Education; Teaching Guides

The guide is intended to provide an orientation to the individualized, performance based special teacher preparation curriculum at Florida State University. The aim of the curriculum is given to be preparation of teachers to serve in public school resource centers by identifying needs of, providing individualized instruction for, and monitoring performance of mildly handicapped educable mentally retarded, learning disabled, and emotionally disturbed students. It is said that "clinical teaching" (individualizing of instruction) is an historical aspiration for implementing the fundamental philosphy of the right to an education of all children. Dilemmas of special educators during the past twenty years are reviewed in terms of exceptioLal children, available manpower, provisions and services, clinical teaching, and judicial decisions. Alternative strategies for solving the dilemmas are give