, Secondary & Elementary

• Self-Determination: Instructional and Assessment Strategies by Michael L Wehmeyer and Sharon Field
• Resources for Involving Students in their IEP process
• TA FAQ's: Motivation
• Teaching Self-Determination to Early Elementary Students
• Promoting Self-Determination in Early Elementary School
• Promoting Self-determination in Young Children With Disabilities (PDF)
• Does Problem-Solving and Goal-Setting Instruction Promote Self-Determination in Early Elementary Students With Disabilities? (PDF)
• Factors Influencing the Self-Determination of Transition-Age Youth With High-Incidence Disabilities
• Learning Disability Resource Community
  
• Circle of Inclusion
  
• Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMP)
• Resources for Parents
• The National Center for Child Care Inclusion
  
• CEC: The Division for Early Childhood
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• ZERO TO THREE
  
• The National Fragile X Foundation
• Student Involvement in Transition Planning (PDF)
• Teaching Self-Determination and Arizona Standards for K-12 Students with Disabilities: Lesson Plan Portfolio
• Exploring Self-Determination Skills with Students with Special Needs: Using Folktales to Examine Justice and Fairplay
• Elementary-Age Students at their own IEP meetings? Too Soon, Too Much Work or Just What We Need to Make Our Jobs Easier and Fun? (PDF)
• Does Problem-Solving and Goal-Setting Instruction Promote Self-Determination in Early Elementary Students with Disabilities? - By: Susan Palmer and Michael Wehmeyer (PDF)
• Promoting Self-Determination in Young Children with Disabilities: The Critical Role of Families - By: Karrie A. Shogren and Ann P. Turnbull (PDF)
  

School Reform

• National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future
• Response to Intervention
• Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide
  Alfie Kohn - PHI DELTA KAPPAN, September, 1993
• Choice Making: A Strategy for Students with Severe Disabilities (PDF)
  Alison M. Stafford - Teaching Exceptional Children, July/August 2005
• Coalition of Essential Schools Northwest
• Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
  Alfie Kohn
• Learn and Serve America
• The Catalog of School Reform Models
• The Right to Learn
  Linda Darling Hammond
  

Conferences

• National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness

Transition

• Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment, University  of Oklahoma
  
• DO-IT- Steaming Video Presentations with Support Publications/Self-Determination University of Washington
• Centers for Independent Living - Building Support for Transition Aged Youth
• NCSET: National Center on Secondary Education Education and Transition
• ThinkCollege.Net
• The Transition Center at the University of Florida
• Transition to College-sponsored by the Post Secondary Resource Center
• What's Health Got to Do with Transition? Everything
• What’s Next: Student Transition and Educational Planning

Voices

ECLG - Empowering Students- Improving Outcomes
Interview with David Test

Education 2050
Dee Dickinson

Relish is for More than Hot Dogs: Helping Students Make Their Own Sweet Success (PDF)

Textbooks

• Self-Instruction Pedagogy: How to Teach Self-determined Learning by Dennis E. Mithaug and James E. Martin and Martin Agran and Michael L. Wehmeyer and Deirdre K. Mithaug
  Softcover, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, ISBN 0398077231 (0-398-07723-1)
• Self-Instruction Pedagogy: How to Teach Self-determined Learning
  Hardcover, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, ISBN 0398077223 (0-398-07722-3)
• Bookfinder.com
• A Student’s Guide to the IEP (PDF)
• For more detailed information on student-facilitated IEP meetings, explore Student-Led IEP’s; A Guide For Student Involvement. A copy can be purchased or downloaded from The Council for Exceptional Children’s website
• Student-Directed Learning; Teachers’ Guides to Inclusive Practices
  Martin Agran, Margaret E. King- Sears, Michael L. Wehmeyer, and Susan R. Copeland
  

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