This book discusses the best instructional practices for teaching students with mild disabilities. It provides both general and special education teachers with the latest up-to-date strategies. You'll find curriculum considerations in an inclusive environment and specific interventions. It is empirically based and translates the latest research into classroom practice. It includes learning strategies, curriculum based measurement, assessment, co-teaching, and much, much more.

Special Features

• Addresses all of the cutting edge issues in teaching students with mild disabilities
• Includes learning disabilities, behavior disorders, and mildly retarded
• Empirically based instructional information for effective teaching
• Designed for both general education and special education students
• Highly practical and translates research into classroom practice

Contents

Part One: Managerial Strategies

1. Discipline in Special Education and General Education Settings
2. The Missing Link: Students Discuss School Discipline
3. Courage for the Discouraged: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Troubled and Troubling Children
4. Management of Aggressive and Violent Behavior in Schools
5. Classroom Interventions for Students with Attention Deficit Disorders
6. Behavior Management in Inclusive Classrooms

Part Two: Curriculum Strategies

7. Preferred and Promising Practices for Social Skills Instruction
8. Elementary School Science for Students with Disabilities
9. Teaching Students with Learning Problems in Math
10. Strategies for Teaching Social Studies
11. Curriculum Considerations in an Inclusive Environment
12. Curriculum and Instructional Issues in Teaching Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities
13. A Focus on Curriculum Design: When Children Fail

Part Three: Instructional Strategies

14. Best Academic Practices for Inclusive Classrooms
15. Peer-Mediated Instruction and Interventions
16. Secondary Inclusion Programs for Students with Mild Disabilities
17. Curriculum-Based Collaboration
18. Teaching Concepts: Procedures for the Design and Delivery of Instruction
19. Educational Interventions for Students with Attention Deficit Disorder
20. Co-Teaching: Guidelines for Creating Effective Practices

500 pages
1998/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-253-8
$54.00