Enhancing quality: Listening to participant voices to improve our Master's program in special education

Shana J. Haines; Colby T. Kervick; Katharine G. Shepherd; Melanie J. Levitt

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 66, No. 1 (August 2017) pp. 24–32

Newly inducted special education teachers must be well-prepared to address changes in today's schools, including increased student diversity, implementation of tiered systems of support, and the need for increased collaboration with general...

Language: English

Improving Preservice Teachers' Knowledge and Application of Functional Behavioral Assessments Using Multimedia

Shanna Eisner Hirsch; Michael J. Kennedy; Shana J. Haines; Cathy Newman Thomas; Kat D. Alves

Behavioral Disorders Vol. 41, No. 1 (2015) pp. 38–50

Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) is an empirically supported intervention associated with decreasing problem behavior and increasing appropriate behavior. To date, few studies have examined multimedia approaches to FBA training. This paper...