Vocational Education for the Handicapped. Inservice Instructional Unit IA.

Overview & Synopsis

This unit of instruction is one of a series of materials developed by the Comprehensive Vocational Teacher Education Program for the Mississippi ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) Region to provide teacher educators, vocational directors, teachers, and others with basic instructional materials needed to guide and assist inservice vocational teachers in improving professional teaching competencies. This unit on vocational education for the handicapped contains lesson plans, instructional material, teaching aids, transparency masters, evaluation instruments, and references needed to conduct a minimum of 3 hours of inservice training on the subject. The three lesson plans cover the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142), problems and solutions of mainstreaming, and the Individualized Education Program (IEP). Included in the lesson plans are student learning objectives, materials and equipment needed, introduction, learning activities with suggested dialogue, application (drill, illustration, questions, participation in discussion, and so forth), evaluation, and summary. Directions for using this instructional inservice unit are included in the package. (KC)