This paper proposes recommendations for the training of teachers for the 21st century based on a Newton (Iowa) project to improve and broaden the skills of secondary education teachers for working with special needs students in regular classrooms. The paper calls for a practical and positive approach to defining disabilities, to summing up the rationale and the laws governing delivery of the services, and to presenting effective instructional strategies. Teacher training, it argues, must commence with the capturing of the students' attention by involving them in how it feels to be handicapped. This should be followed by the presentation of a practical text that can serve as a guide not only during preparation but also on into the actual teaching career. Simultaneously students must get into quality classrooms for observations and hands-on experience, and they must thoroughly research current issues. Finally, the paper suggests, technology will play a key role in quality college training to produce confident and competent teachers who will be part of the effort resulting in a minimum of discipline problems in the classroom and the education of all students to their maximum potential. (Contains 16 references.) (JB)