<p>Higher standards and greater accountability have contributed to an alarming rise in test anxiety in our students. To help them pass mandated assessments, teachers drill on facts and give endless practice tests. But teaching to the test isn't enough. High stakes testing produces high anxiety which, in turn, lowers performance. Teachers, parents, and kids must do more to minimize its negative effects and increase test results. This book offers constructive and powerful strategies that specifically target the physical, emotional, and cognitive symptoms of anxiety. This resource serves as a comprehensive and practical guide for test-takers of all ages. It is an essential resource for teachers and parents of students who are faced with the increased testing mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act.</p>

Test Anxiety & What You Can Do About It

Education & Teaching

Joseph Casbarro

Schools & Teaching

Dude Publishing/ National Professional Resources, Inc.

This revised edition of our best seller focuses on a whole school approach that positions students as the centerpiece of educational decision-making. This book reinforces both the need for and the path to ensuring all students have full access to the entire general education curriculum. Excellent stand-alone resource for teachers and staff developers. Although designed to serve as a hands-on free-standing resource, the book is complimented by the companion video. It contains sections that address IDEA (PL. 105-17), development of the students program, collaboration, differentiated classrooms, curricular adaptations, supplementary aids & services, and more. This book supports the implementation of inclusive practices by presenting the following: a definition and description of the inclusive practice, the relationship of the practice to IDEA, best practices based upon experience and current research, roles for school personnel, administrators, related services providers, and clinicians, roles for parents, black line masters for use in staff development activities, or by teachers to help structure inclusive classrooms, references for additional treatment about each topic, additional information about resources, organizations, videos, web sites, and a glossary.

Inclusion: A Service, Not a Place, A Whole School Approach

Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky

Alan Gartner

<p>The heart-warming, awe-inspiring story of Kim Peek, the mega-savant who was the inspiration for the movie, "Rain Man", and his father, Fran, who is an unparalleled role model for every parent. Learn about Kim's unique brain structure, reclusive early childhood, remarkable transformation, prodigious-savant memory abilities in 15 subject areas, vast impact on the education adult disability community, "Golden rule" message, and symbiotic relationship with his father. This book will help you better understand the wonder of Kim and his amazing abilities as a "prodigious intellectual memory savant" who has read and memorized over 12,000 books! It will also indelibly imprint on your mind and heart the power of unconditional parental love. This book is a must-read for parents of children with special needs and educators.</p>

The Life and Message of The Real Rain Man: The Journey of a Mega-Savant

Francis Peek

Lisa L. Hanson

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