This text provides learning strategies to effectively teach adolescents. The strategies instructional approach emphasizes thinking processes, self-regulation, and problem solving. This book is perfect for any secondary methods course and belongs on the desk of every professional educator.

The text presents a wide range of general strategies that can be applied to all content areas. The goal is to identify strategies that are effective so the student learns and generalizes them. You'll also find new information on memory, note-taking, test-taking, social skills, transition, and collaborative skills.

The authors incorporate contributions from solid research and the best practices in adolescent education and psychology into this edition. The text introduces new topics and raises new issues. The authors present current and well-grounded classroom practices based on their expertise in intervention research.

Special Features

• Solid empirical base
• Contains advanced organizers at the start of each chapter
• Covers academic, social, and transition concerns
• Provides step-by-step procedures for each stage of strategy acquisition and generalization
• Incorporates proven techniques that work with adolescents

Contents

1. Learning Disabilities in Adolescents: A Perspective
2. Perspectives on Instruction in Learning Strategies
3. Reading Strategy Instruction
4. Writing Strategy Instruction
5. Memory and Test-Taking Strategies
6. Note-Taking Strategy Instruction
7. Perspectives on Mathematics Instruction
8. Social Skills Strategy Instruction
9. Strategic Instruction in the Content Areas
10. Strategies for Transition to Postsecondary Educational Settings
11. Strategies for Transition to Employment Settings
12. Collaborative Teaming in the Secondary School

638 pages
1996/hardback/ISBN 978-0-89108-241-5
$80.00

This text bridges the gap between general and special education pedagogy by including constructivism, humanist, social-cultural, and multicultural points of view.

Through case studies and discussions, you will see students experiencing success using student-centered curriculum approaches, thematic teaching, multi-age grouping, peer-mediated instruction, multicultural curriculum, authentic assessment, and much, much more!

The book includes "thought pieces" presenting main issues and questions brought about by new perspectives. Each thought piece is followed by practical ideas to improve classroom instruction. It also shows how to access perspectives from the students who are being taught. It allows teachers to know how their students learn best and how to plan curriculum for them. You will find a whole new approach to teaching in this book.

Special Features

• Links constructivism to special education practices
• Addresses diversity issues
• Intended for both special and general classrooms
• Pragmatic, easy to use strategies

Contents

1. Reconceptualizing Learning Disabilities by Reconceptualizing Education
2. Reconceptualizing the Learning Disabilities Paradigm: Multicultural Imperatives
3. A Personal Journey: Changing Concepts of Learning and Disability
4. Critical Cultural Knowledge in Special Education: Reshaping School Leadership Responsiveness
5. Transforming Children's Experiences of Failure into Stories and Narratives of Competence
6. Curriculum-Based Measurement: Cheaper, Faster, and Better Assessment of Students with Learning Disabilities
7. Personalized Grading Plans: A Systematic Approach to Making the Grades of Included Students More Accurate and Meaningful
8. Andrew, Stuck in Words: A Retrospective Miscue Analysis Case Study in Revaluing
9. Taking an Aesthetic Stance Toward Teaching and Assessment
10. Successful Teacher Strategies in a Multicultural Language Arts Classroom: Organization, Techniques, and Discipline
11. Necessary Conversations: Reframing Support in General Education Classrooms for Students with Learning Disabilities
12. Shared Reading for Older Emergent Readers in Bilingual Classrooms
13. Tools for Reconceptualizing the Inclusive Classroom: Computers and Cooperative Learning
14. Successful Participation Through Teaching Learning Strategies and Organization Skills
15. High-Access Instruction: Practical Strategies to Increase Active Learning in Diverse Classrooms
16. Using Student Investigation to Water Up Content-Area Instruction for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities
17. Sociocultural Scaffolding as a Means to Increase Students’ Self-Regulatory Repertoires: Paraeducators as Cultural Books

344 pages
2001/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-270-5
$48.00