In this assignment, you will identify 3 effective practices or interventions that have been proven in the professional literature to be effective with children with special needs and 3 ineffective practices used with this population. You can use the effective practices in Assignment 1, but your analysis of the professional literature needs to be thorough. You will also find 3 interventions or practices that have proven to be ineffective with this same population. Your analysis of both effective and ineffective practices needs to reflect the professional literature, not your opinion.
These interventions may be academic or social and do not have to use only classroom examples, but can be from community and home settings as well. The ineffective strategies may be ineffective because of poor implementation, or the theoretical foundation may be flawed. You can use practices that you have seen used with children with special needs in any setting – not just the classroom- but you should provide some professional references and clear statements about why these interventions or practices are ineffective or inappropriate, not your opinion. So, you should have a final paper of no more than 5 pages containing 3 effective and 3 ineffective interventions or practices. These interventions do not need to be listed in any order, such as best to worst or good to best. You will be able to use the content articles you selected for use in effective practices and practices in Assignment 1, but you will have to add to that the ineffective practices or interventions in order to write a group paper that examines the 3 most effective interventions and 3 ineffective classroom practices that are used with children with special needs. You should also explain why you selected the three most ineffective strategies. This need not be a lengthy discussion, but you must provide a coherent explanation as to why you consider them ineffective. You must receive a score of at least 80% in order to pass the class. If you receive a score of less than 80%, you will have to work with the instructor in order to complete a remedial program for this assignment.
You should also use interventions that have been used within the last 20 years. No need to discuss trepanning (You’ll have to look that up). Have some fun with this assignment.
General Rubric For All Assignments
This rubric will be used in evaluating the quality of your discussion contributions and written assignments. Numeric values are not assigned to the categories as they change according to the value of the assignment. I want to see well thought out and referenced ideas, not opinion based on experience. Experience is a wonderful thing, but in this course we will stick to researched facts from your text and peer-reviewed articles.
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Grasp of readings
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Excellent Writing and oral expression represents researched perspective, evidence and conclusions accurately, fairly, and eloquently; Demonstrates a firm understanding of the implications of researched arguments. |
Good Writing and oral presentation represents the researched perspective, evidence, and conclusions accurately but with little detail. |
Developing Writing and oral presentation mostly represents the researched perspective, evidence, and conclusions though not clearly and/or there are minor inaccuracies. Some opinion. |
Needs Improvement Writing and/or poor oral presentation represents the researched perspective, evidence, and/or conclusions. Mostly opinion. |
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Critical analysis |
Excellent Presents a clear, focused, and compelling position. Recognizes and presents the complexity of the issue. |
Good Position/opinions articulated well but needs more support and refining. |
Developing Analysis and thought are limited. Lacks support from research. Some opinion. |
Needs Improvement Vague and general comments. Mostly opinion. |
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Evidence |
Excellent Evidence is cited, detailed, and well-chosen. Evidence is clearly articulated. |
Good Evidence is well chosen but not well articulated, is not particularly presented and not clearly substantiated. |
Developing Evidence is weak and lacking in detail. Some opinion. |
Needs Improvement Evidence does not support ideas. Mostly opinion. |
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Organization & Clarity |
Excellent Thoughts flow logically with good transitions, including supported research. |
Good Thoughts are mostly well-structured and mostly presented clearly. |
Developing Jumps from one idea to another without structure, transitions or connections.
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Needs Improvement Thoughts are not presented logically. Mostly opinion. |
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Mechanics |
Excellent When applicable, thoughts/paper are appropriately organized using APA format throughout. There are no incomplete or run on sentences. No spelling or grammar issues. |
Good Thoughts/paper is appropriately organized with only minor grammatical issues. |
Developing There are many formatting, spelling, word usage and grammar issues. |
Needs Improvement Unacceptable. There are incomplete and/or run-on sentence(s). Thoughts are characterized by spelling and grammar errors. |
