Learn The Best Strategies For Managing And Teaching In A Special Education Program! -- Contains more emphasis on collaboration, consultation, and co-teaching -- Provides updated information on technology, including software, multimedia, -- Integrates new coverage of classroom management to provide information onThis book was borne to reflect the increasing diversity in schools and the ever-changing challenges teachers face when attempting to teach students with learning or behavior problems.Readers will receive a wealth of information on how to manage a special education programs, and how to teach students with disabilities using different strategies and approaches. The book's purpose is to provide enough information to use the concepts provided in their practice. It introduces basic theories of teaching and learning and then cues the readers as to how the different theories are used in the instructional strategies presented.
Each chapter ended with useful examples for teachers and administrators to utilize. Beneficial for all special education teachers who work with students with high incidence disabilities.
Do not pick up this book expecting to read it from cover to cover. It was the assigned text for my Instructional Interventions for Students with Disabilities masters course. It makes a great reference guide and I plan to keep it on my shelf and will be pulling it out when needed when I get a teaching position.
Here is a summary of the contents of the book, listed by chapter. 1. Planning and Teaching for Understanding - this is a kind of intro to special education, including information in IEPs. I suggest Exceptional Lives if you want more in depth information on this. 2. Approaches to Learning and Teaching - information on applied behavior analysis, cognitive strategy instruction, sociocultural theory and schema theory. 3. Response to Intervention 4. Promoting Social Acceptance and Managing Behavior - information on management and functional behavior assessments 5. Coteaching and Collaborating: Working with Professionals and Families - a very good section of the book including different models of coteaching
The last chapters list different strategies for different areas of instruction 6. Assessing and Teaching Oral Language 7. Assessing and Teaching Reading: Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Word Recognition 8. Assessing and Teaching Reading: Fluency and Comprehension 9. Assessing and Teaching Writing and Spelling 10. Assessing and Teaching Content Area Learning and Vocabulary Instruction 11. Assessing and Teaching Mathematics
This is exactly what I've been wanting for so long! It is a very comprehensive, practical guide for teaching kids with learning problems. It includes a ton of solid strategies--all based on the conclusions of extensive research, fantastic lists of the best resources, frameworks for lesson plans, and all the pertinent information that any expert should know about breaking down and teaching reading and writing. I don't think there is a single page in mine that isn't highlighted or earmarked to copy.
This book has innovative and creative techniques for assisting individuals with disabilities. The language was sometimes heavy on terms which weren't clearly defined and heaving on acronyms which would make this book hard for some individuals to use. This book is limited in the teachers it could be beneficial for.
I've more skimmed through the pieces of this as I've needed them than read it in great detail, but it's got a lot of great strategies and information. I quite like it and I've used it for a resource more than once.