There is no use denying the fact that nowadays education plays an important role in the life of every person. The thing is that due to the achieved level of technical development a person obtains a great number of facts every day.
Moreover, he/she should process them and be able to use all information which comes from different sources. Besides, taking into account tempos of the development of science nowadays, it is possible to assume that new approaches to some traditional things will appear and a person should be ready to face these challenges
Under these conditions, the issue of special education obtains great importance. The thing is that there have always been people with some special needs. Thus, nowadays they also want to become the part of a scientific sphere and obtain a good education. Moreover, technical revolution created many various remedies which could help people with special needs to obtain knowledge. With this in mind, it is possible to say that the issue of special education should be given especial importance and researched nowadays.
Investigating this issue, it is possible to say, that it is quite easy to obtain the needed information. The thing is that the key words like special education, special needs, value-added assessment, teacher preparation could help to find the needed sources connected with the issue. Moreover, there are no certain search limiters as a great number of sources, found with the help of these key words, could be used for the investigation of the issue.
The only thing which should be given especial importance is the credibility of a source. A researcher could not use the information which is not proved and can distort results of the investigation. That is why, only scholarly sources could be recommended for investigation. For example, peer reviewed articles could be used to obtain the needed information connected with the issue.
The term peer reviewed means that specialists, who investigate the same sphere and are informed about the latest tendencies in it, have read and analyzed the given work and found it credible. This source could become very useful in any research project as it could suggest some new idea or vision of the problem and, moreover, it does not contradict to the leading thought. That is why it is vital to use peer reviewed sources in any research work.
The next two articles belong to the sources of this kind. The first one is Special Education Services Received by Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders From Preschool Through High School. It centers around special education services provided for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. (Wei, Wagner, Christiano, Shattuck, & Yu, 2013).
The work analyzes the main conditions under which these students study and suggests a certain vision of the qualities and skills which a teacher, who work with them, should obtain. The second article is entitled Inclusion of Children With Special Needs in Early Childhood Education.
The authors also cogitate about the environment which is demanded for children with special needs (Lee, Yeung, Tracey, & Barker, 2015). Moreover, they outline the fact that a teacher should be prepared and be ready to work with these people. From these two articles, it becomes obvious that the issue of special education is rather complicated and it demands creation of a certain environment for students with special needs and, moreover, teachers should also be prepared for this kind of work.
References
Gansle, K., Noell, G., Beckers, G., Stringer, A., Roberts, N., & Burns, J. (2015). Value-Added Assessment of Teacher Preparation. Implications for Special Education. Intervention in School and Clinic, 51(2). 106-111. doi: 10.1177/1053451215579267
Kennedy, M., Alves, K., & Rodgers, W. (2015).Innovations in the Delivery of Content Knowledge in Special Education Teacher Preparation. Intervention in School and Clinic, 51(2). 73-81. doi: 10.1177/1053451215579268
Lee,F., Yeung, A., Tracey, D, & Barker, K. (2015) Inclusion of Children With Special Needs in Early Childhood Education. What Teacher Characteristics Matter. Early Childhood Special Education, 35(2), 79-88. doi:10.1177/0271121414566014
Powell, S. (2015)Connecting Evidence-Based Practice With Implementation Opportunities in Special Education Mathematics Preparation. Intervention in School and Clinic, 51(2). 90-96. doi: 10.1177/1053451215579269
Wei, X., Wagner, M., Christiano, E., Shattuck, P., & Yu, J. (2013). Special Education Services Received by Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders From Preschool Through High School. Journal of Special Education, 48(3). 167-179. doi: 10.1177/0022466913483576