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New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers

Standard Seven - Special Needs

Teachers shall adapt and modify instruction to accommodate the special learning needs of all students.

KNOWLEDGE Teachers know and understand:	DISPOSITIONS Teachers value and are committed to:	PERFORMANCES Teachers apply:
7.1 How to access information regarding applicable laws, rules, regulations and procedural safeguards regarding planning and implementing the individual education program; and 7.2 Available resources related to educational strategies to accommodate individual differences and to employ positive behavioral intervention techniques to students with special needs.	7.3 The belief that children and adolescents with special needs can learn at high levels and achieve success.	7.4 Apply knowledge of students’ abilities/disabilities, experiences, talents and prior learning, as well as language, culture, economics, family and community values to positively impact student learning; 7.5 Employ appropriate diagnostic measures and interpret the results to implement strategies that influence learning; 7.6 Participate in the design and implementation of the Individualized Education Program (IEP), where appropriate; 7.7 Meet the needs of all learners by using a wide range of teaching techniques to accommodate and modify strategies, services and resources, including technology; and 7.8 Make appropriate provisions, in terms of time and circumstances, for work, task assigned, communication and response modes, for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.

KNOWLEDGE
Teachers know and understand:

DISPOSITIONS
Teachers value and
are committed to:

PERFORMANCES
Teachers apply:

7.1 How to access information regarding applicable laws, rules, regulations and procedural safeguards regarding planning and implementing the individual education program; and

7.2 Available resources related to educational strategies to accommodate individual differences and to employ positive behavioral intervention techniques to students with special needs.

7.3 The belief that children and adolescents with special needs can learn at high levels and achieve success.

7.4 Apply knowledge of students’ abilities/disabilities, experiences, talents and prior learning, as well as language, culture, economics, family and community values to positively impact student learning;

7.5 Employ appropriate diagnostic measures and interpret the results to implement strategies that influence learning;

7.6 Participate in the design and implementation of the Individualized Education Program (IEP), where appropriate;

7.7 Meet the needs of all learners by using a wide range of teaching techniques to accommodate and modify strategies, services and resources, including technology; and

7.8 Make appropriate provisions, in terms of time and circumstances, for work, task assigned, communication and response modes, for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.