DOCUMENT RRSUME BD 090 725 BC 061 767 AUTHOR Thiagarajan, Sivasailam; And Others TITLE Instructional Development for Training Teachers of Exceptional Children: A Sourcebook. INSTITUTION Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Center for Innovation in Teaching the Handicapped. SPONS AGENCY National Center for Improvement of Educational Systems (DHEW/OB), Washington, D. C. PUB DATE m4 GRANT OEG-0-9- 33600 5~ 2452 (725) NOTE 192p. AVAILABLE PROM Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091 (Single Copy, $5.50) BDRS PRICE HP-$0.75 HC-$9.00 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS Course Objectives; *Exceptional Child Rducation; Handicapped Children; *fnstructional Materials; Material Development; Performance Based ‘teacher Education; Task Analysis; *Teacher Developed Materials; *Teacher Education; *Teacher Bducators ABSTRACT Presented in the sourcebook for the teacher educator is the Pour-D model (define, design, develop, and disseminate) to be used for developing instructional materials for training teachers of exceptional children. Listed at the beginning of chapters are instructional objectives; included when appropriate are guidelines, checklists, and flow charts. Given for use of the book are instructions such as reading chapter 1 for an overtiev, choosing a topic, and checking chapter objectives for essuntialness to task accomplishuent. Noted in the introduction are the transition in special education that requires teachers to demonstrate competency, the efficacy and validity of special training programs, and the role of the Four-D model. The stage categorized as "define" is described to be analytical and to involve five steps: front-end analysis (problems facing the teacher trainer), learner analysis, task analysis, concept aualysis, and the specifying of instructional objectives. The next stago is seen to involve the design of prototype instructional material and to comprise four steps: construction of criterion referenced tests, nedia selection, format selection, and initial design for presentation of instruction through media such as tests, textbooks, audiotutorial’ models, and computer assisted instruction, The developmental stage is said to comprise modification of the prototype material through expert appraisal and developmental testing. Described for the final stage (disseminate) ere summative evaluation, final packaging activities such as securing copyright releases, and diffusion. (MC)HECOSCVIe TF ED 090725 Instructional development for training teachers ‘of exceptional children A sourcebook