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Teaching Special Students in General Education Classrooms (7th Edition)

Rena B. Lewis, Donald Doorlag

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For courses in Inclusion/Mainstreaming or Introduction to Special Education. This successful and comprehensive, categorically-organized methods-based text examines how to teach all students with varying abilities in the same classroom. The Seventh Edition of Teaching Special Students in General Education Classrooms is uncompromising in its dedication to prepare educators to effectively teach the range of students found in the typical elementary or secondary classroom. Using a case-based approach, the text provides information about four groups of students with special needs: students with disabilities, gifted and talented learners, culturally and linguistically diverse individuals, and students at risk for school failure. In addition, it demonstrates the vast resources we now have available through technology, and presents practical strategies for adapting standard instruction to meet the learning needs of all students in general education classrooms. Furthermore, the reauthorization of IDEA is included, emphasizing for readers why this law is important and how it impacts educators and professionals. As the practice of inclusion expands, the challenges for teachers increase. Teaching Students in General Education Classrooms, 7th Edition is everything a future teacher needs to know in order to work effectively and sensitively within increasingly diverse elementary and secondary classrooms.

Teaching Kids With Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Challenge and Motivate Struggling Students

Susan Winebrenner, Pamela Espeland

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Valuable resource for classroom teachers 5 out of 5 stars.
35 of 35 people found this review helpful.

As a classroom teacher who is trying to adapt multiple intelligences and learning styles into my lessons, I found Susan Winebrenner's book a valuable resource. She has many stategies for aiding children with learning disabilities as well as controlling inappropriate behavior in the classroom.

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From the relentless pressure to make sure that all students score at the proficient level on high-stakes tests, to the rigorous requirements of ?No Child Left Behind, ? teachers are being held more accountable than ever before?making this book more important than ever before. A gold mine of practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, it helps teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners?including those labeled ?slow, ? ?remedial, ? or ?LD, ? students of poverty, English language learners, and others who struggle to learn. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator. Includes reproducibles.

The Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Effective Instruction (3rd Edition)

Margo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs

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Written by highly respective researchers in the field, The Inclusive Classroom is a book that prepares readers to feel secure in their ability to instruct K-12 learners with disabilities and other special learning needs. General instruction and classroom management skills prevail throughout the book, enabling readers to construct instructional strategies through which they will find success. Comprehensive in scope and coverage, users will be interested in reading about the following topics: inclusive teaching; collaboration; students with higher-incidence disabilities; students with lower-level disabilities; students with other special learning needs; effective instruction for all students; improving classroom behavior and social skills; motivation and affect; improving attention and memory; teaching study skills; content area teaching, including art, music, physical education, foreign languages, vocational education, and transitions. Obviously a book for educators and future educators, this resource can be a valuable read for parents of children with special needs, as well as those in the educational arena that plan curricula for those children.

The Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom: Easy Ways to Adapt Learning Centers for All Children

Patti Gould, Joyce Sullivan

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Outstanding resource for prechool therapists and teachers 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book is a gem--just perfect for occupational therapists, parents or anyone working with special needs preschoolers. The book is organized by various diagnoses as well as specific learning situations found in most preschools-circle time, snack, various centers, etc. The numerous classroom adaptations suggested are outstanding. I work in Head Start preschools where the teachers have limited experience and training with special needs kids. I can't tell you how helpful this book has been.

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All children require nurturing and stimulating learning environments, but typical early childhood classrooms should be modified for children with special needs. The Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom is written to help teachers look at classroom design in a new way and suggests different ways of approaching activities to help children with special needs become successful. By modifying the classroom and activities, all children will be actively engaged. Each chapter focuses on either a learning center, such as art or science, or a time of the day, such as snack time or dismissal, with particular attention to the needs of children who are developmentally delayed, orthopedically impaired, have autism/Pervasive Development Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, behavioral issues, motor planning problems, or visual impairments.

Widening the Circle: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms

Mara Sapon-Shevin

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The Power of Inclusive Classrooms is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as "disabled" and "special needs," are welcome on equal terms.

In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed "ready to compete" in "mainstream" classes, Mara Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills but with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support. Full inclusion requires teachers to think about all aspects of their classroom—pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom climate.

Crucially, Sapon-Shevin takes on arguments against full inclusion in a section of straight-talking answers to common questions. She agrees with critics that the rhetoric of inclusion has been used to justify eliminating services and "dumping" students with significant educational needs unceremoniously back into the mainstream with little or no support. If full inclusion is properly implemented, however, she argues, it not only clearly benefits those traditionally excluded but enhances the educations and lives of those considered mainstream in myriad ways.

Through storytelling and argument, Sapon-Shevin lays out the moral and educational case for schools that do not separate kids on the basis of difference.

"Widening the Circle is an ambitious, impassioned argument for inclusive schools powered by a vision that goes far beyond the mutilated version of 'mainstreaming' common in American schools today. To Sapon-Shevin the current state of affairs is a caricature of inclusive education, reductive and impoverished, a place where every student is defined by a putative deficit, imprisoned in a label. Her goal — breathtaking in its sweep — is to break through the walls of the prison, and to set us all free. She shows us that huge questions of democracy and freedom can be discovered in a simple game of musical chairs, that our deepest values are enacted in our everyday classroom practice. A dazzling manifesto and call to arms."
—William Ayers, author of Teaching toward Freedom and To Teach

"Widening the Circle is packed with sharply observed challenges to conventional ways of thinking. It digs beneath classroom strategies to find larger truths about difference, exposing the moral implications of segregation in the process. One by one, Sapon-Shevin skewers the philosophical and practical objections to inclusion. Her book should be read by all educators, not just those in the field of special education."
—Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve and What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

"I love the spirit that infuses the book and the constant reference to the connection between school values and larger democratic values, as well as its attention to the nitty-gritty of classroom life. A book both practical and thoughtful."
—Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas

"With a profound vision and a gift for storytelling, Sapon-Shevin leads educators to think of social justice in terms of classrooms that are truly inclusive, and in the process, challenges and broadens the very ways that we think about inclusion: of whom, in what ways, for what purposes. Essential reading for all educators."
—Kevin K. Kumashiro, Director, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education

"This book is well-researched, well-argued, and well-written, with a passionate voice that supplements its views with personal anecdotes that make the book a compelling and enjoyable read." —Teacher Magazine

"There's a disarming, almost folksy quality to this easy to read book, and you find yourself getting stirred up by the common sense logic of how inclusion presents an opportunity to students without disabilities to get to know, support, and share experiences that will benefit them throughout their lives . . . We need more books like this one." —Teachers College Record

Choosing Outcomes and Accommodations for Children (COACH): A Guide to Educational Planning for Students with Disabilities, Second Edition

Michael F. Giangreco, Chigee J., Ph.D. Cloninger, Virginia Salce Iverson

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Helpful for educators AND parents 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

As a parent of a 3 year old with Down syndrome, I found this book extremely helpful as Andrew moves toward inclusion in a private school. It is helpful for parents to become aware of inclusion issues and processes for their children's sake. This book provides a helpful understanding of inclusion and is readable for non-educators as well as professional teaching staff. COACH encourages teamwork of family and educators to best create appropriate, meaningful and beneficial IEP plans. I gave my copy to the principal of my son's school and she immediately asked me for the publisher's catalog so she could order a copy and implement COACH processes with other families affected by disabilities as well.

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Substantially revised in response to research and consumer feedback, the second edition of this flexible planning tool is more user-friendly, family oriented, and focused on life outcomes such as social relationships and participation in typical home, school, and community activities.

This updated format makes COACH easier to use; it features redesigned forms; more detailed explanations; explicit instructions on "purpose," "directions," "materials needed," and "helpful hints" for each step; and tabs and icons that make information easy to find. Using the established and field-tested methods of COACH, special and general educators, related services providers, and school administrators can collaborate with families and work toward developing a meaningful IEP for each student.

Successful Inclusive Teaching: Proven Ways to Detect and Correct Special Needs (4th Edition)

Joyce S. Choate

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This book addresses the learning and behavior needs of special students and the teaching needs of those who teach them. It can be used in several settings, as a basic compendium for inclusive education courses, a handbook for field experiences, and a resource guide for inservice teachers, all of which increase the achievement of learners with diverse needs in both general and special education classrooms. This is a book that is comprehensive but deliberately concise so that the reader can quickly translate the theories of effective teaching and special education into practical inclusive classroom strategies. It includes the detection of 101 special needs and more than 1,000 corrective strategies. For readers with an interest in inclusive classroom strategies for special students.

Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings, Fourth Edition

Tom E.C. Smith, Edward A. Polloway, James R. Patton, Carol A. Dowdy

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Great book for new teachers!!! 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great book for any new teacher who needs to learn about the special education realm. It has great info. on the various laws and various techniquest to assist the special needs student.

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The Third Edition features enhanced coverage of the 1997 Reauthorization of IDEA, professional collaboration, and the legal rights and responsibilities of exceptional students and their teachers. The book continues to offer extensive practical suggestions for classroom teachers, including attention to cultural and linguistic diversity and fostering social acceptance, in addition to an overview of the different types of exceptionalities that teachers find in their classrooms. Features on technology, legal rights, diversity, and teaching ideas are included throughout the book. More emphasis on collaboration among general and special educators has been added to this edition, along with information on new requirements from the 1997 reauthorization of IDEA, including statewide assessments and IEP teams. For special education teachers.

Including Students With Severe and Multiple Disabilities in Typical Classrooms: Practical Strategies for Teachers

June Downing

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A great addition to any teacher's resource library! 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Dr. Downing does a wonderful job in this book of offering
teachers practical information. She has a section devoted to
each stage of education from preschool to high school & within
each section offers specific tips on how to modify both the
environment & the curriculum. She also addresses common
concerns such as dealing with disruptive behavior & a lack of
adequate planning time or support staff resources.
A great addition to any teacher's resource library!

Editorial Review:

Now in its second edition, this best-selling resource gives educators all the latest wisdom on including students with both sensory impairments and cognitive and physical disabilities. Packed with practical information and ideas, the updated edition features a new chapter on assessment, information on IDEA 1997 and new regulations, strategies like block scheduling and service learning, separate chapters on middle and high school, and coverage of today's hot topics, including literacy in all its forms. Educators will learn about compatible teaching methods for students with and without disabilities, the roles of peers and adults in the inclusion process, and how to adapt curricula and instructional techniques for students having significant challenges.

Choosing Options and Accommodations for Children: A Guide to Planning Inclusive Education

Michael F. Giangreco, Chigee J. Cloninger, Virginia Salce Iverson

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