SPECIAL EDUCATION IS EFFECTIVE EDUCATION

By Dr. Michael A. Williams

July 11, 1989

Effective education is the outcome of teaching/learning experiences having been specifically tailored, as far as practically possible, to the

abilities,

convenience,

disabilities,

goals, interests,

likes, and

needs of individual learners.

All learners are different.

Learning is always,

constant,

everywhere,

everything, and

now....

for everybody!

The effectiveness and efficiency of all teaching/learning

experiences rest on these truths.

Effective learning produces effective education.

Effective learning is the product of teaching/learning experiences that have been specially tailored, as much as possible to each learner's individual and personal specifications.

SPECIAL EDUCATION IS EFFECTIVE EDUCATION!

Effective education is always special.

The basic elements or truths identified for effective learning are universally applicable to all learners and circumstances of learning!

EFFECTIVE EDUCATION IS SPECIAL EDUCATION!

Special consideration and reasonable accommodation for the diversity in and varied needs of learners--EVERYBODY--are prerequisite to producing effective learning and providing for effective education.

EFFECTIVE EDUCATION IS (SHOULD BE) FOR EVERYBODY!

EVERYBODY!

Effective schools provide effective education for all learners by specializing and individualizing their teaching/learning experiences as much as possible.