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Here are three hyper linked content-area specific resources, which will help as great resources for teaching.
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This website is a portal to many great websites that can be accessed in order to help in a wide variety of content areas which will be very useful when teaching special education. When teaching special education there are going to be many content-areas taught. This will allow a "good teacher" to access multiple sources in order to teach in a variety of ways to a diversity of students. Students learn in very different ways and therefore need to be taught and given material in different ways in order to maximize learning.I believe it is the duty of a good teacher to take these different learning styles into account when teaching a lesson. It is also important that in order to be a good teacher you must research and be very informed on the topic which is being discussed. If a good teacher knows the content thoroughly then the teacher will be more effective at teaching the content in a fun and engaging way. Most students will develop competency in certain areas usually by repetition of tasks and practice. Although this is not a specific website to practice one content area, all content areas are addressed through links via this site. The link listed below is one example of the many websites, which can be reached through refseek.com.

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This is a link that is great for a variety of different aspects of teaching. It also has access to more specific sites such as the one below. This site is more specific about Asperger’s. It might have some great lessons or worksheets to download. A good special education teacher will research and learn a wide variety of disabilities which will help them gage the level of their students. This knowledge will help make them great teachers that truly understand the level of thinking that their students are at currently and where they need to go.<a href="http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/"></a>
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This website is a really great resource in the fact that it can be used for general education. There are different methods for delivery, and the site allows students to practice some basic cognitive skills, or it can be used in a more focused way to practice a certain content area. Each correct answer entered on the site makes a donation of 20 grains of rice. This site is great motivation for the students which you can initiate a conversation about a multitude of topics like community service, math, geography, or political science. Part of a good teacher is not only to teach the knowledge or content, but to make sure the students truly retain the information instead of just learning it for a test for example. A good teacher will know basic content which might be the starting block of more advanced thinking and learning.
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This website is a great resource for very basic information. It is some times difficult to find great information that contains not only the more advanced information, but the more simple information as well. It provides charts, graphs, and pictures that are especially good resources for initial lessons of learning the basics. It also has worksheets and diagrams that can be printed so that students can color and complete various tasks. These tasks and worksheets can be very important in practicing and really sending home the message and information being taught. Students must practice, practice, and practice. This resource is also important when it comes to special education to be able to have a wide variety of lesson in which the teacher can print and have visual assignments for the diverse students. Visual aids are always an asset when it comes to teaching. To be a good teacher it is important to make lessons as diversified as possible. If you teach a lesson and incorporate various methods of learning for example a powerpoint, hands on activity, and also a lecture you are more likely to get the most students actively involved and learning. This makes the lesson more appealing to those that learn better by visual, auditory, and also hands on. In order for student to be more competent they may need one or all of these various types of learning used during a lesson.