Education is a salient tool and a process that begins in childhood, continues into adulthood, and is meant to be an impactful experience to all, no matter the student and their disability. Students with disabilities in special education undergo struggles, such as negative stigma, high rates of suspensions/expulsions, racial disparities, poor academic performance, and low levels of self-esteem. Therefore, these struggles have a negative impact on their overall levels of self-esteem, self-concept, ASC, and student success rate. The problem with teaching in the field of special education is a lack of modern or active teaching styles and techniques to stimulate and maintain motivation and enhance students' self-concept (e.g., ASC), self-esteem, and overall success. The purpose of this literature review is to review modern and active teaching styles, explore how these teaching styles may be linked with self-esteem, and ASC and success rate, and provide guidelines for how to adapt these teaching styles to the special education environment. This literature review will help fill the gaps between adapting reformed teaching styles and improving students' overall self-concept. The results will indicate that using more modern and active teaching styles, such as the domains and clusters from FFT, can help sustain students' attention, motivation, and engagement in the classroom setting. Therefore, using more evidence-based and modern teaching styles can help enhance academic performance and overall self-concept amongst students. The implications of this study relate to individualizing lesson plans and tailoring teaching and delivery techniques to continuously engage students via more modern teaching styles and improve on healthy teacher-student relationships. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]