The Novice Special Education Teacher Program is designed to provide support, mentoring and professional learning for special education teachers with three years or less of teaching experience in special education. A lot of research on novice teacher programs has indicated clearly that the support, mentoring and professional learning for novice special education teachers is very different from the needs of novice general education teachers. This program will focus on:
•highly effective specially designed instruction
•best practices to support inclusion, collaborative lesson planning and instruction integrated across special and general education
•universal design for learning and universal instruction
•behavior supports integrated into instruction to increase student engagement and self-control