The target audience for this text is elementary teachers, both general and special, and the emphasis is on academic instructional strategies. The contents provide step-by-step suggestions to assist a general education teacher in inclusive settings.

Special and general educators need information that will help them teach all their students in the general education classroom. Teaching Special Learners in the General Education Classroom meets that need by presenting workable, proven methods. It includes practical guidelines and strategies that work so teaching is made easier.

Special Features

• Covers planning, assessment, and groupings
• Noncategorical with dozens of teaching methods and curricular modifications
• Vignettes and activities are sprinkled throughout the book
• Includes programming and intervention methods
• Step-by-step suggestions to work with special children in the general education classroom
• Addresses the inclusion movements
• Packed with dozens of ideas and tips for managing classroom time

Contents

1. A Modern Fable
2. Mainstreaming and Inclusion Movements
3. Children with Mild to Moderate Learning Problems
4. Children with Physical, Visual, and Hearing Disabilities
5. The Individualized Education Program
6. Classroom Organization
7. Pinpointing Reading Skill
8. Reading Methods
9. Reading for Special Populations
10. Language Arts
11. Mathematics Skills Evaluation
12. Mathematics Instruction
13. Accommodation through Technology

Instructors Manual
484 pages
1995/hardback/ISBN 0-89108-238-7
$56.00