Books
Below are just a few of the books available from Cornette Library that are relevant to this class. If you don't find what you need here, do a more extensive search of the library catalog.
10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom by ISBN: 9781483339160Publication Date: 2014-03-17eBook
Your blueprint for building structure, consistency, and accountability year-round! Often teachers of all experience levels struggle to effectively manage special education classrooms. In this must-have guide, Rohrer and Sampson provide a solid, workable action plan to ensure measurable success for even your most challenging student. Discover a variety of research-based instructional strategies to: Support all students, including those with autism and severe learning disabilities Organize your classroom, materials, and staff and student schedules for optimal teaching and learning Execute well-planned standards-based lessons, annual IEP's, PLAALP's, behavioral interventions, and visual supports Develop communication and social skills within a language-rich environment Foster parent communication and staff collaboration Packed with real-world examples, free tools to use and share, a list of resources and a helpful glossary, this dynamic resource will inspire you, develop your teacher toolbox, and ensure your students are on the path to achievement! "10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom offers practical and easy-to-use ideas for organizing your physical classroom space, materials, student and staff schedules. Readers will also receive well thought out strategies that will definitely aid in the ultimate end result--student success!" --Avis Canty, Special Education Teacher Tanglewood Middle School, Greenville, SC "The path to success for students with autism and intellectual disabilities starts here, when their teachers implement the essential critical components outlined in this book." --Renee Bernhardt, Learning Support for Special Education and RTI Cherokee County School District, Canton, GA
Collaborating with Students in Instruction and Decision Making by ISBN: 9781412972178Publication Date: 2010-04-07eBook
Take advantage of a resource that's right in your classroom--your students!This book offers practical strategies for empowering students as co-teachers, decision makers, and advocates in the classroom. Ideal for K-12 general and special education teachers, this guide describes how to: Involve students in instruction through collaborative learning groups, co-teaching, and peer tutoring that foster self-discipline and responsible behavior Make students a part of decision making by utilizing personal learning plans, peer mediation, and more Use assessment tools, lesson plans, case studies, and checklists to put collaboration with students into practice
Effective Collaboration for Educating the Whole Child by ISBN: 9781412965279Publication Date: 2010-04-21eBook
"The authors eloquently capture the tasks and interconnections of school and community professionals who share the responsibility of developing healthy environments so that all children have the opportunity to learn."-Renee H. Lacey, Supervisor of Alternative and Summer ProgramsPrince William County Public Schools, VA"Finally, a practical look at how professionals from different disciplines can work together and blend their skills and talents to address the developmental needs of all students."-Robert N. Ianacone, Associate DeanGraduate School of Education and Human DevelopmentThe George Washington UniversityEducate the whole child by building a culture of collaboration in your school!It takes a team of professionals working together to support a child's emotional, physical, and academic development. Effective Collaboration for Educating the Whole Child examines collaboration between educators to successfully teach children with complex learning needs, both with and without identified disabilities.This book for K-12 general and special education teachers, administrators, and student support specialists explores how to make collaboration and coordination work, who takes responsibility for the process, and why collaboration is central to improving outcomes for students considered at risk. Focusing on coordinating across systems to improve education, the author:Discusses the roles, responsibilities, and relationships between school professionals, community agencies, and service providersOffers case examples in each chapter as windows into schools and classroomsEmphasizes important developmental transitions from the elementary years through high school and afterPresents personal reflections from parents, students, and professionals Developmentally responsive school environments depend on constructive relationships between the adults in a student's life, making this a vital resource for anyone who interacts with children.
Improving Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration by ISBN: 9781616512538Publication Date: 2011-08-30eBook
The 21st Century Coach attempts to bridge the gap between coursework and real work by focusing on real-world skills and applications. In order to thrive in the 21st century digital economy, students will need certain proficiencies within the context of rigorous academic standards. Each resource book focuses on one of the three categories listed in the Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Learning and Innovation Skills; Information, Media, and Technology Skills; Life and Career Skills. The reproducible activities and lessons in this three-book series will prepare students for success in the 21st century by giving them the skills and knowledge they will need as citizens, workers, and leaders after high school.
Powerful Practices for High-Performing Special Educators by ISBN: 1452214727Publication Date: 2010-01-01eBook
Designed for primary and secondary special educators, Powerful Practices for High-Performing Special Educators offers research-based and coordinated instructional strategies that help meet the academic needs of students with disabilities and provides specific examples and scenarios rooted in the realities of special education classrooms, self-contained programmes, or inclusive settings. Field-tested in both special education and general education classrooms with diverse populations, the strategies are effective with students who may not have strong literacy skills, whether they are in special or general education classrooms or are receiving instruction for English language learners (ELL). Every section of the book addresses specific concerns voiced by novice teachers and identified by research as influential in retaining special education teachers, and provides an overview of exemplary practices which promote successful outcomes for students on an Individualized Education Program. Chapter features include: - An overview and objectives - Strategies for professional practice - Quick history and research base - Connecting to diverse student populations - Examples from real-life experiences - Links to student achievement - Myth busters - Bibliography, websites, and professional organizations - Self-assessments - Reproducible forms located in an appendix.
Purposeful Co-Teaching by ISBN: 9781412964487Publication Date: 2008-10-23eBook
Today's teachers have a mandate to ensure success for each individual student and co-teaching is quickly becoming the best way to meet the challenge. Purposeful Co-Teaching helps primary through secondary school teachers experience the rewards of co-teaching through practical, research-based, and field-tested strategies that provide instructional support for all students in inclusive classrooms. The authors' model identifies the stages of co-teaching and emphasizes the components of interpersonal skills, content knowledge, instructional design, and teaching philosophy. Teachers will discover how to transition from a single teacher delivering the curriculum to an entire class to a teaching team providing individualized instruction in a diverse classroom. This resource is appropriate for educators who are teaching a variety of subjects and who have differing levels of experience in general and special education.
Transforming Urban Education by ISBN: 9462095639Publication Date: 2014-04-03eBook
This edited volume provides insights into research of places in which social life is enacted as if there were no research being undertaken. The research was intended to improve practice. Teachers and learners, as research participants, were primarily concerned with teaching and learning and, as a consequence, as we learned from research participants were made aware of what we learned--the purpose being to improve learning environments. Accordingly, research designs are contingent on what happens and emergent in that what we learned changed what happened and expanded possibilities to research and learn about transformation through heightening participants' awareness about possibilities for change and developing interventions to improve learning.
