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10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom by ISBN: 9781483339160Publication Date: 2014-03-17eBook
This must-have guide provides special education teachers with a solid, workable action plan to manage the classroom and ensure student success. Learn instructional strategies to: Support all students with special needs, including those with more severe disabilities Organize your classroom, materials, and staff and student schedules Plan and assess standards-based lessons, annual IEP's, behavioral interventions, and more 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
Able, Gifted and Talented by ISBN: 0826451519Publication Date: 2005-03-15eBook - This well-written and highly informative guide provides teachers and trainees with practical strategies for teaching gifted and talented children. Containing advice on key areas such as successful identification, developing a whole school working policy, creating challenges in the classroom and involving parents, this book will prove essential reading for teachers everywhere.
Aiming High by ISBN: 9781412929387Publication Date: 2007-09-24eBook - This book contains tried-and-tested strategies for: - inducting asylum seekers - supporting bilingual learners - working with gypsy and traveller children - raising the attainment of black boys - working with parents and the local community Highly practical, this book contains lesson activities, suggestions for improving your teaching skills, case studies and activities for professional reflection.
Beyond Equality in the American Classroom by ISBN: 9780739177495Publication Date: 2013-07-18eBook - Beyond Equality in the American Classroom: The Case for Inclusive Education addresses the basis of inclusive education for students with exceptionalities from the perspective of social justice and scholarship-activism.
Connecting Teachers, Students, and Standards by ISBN: 9781416610243Publication Date: 2010-07-01eBook
Contemporary Issues in Special Educational Needs by ISBN: 9780335243631Publication Date: 2012-05-01eBook - To help education professionals make sense of the varied approaches, policies and concepts currently applied in practice with children and young people with SEN.
Creatively Gifted Students Are Not Like Other Gifted Students by ISBN: 9789462092341Publication Date: 2013-01-01eBook - This book focuses on the needs of creatively gifted students and how schools can meet those needs.
Curriculum Provision for the Gifted and Talented in the Secondary School by ISBN: 1134134142Publication Date: 2013-10-23eBook - The authors of this book offer practical help to teachers in making day-to-day provision for the able in their classroom. Designed mainly for secondary teachers, teacher educators and senior managers, the book draws together a range of good practice in provision for the most able across all national curriculum subjects.
Disproportionality in Education and Special Education by ISBN: 9780398088026Publication Date: 2012-07-01eBook
Diversity, Special Needs, and Inclusion in Early Years Education by ISBN: 9789351500292Publication Date: 2015-01-12eBook
Educating the Gifted and Talented by ISBN: 9781853468735Publication Date: 2002-08-16eBook
Following the publication of the House of Commons Education Select Committee Report in 1999, the Department of Education and Employment has set up a number of initiatives, including Excellence in Cities, to address the problematic issues relating to provision for gifted and talented pupils in primary and secondary schools. This book rehearses and develops further the central idea put forward by the authors in the first edition titled Educating Able Children that teachers remain the essential resource to ensure appropriate provision for gifted and talented pupils. They suggest ways in which teachers may become an effective and efficient resource; consider how teachers might take advantage of current initiatives to facilitate their own professional development; provide ideas at classroom, departmental and school level to facilitate appropriate provision, and include a comprehensive and up to date list of resources.
Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs by ISBN: 9781853469541Publication Date: 2003-06-20eBook
Gifted pupils who also have special needs often receive provision for the special need whilst the giftedness is overlooked. Children with such double exceptionality can become depressed, frustrated and misbehave, and may not fulfil their potential. Based on international research and practice, this practical text enables the reader to identify highly able pupils with special needs, such as ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and Downs Syndrome, and then make provision for them within the mainstream school. The book offers three emerging themes: creating a positive, constructive and supportive learning environment; offering a cognitively challenging curriculum; and engaging the learners in partnership to understand and manage their learning support. Whilst aimed mainly at teachers and students at both primary and secondary levels, this book should also be of interest to educators, researchers and educational psychologists.
Gifted and Talented Education from A-Z by ISBN: 1134022700Publication Date: 2014-07-10eBook -
This quick reference guide contains comprehensive listings and definitions of common terms in able, gifted and talented education, as well as other aspects that you might need to learn about, find or use - all in a teacher-friendly format.
Gifted and Talented Learners by ISBN: 9781853469558Publication Date: 2002-08-16eBook -
This book sets out the educational challenges, benefits and possibilities of embracing a truly inclusive approach to gifted and talented education and provides a framework for a school to create its own inclusive policy in this area of need.
Gifted Education by ISBN: 9781853469725Publication Date: 2003-02-14eBook
This second edition provides busy teachers, other educational professsionals and parents with user-friendly text and worksheets to enable them to identify and provide provision for The author takes a multi-dimensional view of ability and believes in educating the whole child, with a curriculum of opportunity that provides high-level learning experiences. The book has been updated in view of the developments in the education of gifted and talented children, with particular attention paid to strategies for differentiation, thinking skills and subject-specific enrichment. This book is a practical companion tot he author's popular The Challenge of the Able Child. By using many photocopiable worksheets and helpful checklists, and always bearing in mind the needs of the busy practitioner, this book will useful for anyone working in this area of education. Teachers, GATCOs, teaching assistants and parents should find the information clear and the suggested strategies rooted in good practice for teaching children of all abilities.
Giftedness and Talent in the 21st Century by ISBN: 9789463005012Publication Date: 2016-01-01eBook
The book provides some clarity by establishing a big-picture, interdisciplinary overview of the socioeconomic, cultural, and technological pressures emerging from 21st-century globalization and describing some ways in which those pressures simultaneously suppress, distort, and invigorate the discovery of aspirations and the development of talents.
Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education by ISBN: 9780309103671Publication Date: 2002-09-30This chapter in this eBook discusses the legal context and referral process for minority students in Special Education and Gifted and Talented programs.
Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education by ISBN: 9780309074391Publication Date: 2002-08-01eBook
Special education and gifted and talented programs were designed for children whose educational needs are not well met in regular classrooms. From their inceptions, these programs have had disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic minority students. What causes this disproportion? Is it a problem? Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education considers possible contributors to that disparity, including early biological and environmental influences and inequities in opportunities for preschool and K-12 education, as well as the possibilities of bias in the referral and assessment system that leads to placement in special programs. It examines the data on early childhood experience, on differences in educational opportunity, and on referral and placement.
Neurodiversity in the Classroom by ISBN: 9781416614838Publication Date: 2012-10-12Request via Interlibrary Loan
Special Education Transition Services for Students with Disabilities by ISBN: 9781838679774Publication Date: 2019-11-26eBook
While services for students with disabilities have been vastly improved in recent years, and research has created far greater awareness for the issues they face, there are still many obstacles to overcome as these students progress through the education system. This book discusses the considerable challenges these students conquer in education, varying relationships with teachers and academics, learning resources, and everyday social situations. Beginning with an introduction to transition services and students with disabilities, this invaluable text goes on to discuss a wide range of disability topics. Leaders in the field of transition services present recent research on students with learning disabilities, deaf/hard of hearing students, those who have visual impairments, autistic students, those with extensive support needs, physical disabilities, and more. This book is an excellent resource for special education researchers, scholars, practitioners, and professionals who teach and serve students with disabilities.
Specific Learning Difficulties by ISBN: 9781849055901Publication Date: 2015-10-21eBook - This book clearly explains what Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) are, and describes the symptoms of conditions most commonly encountered in the mainstream classroom: dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and OCD. The author provides an overview of the strengths and weaknesses commonly associated with each of these conditions, as well as practical suggestions for modifying teaching materials and methods to make learning enjoyable, effective and accessible for students.
Teaching Gifted and Talented Pupils in the Primary School by ISBN: 9781412903189Publication Date: 2005-07-12eBook
Working with Young Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds by ISBN: 9780766824065Publication Date: 2000-11-07eBook
