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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 369 587 RC 019 557 AUTHOR Montgomery, Diane, Ed. TITLE Rural Pa:tnerships: Working Together. Proceedings cf the Annual National Conference of the American Council on Rural Special Education (ACRES)(14th, Austin, Texas, March 23-26, 1994). INSTITUTION American Council on Rural Special Educat:i.on. PUB DATE Mar 94 NOTE 477p.; For selected individual papers, see RC 019 558-608. For the 1993 proceedings, see ED 358 980. PUB TYPE Collected Works Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MFOI/PC20 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Cooperative Programs; Delivery Systems; Disabilities; *Educational Cooperation; Education Work Relationship; Elementary Secondary Education; Family School Relationship; Higher Education; *High Risk Students; *Mainstreaming; Regular and Special Education Relationship; Rural Areas; *Rural Education; School Community Relationship; *Special Education; *Teacher Education; Transitional Programs ABSTRACT This proceedings contains 60 conference papers that address critical issues related to rural education, special education, teacher training, school reform, and services for students who are at risk. The conference theme of rural partnerships recognizes the diversity of the ACRES membership and the need for developing and maintaining successful working relationships among rural professionals, community agencies, and families. Topics include management and leadership models that encompass female executives, academic alliances, rural teacher induction, rural inservice training using distance technologies or a career ladder approach, rural transdisciplinary team training, child care for young disabled children, preparing general educators for inclusion, training special education teachers to use telecommunications, read aloud programs and parent participation, intergenerational entrepreneurship, deaf education using interactive television, teacher study groups, gifted education in rural areas, rural collaboration on a transition task force, fetal alcohol syndrome in rural classrooms, alternative certification in special education, portfolio assessment in teacher education, student behavior in rural mainstreamed settings, leisure activities for mentally retarded adults, parental aspirations for learning disabled students, rural teachers' beliefs about inclusion, itinerant-model service delivery in rural settings, transitional programs, meeting the needs of medically fragile students, dropout prevention, teacher collaboration, rural school-community partnerships for tranSition, creativity training, negotiated program evaluation, administrator training, migrant education, parent participation along the Mexican border, rural parent and staff development, grief counseling, collaborative consultation, college as a transition option, total quality learning in rural settings, adaptive and assistive technology, and potential outcomes for special education. A topical index broadly categorizes papers into the following areas: administration, at-risk students, collauorative education models, early childhood, gifted, low incidence populations, parents and families, preservice and inservice teacher training, technology, and transition. (SV) The American Council on Rural SpecialEducation ACRES Fourteenth Annual National Conference Austin, Texas March 23 - 26, 1994 RURAL PARTNERSHIPS: WORKING TOGETHER CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Rural educators, preservice educators, administrators,special educators, related service providers, policymakers, and parentsaddress critical issues related to rural education, special education, teacher training, schoolreform, and services for students who are at-risk. -PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL FIAS BEEN GRANTED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office ol Educational Research and Improvement pa EDU/CATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Siihis document has been reproduced as e,r received from the person or organization originating it Minot changes have been made to improve TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES reproduction quality INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." Diane Montgomery, Editor e Points of view Or opinions stated in this doci meet do not necessarily represent of ficial Oklahoma State University OE Ri positron or policy 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Table of Contents Introduction Wekome to the 14th Annual Conference of the AmericanCouncil of Rural Special Education (ACRES)RURAL PARTNERSHIPS: WORKING TOGETHER! Diane Montgomery and Kay S. Bull, ACRES ProgramCommittee, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK vi Wednesday Hot Topics Needed: A Theory Including Women Executives in theRural Culture Genevieve Brown and Beverly J. Irby, Sam Houston StateUniversity, Huntsville, TX 1 Academic Alliances, You Can Do It Too Robert C. Steinmiller and Georgine G. Steinmiller,Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR 4 Teacher Induction in Rural and Small School Districts June C. Lemke, University of Redlands, Redlands,CA 10 Thursday A Partnership in Training: A Distance Learning Approach toIn-Service Training in Rural Settings Dennis Knapczyk, Paul Rodes, Teri Marche', and CarrieChapman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 16 Career Ladder Approach to Training for CommunityFacilities Personnel and Paraeducators in the State of North Dakota Demetrios Vassiliou and Dave Johnson, North DakotaCenter for Disabilities (NDCD), Minot State University, Minot, ND 24 The Dream Team! A Multi-Level Curriculumfor Developing a Rural Transdisciplinary Team Training Model Robert E. Gerke, New Mexico State University, LasCruces, NM 34 Child Care for Young Children with Disabilities Robert L. Morgan and Kim Madsen, Chadron StateCollege, Chadron, NE 45 The Individualized Education Program Meeting:A Study of Need for Transdisciplinary Team Training Sharon Miles, New Mexico State University,Las Cruces, NM 53 3 Are Preservice General Educators Being Adequately Pi ...Taredfor Inclusion? Jacy Mayhew, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 58 Reaching Out to the World: Training Teachers to IntegrateTelecommunications into Special Education Ckissr000ms Judy Werner, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 68 An Overview of Gifted Educaiton Via Correspondence to PreserviceTeachers in Rural Areas Luise B. Savage, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 75 A Read Aloud Program That Encourages Parent Paniapation inSchools Laura A. Reissner, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 81 Intergenerational Entrepreneurship in an Educational Setting Melissa Owen and Paul Wright, The Strom Thurmond Institute, ClemsonUniversity 88 Deaf Education Using Interactive Television Barbara Luetke-Stahlman, Unviersity of Kansas Medical Center, KS 96 A Comparison of Traditional and Distance Education Models Barbara L. Ludlow, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 114 Teacher Study Groups as a Means of Rural Professional Development Mary Susan E. Fishbaugh and Tony Hecimovic, Eastern MontanaCollege, MT 122 Potpourri of Resources to Tap Gifted Educaiton in Rural Areas Luise Savage and Judy Werner, West Virginia University, Morgantown,WV 127 Rural Partnerships: Collaboration Through a Transition Task-Force Diane Worrell-Clayton, Missouri LINC, University of Missouri-Columbia,MO 133 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE): Implicationsfor Rural Classrooms Rosalie Schenck, Jack Cole and Catherine Medina, New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces, NM 136 Alternative Certification in Special Education: A QualitativeStudy of Two Models Barbara L. Ludlow and Wilfred D. Wienke, West Virginia University,Morgantown, WV ... 152 Portfolio Assessment in Teacher Education: A Comparison ofGeneral and Special Education Administrator and Teacher Perspectives Kay S. Bull, Diane Montgomery and Laura Coombs,Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; Joan Sebastian, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; andRuth Fletcher, New Mexico State Unviersity, Las Cruces, NM 160 ii 4 Classroom Behaviors of Students in Rural Mainstreamed Settings:A Comparison of Students with Disabilities and Their Normative Peers Gretchen Butera, Gia Deasy, Kevin J. Miller, Laura Reissner,Carl Stein, Mary Ellen Zeppuhar and Beverly Bieniek, West Virginia University, Morgantown,WV 170 A Comparison of Leisure and Recreational Activities forAdults With and Without Mental Retardation James E. Whorton, University of Southern Mississippi; RobertL. Morgan, Chadron State College and Seal Nisbet, University of Southern Mississippi,MS 178 Grade Retention mid Parental Aspirations for Students withLearning Disabilities Gail Bornfield, Minot State University, Minot, ND 186 Work Place Influences on Rural Teacher's Beliefs About IncreasedIntegration Marta A. Roth, Ohio University, Athens, OH and Bev Dudas,Morgan High School, McConnelsville, OH 194 Variables Affecting Itinerant Model Service Delivery in Rural Settings Camille McQuivey and Nadine Thorson, University of Utah, SaltLake City, UT 197 The New Challenge: A Relevant Program for the Disadvantaged Mary Jean Goertz, University of Texas Pan American,Edinburg, TX and Linda Phemister, McAllen Independent School District, McAllen, TX 205 Partners for Transition: Preparing Students for the Future Sonya C. Carr and Ellen Ratcliff, Southeastern LouisianaUniversity, Hammond, LA 210 Preparing Special Educators for Work in Rural Areas: TwoField-Based Programs That Work Sam Minner and Greg Prater, Northern Arizona University,Flagstaff, AZ 218 Developing Medical and Educational Partnerships in SchoolSettings to Meet Health-Related and Educational Needs of Students Who Are Medically Fragile:How Can Rural Schools Catch that Elusive Rainbow? Cheryl R. Bartlett,