Including Adolescents with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0135014964 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"It gets the job done." according to Sabertooth. A dense book. It has a lot in it. Not super user friendly but a good reference text.
Understand how to implement strategies specific to literacy, math, science, self-determination and social skills. Organized in two parts, it explains the developmental differences, disabilities, and social skills deficits that can impact adolescents and then offers specific ways to improve instruction. Learn more about strategies such as co-teaching, differentiated instruction, strategies instruction, and peer-assisted learning. Written by a best-selling author team, this book focuses on secondary inclusive classrooms and the instructional strategies that ensure the learning success of all middle and secondary students. Focused on research-based strategies, Teaching Adolescents in Middle and Secondary Inclusive Classrooms, 1e, shows how to accommodate and modify instruction for secondary students with special needs. Reflect on study questions, closing cases and activities that provide real-life, diversity-rich examples of strategies in action.
Features· A focus on secondary inclusive classrooms pinpoints developmental differences, disabilities, social skills deficits and other problems that can impact students in middle and secondary schools. · Inclusion strategies for general instruction provide specific ways to modify instruction for students with special needs and illustrate techniques such as co-teaching, differentiated instruction, strategies instruction, and peer-assisted learning. . Organized in two parts, the book explains adolescent developmental differences, disabilities, and social skills issues and then offers instructional strategies
TomSmith is currently Dean of the College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, and University Professor of Special Education. Additionally, he has served as Executive Director of the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children for 20 years. Dr. Dr. Her research interests include legal issues in the provision of appropriate services for st