Integrating Technology and Media into Regular Classrooms To Facilitate Inclusion: Preservice/Inservice Training of Rural Educators.

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Project FIRST (Field-Based Integrated Regular and Special Teacher Training) is an Oklahoma program that funds teacher training on the use of technology and media to adapt instruction for disabled students in the regular classroom. The program provided inservice training to regular teachers in rural Oklahoma school districts and preservice training to undergraduates working toward certification in special education. Participants developed knowledge and skills in using technology and media to modify classroom organization, student response variables, instructional delivery, materials, curriculum, and assessment for students with disabilities. Activities and projects were completed collaboratively by district teams consisting of a regular educator, a special education preservice teacher paired with the regular teacher for a year, and a university faculty member certified in special education. Each team was loaned technology and media hardware and software for classroom use for 1 year. Dev

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