My PLE will focus on sharing thoughts, commentary, practices and new strategies/research in supporting special education students in the general education classroom, as well as preparing students for high-stakes assessments. My hope is to collect information that addresses students with high incidence disabilities (e.g. – learning, behavioral and emotional disabilities, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia or dyscalculia). The purpose of this PLE is to provide a way to consolidate the variety and multitude of resources and information circulating the web on supporting students with special needs in regular classroom settings. The resources I intend to collect and present will be blogs, podcasts, online videos (YouTube), and other web instructional commentary boards. My PLE will address the problems I have encoutnered as I have scoured the web looking for information and resources to assist me in developing instructional materials and mehtods to use in small instructional groups, as well as in the large classroom. I have found it incredibly difficult to maintain and continually return to specific websites to check on recent updates and user commentary because there are just so many for me to weed through during my personal time. My learning goals are to be able to reflect upon and dedicate time to acquiring and creating a space where various ideologies and practices can be presented for any educator to access and utilize in their professional practice or personal development. I want my SSLE environment to be more organized and designed in a manner that connects research, practice and theory.
My PLE will be modled after another educator’s wiki sped.wikidot.com The Special Education Wiki Site. I like the overall presentation and user friendliness of this site.