Recent efforts to improve American educational practices have focused on determining the efficacy of interventions and instructional practices via randomized controlled trials. Aligned with this effort, the Institute for Education Sciences (IES), the primary funding agency for experimental research in education, has organized grant funding into…

This paper describes 10 components of a comprehensive classroom-based program for students with emotional and behavioral problems included in regular classrooms. It contrasts the program's educative approach with more control-oriented approaches and discusses methods to overcome common barriers to implementation of such programs. (DB)

The paper describes a structured model for planning and monitoring behavior change programs with handicapped learners. The Behavior Teaching Plan functions as both a process and product, emphasizes the teaching of socially acceptable behaviors, and utilizes formative evaluation through use of intervention planning sheets and flow charts.…

The article describes the physical and programmatic features of early childhood special education classrooms with emphasis on how these features work together to promote engagement and prevent behavior problems. Suggestions are offered to help teachers discriminate problems that require environmental reorganization from problems that are better…

Adolescents with ADHD experience serious impairment that taxes our education, mental health, and healthcare systems as well as the children and families. The development and evaluation of effective treatments for these youth have lagged far behind that of many other disorders and age groups. This manuscript describes the treatment development…

The objective of the Special Education Department at California University of Pennsylvania is to prepare broadly trained teachers of handicapped children and adults within a noncategorical performance-based model. This paper describes the program's competency clusters in such areas as applied behavior analysis, behavioral assessment,…

The University of Oregon model teacher preparation program, called the Handicapped Learner Endorsement program, prepares teachers to work with students with mild handicaps and emphasizes direct instruction. This paper describes the program's core components and the procedures used to teach them, with specific emphasis on the supervisor's role in…

This paper describes components of the Teacher Support System, an approach to providing behavioral counseling support to teachers with students having severe problem behaviors. Personnel and procedural components are described, along with descriptive and outcome information from case studies of students who have received support from the system.…