Beverley Johns, Garrison Alternative School, Jacksonville, IL
E. Paula Crowley, Illinois State University
Eleanor Guetzloe, University of South Florida
This book is designed to show how to create specialized instruction based on the individualized needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders. The book demonstrates throughout how to plan a curriculum based on a diagnostic prescriptive approach.
The authors stress that teachers must know as much as possible about each student. This includes strengths, deficits, interests, and behavioral functions. Teachers can then plan an appropriate program based on effective, direct instructional approaches.
Special Features
- Shows both social and academic interventions
- Includes ideas for becoming partners with community agencies
- Gives techniques for planning communication with parents
- Helps teachers to plan engaged time in learning activities
Contents
- The Teacher as a Catalyst for Change
- Assumptions Underlying Quality Educational Programming
- Life Skills and Transition to Adulthood
- Role of the IEP in Education of Students With E/BD
- Meaningful and Relevant Curriculum
- The Central Role of Teaching Social Skills
- Multicultural Education for Students With E/BD
- Curriculum of Hope: Focusing on Helping Others
- Engaged Time in the Classroom
- Student Self-Management
- Higher-Level Thinking Skills
- Learning Strategies and Study Skills
- Access to the General Curriculum
- Effective Inclusion of Students With E/BD
- Working With Families of Students With E/BD
256 pages
2002
paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-287-3
$39.95
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