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The Virginia Department of Education’s (VDOE) Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) at Virginia Commonwealth University offers a variety of services tailored to assist personnel in schools, interagency coordinating councils and state-operated programs in Superintendent’s Regions 1 and 8. The VDOE T/TAC is a part of the statewide network of T/TACs across Virginia and a participating member of the online community T/TACOnline. The VDOE T/TAC at VCU is also a part of the Partnership for People with Disabilities, a member of the national University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Read More
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T/TAC Lending Library Now Open on Tuesdays until 6 PM! Need to return an item? Want to browse Assistive Technology Devices? Looking for new Instructional Strategies for Math or Literacy? Need to make a few visuals for your classroom? Stop by our office at 10 E Franklin Street any Tuesday until 6pm and we will be glad to help.
Virginia Family Special Education Connection Website Launches! The Virginia Department of Education has funded the Virginia Family Special Education Connection Website to provide families with critical and practical information regarding special education services in Virginia. The web site aims to provide a one-stop for community, educational, family life and legislative resources to support families and caregivers as their children progress through school with special education services and transition into adulthood. Visit the website at: http://vafamilysped.org
Register Now! Creating Connections to Shining Stars: Virginia's Collaborative Early Childhood Birth through Five Conference, July 22-24, 2013, The Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, VA. Creating Connections to Shining Stars is a collaborative effort between many state agencies and early childhood programs in Virginia. The conference will focus on promoting and supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices in inclusive settings for young children, both with and without disabilities. For more information and to register. Event flyer.
New materials added to our library!
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What You Need to Know About Motivation and Teaching Games This book describes the philosophical underpinnings of various methods for teaching learners with social delays, including learners with autism, to enjoy playing games. For each game, the author describes why the game is valuable, prerequisites for the game, instructional protocols for the game, variations of the game and data collection for each game. An emphasis is placed on teacher responsiveness to student performance. Teachers will learn how to help their students actually enjoy playing games. |
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The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook
This book describes Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT). PRT is one of the evidence based practices for children with ASD. This concise book provides professionals and parents the basics of implementing PRT and gives examples of what it looks like in practice. |
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What School Counselors Need to Know The purpose of this book is to bring together information, suggestions, forms, and resources so that school counselors can strive to meet the needs of general and special education students and staff in schools. |
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Classroom Assessment Scoring System Manual K-3, Dimensions Guide, and Dimensions Overview The CLASS is an observation instrument developed to assess classroom quality in preschool through third-grade classrooms. This K-3 manual provides information on the theoretical and empirical foundations of the CLASS, an overview of the procedures for using the CLASS and detailed descriptions and examples for each dimension as observed in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms. |
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