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. 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. Understand how to implement strategies specific to literacy, math, science, self-determination and social skills. Reflect on study questions, closing cases and activities that provide real-life, diversity-rich examples of strategies in action.
Get the blueprint for building bridges that leave no learner behind! Teaching Adolescents With Disabilities is the gold standard for proven methods of teaching students with disabilities at the secondary level.
This practical new book focuses attention on a group of learners with unique needs and characteristics, adolescents with disabilities.
The book also has a broad emphasis on diversity, with a section in each chapter devoted to exploring how instructional strategies can be modified to accommodate diverse exceptional students.
"Wow! What a wonderful resource for all teachers. This book combines theory and practical strategies that can easily be implemented in anyone′s classroom.
For course in Inclusion or Introduction to Special Education. This popular, practical text prepares future teachers for the challenges of inclusion and gives them the background to work with a...
In Including adolescents with disabilities in general education classrooms (p. 204). Houghton Mifflin Company. Erikson, E. H. (1950). Childhood and society. Norton and Company. Erikson, E. H. (1968).
With inclusion, support services are focused on a “push in” rather than a “pull out” model. In inclusive settings supports follow the ... With inclusion, special education is a service, not a place. Services and instruction are designed ...
Teaching adolescent students with learning disabilities to self-advocate for accommodations. ... Journal of Educational Psychology, 105, 1210–1225. ... Including adolescents with disabilities in general education classrooms.
Offers elementary and secondary teachers practical strategies for teaching students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
This book is appropriate for practicing professionals in education and psychology and for speech/language therapists and other clinicians. It is also suitable as a graduate level text in these fields.