IDEA 2004 takes a stand against significant disproportionality of students in particular racial or ethnic groups in special education. Module 5 explains what states, districts, and schools must now do to address the disproportionate representation.
Module 5 is available in English only (except for its handouts), as you'll see below. It includes:
- a slideshow presentation;
- a Trainer's Guide; and
- handouts for participants.
Please do help yourself below, and download the components you need to learn on your own and/or to train others in how IDEA is currently addressing the disproportionality and overrepresentation of certain racial or ethnic groups in special education.
Component #1: The Slideshow
Use these 22 slides in vivid colors (and English only) to train audiences about IDEA's new requirements regarding disproportionality. (ZIP folder)
www.nichcy.org/Laws/IDEA/Documents/
Training_Curriculum/5slideshow.zip
Component #2: Trainer's Guide
The Trainer's Guide illustrates how each slide operates and provides detailed discussion of the content on each slide. (The complete guide is a rather large file: 52 pages, 1.5 MB. If you have a slow Internet connection, on our "slower connection page," we offer the complete Trainer's Guide broken into 2 parts for easier reading online or downloading.)
Accessible Word file | Complete Trainer's Guide
www.nichcy.org/Laws/IDEA/Documents/Training_Curriculum/5-discussion.doc
Component #3: Handouts for Participants
Module 5 falls under Theme B, IDEA and General Education, for which handouts in English and Spanish are available. If you previously downloaded the handouts for Theme B, you already have what you need for Module 5 (provided you're still working in the same language!) and don't need to download the handouts again.
If you do need to download the handouts for Theme B, here they are in two different formats and two different languages:
English Handouts, Theme B
Spanish Handouts, Theme B
Note about the Spanish Translations:
In preparing the handouts in Spanish, NICHCY has chosen to use a certain vocabulary set for the terminology most frequently used in IDEA. IDEA itself is extremely and purposefully consistent about its terminology, and we felt it critical to do the same in Spanish. However, we fully recognize that there are many ways to say the same thing, and Spanish is rich with alternatives from country to country, region to region. So we've also prepared a glossary of the terminology used in IDEA, how we've rendered that terminology in Spanish, and other ways of rendering it that families may also hear. Share this with participants as you see fit or use it to guide your own translations. The glossary of terminology is available in two formats, PDF and Word:
Component #4: Resources for Trainers
(optional, English only)
One resource for trainers is provided to accompany Module 5. Again, choose between downloading a PDF file or an accessible Word file (or both, if you like).
There! You're set to go with Module 5. Please remember that these materials are designed to be authoritative sources of information about disproportionality and overrepresentation. That's why they are so detailed. As a trainer, you are free to adapt these materials to fit the purposes and needs of your audience, and the amount of time you have to spend with them.
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