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Handbook of Research on Classroom Diversity and Inclusive Education Practice (Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design)
Christina M. Curran and Amy J. Petersen
As classrooms are becoming more diverse, teachers are now faced with the responsibility of creating an inclusive classroom community. As such, researching classroom pedagogies and practices is an imperative step in curriculum planning. Diversity and Inclusive Education Practice is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on ways to effectively teach all students and further refine and strengthen school-wide inclusive pedagogy, methods, and policies. Featuring extensive coverage on a number of topics such as special education, online learning, and English language learners, this publication is ideally designed for professionals, educators, and policy makers seeking current research on methods that ensure all students have equal access to curricular content and the chance for growth and success. -- Provided by publisher
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Improving Teacher Quality: Using the Teacher Work Sample to Make Evidence-Based Decisions
Frank Kohler, John Henning, Victoria Robinson, and Barry Wilson
The teacher work sample (T.W.S.) has become increasingly widely adopted as an end-of-program, performance-based assessment for student teachers. Improving Teacher Quality offers a comprehensive introduction to teacher work sample methodology for teacher educators, student teachers, student teacher supervisors, cooperating teachers, program coordinators, and school administrators. This well-organized and clearly written guide shows how implementation of the T.W.S. can catalyze a series of widespread changes in assessment, teaching, and program improvement. The authors use their extensive experience to describe how to implement the T.W.S. in a carefully sequenced progression that includes creating a valid and reliable system of scoring, teaching reflective thinking skills, making program improvements, and conducting research with T.W.S. data. Helpful suggestions are provided throughout for those interested in adopting the T.W.S. as a performance-based assessment in their teacher education program, those interested in how the T.W.S. can provide evidence of minimal competency, and those interested in how the T.W.S. can provide data for making program improvements. -- Provided by publisher
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Seeing All Kids as Readers: A New Vision for Literacy in the Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom
Christopher Kliewer
For young children with moderate to severe disabilities, developing literacy skills can lead to more active and fulfilling membership in society. This motivating, forward-thinking book will help educators see all their students as literate and use an innovative social model of literacy to enrich the skills of children with and without disabilities. Relating in-depth stories from hundreds of hours spent observing inclusive preschool classrooms, literacy researcher Christopher Kliewer inspires readers to view literacy as more than direct interaction with alphabetic text use dynamic, imaginative methods—dramatic play, drawing, painting, dance, movement—to help students with disabilities acquire useful literacy skills encourage students with and without disabilities to collaborate on literacy-building activities throughout the day incorporate the interests, imaginations, and histories of students with disabilities in classroom routines and lessons Special and general educators will discover how this bold new vision of literacy and inclusion will benefit all their students, and they'll use the vivid examples as models in their own classrooms. A passionate, carefully researched call to action, this eye-opening book will help educators move beyond the labels and expectations often associated with disability, presume competence instead of limitation, and ensure that students with significant disabilities reach their full potential as literate citizens. -- Provided by publisher
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Student-directed learning
Martin Agran
This volume offers specific teaching strategies for helping students learn self-monitoring, self-evaluation, picture cues, self-instruction, problem solving and other student-directed learning strategies.--Publisher.
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Schooling Children with Down Syndrome: Toward an Understanding of Possibility
Christopher Kliewer
This volume explores Down syndrome disability in the cultural context of the school. The author traces the history of community banishment on people with Down syndrome. Based on fieldwork, and using examples, the author describes school contexts currently resisting traditions of segregation. -- Provided by publisher
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Inclusion: A Guide for Educators
Susan Bray Stainback
This practical resource explains how to make inclusion work, providing practicing and prospective educators with the tools and techniques they need to transform classrooms into places where all students have the opportunity to succeed. Highly regarded experts address topics including basic strategies, professional and student collaboration, curriculum adaptation, and behavioral challenges. -- Provided by publisher
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Controversial Issues Confronting Special Education: Divergent Perspectives
William Stainback and Susan Stainback
The book draws together, in one source, divergent perspectives on critical issues or questions confronting the field of special education. Each issue is addressed in a pro/con format. -- Provided by publisher
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Curriculum Considerations in Inclusive Classrooms: Facilitating Learning for All Students
Susan Stainback and William Stainback
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Controversial Issues Confronting Special Education: Divergent Perspectives
William Stainback and Susan Stainback
The book draws together, in one source, divergent perspectives on critical issues or questions confronting the field of special education. Each issue is addressed in a pro/con format. -- Provided by publisher
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Support Networks for Inclusive Schooling: Interdependent Integrated Education
William Stainback and Susan Stainback
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Educating All Students in the Mainstream of Regular Education
Susan Stainback, William Stainback, and Marsha Forest
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How to Help Your Child Succeed in School
Susan Stainback and William Stainback
Tells how to motivate children, teach good study habits, handle behaviorial problems, and help children handle school-related stress--Provided by publisher
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Integration of Students With Severe Handicaps into Regular Schools
Susan Stainback and William Stainback
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The Severely Motorically Impaired Student: A Handbook for the Classroom Teacher
Harriet Healy and Susan Stainback
The purpose of this handbook is to assist educators in developing a basic understanding and knowledge of these children being mainstreamed into their schools and classrooms. Hopefully this text will provide basic information and procedures that will enable educators to be more comfortable in working with the motorically handicapped. It should also provide programming strategies, techniques, and activities to enhance the academic, social, and physical needs of the motorically handicapped student. --Preface
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