High-Leverage Practices (HLPs) in Special Education: Guide #6 - Instruction

The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)

National Professional Resources, Inc.

This 6 page laminated reference guide authored by Sandra Rief, leading authority and noted author on educating students with attention, behavioral and learning difficulties, presents a comprehensive and practical reference guide of effective strategies for use in general education environments. Strategies that address: Â· Getting and Maintaining attention Â· Differentiating Instruction Â· Academic Strategies related to organization, study skills, and written language Â· Collaborating and training for success. This tri-fold laminated reference guide is a valuable desk reference for teachers searching for proven and successful strategies that work with students who present the characteristics of ADHD and/or LD. It is also a powerful training tool for teacher trainers.

ADHD & LD: Strategies At Your Fingertips (Spanish Edition)

Sandra Rief

Reference

Technology is not only having a profound impact on the way we live our lives, but also how we learn and access information. For students with disabilities, technology can make the difference between success and failure in general education environments. Assistive Technology (AT) provides a means to help students compensate for their disabilities while building upon their strengths. Utilizing the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this revised and updated DVD takes you into classrooms where AT solutions are being successfully implemented for students requiring: auditory processing supports fine-motor and writing supports reading supports Observe first-hand how hardware and software programs not only assist students in being more successful academically, but how AT empowers them to be more confident and independent learners. The viewer will be able to: Describe the value of Assistive Technology in helping students access the general education curriculum Explain how Assistive Technology adheres to the theory of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) List a variety of hardware and software programs available for use as AT solutions Identify specific AT devices and software programs to support students experiencing auditory processing, fine-motor, writing, as well as reading problems Identify the five steps to successfully implement Assistive Technology

Assistive Technology: Powerful Solutions for Success

Student diversity, inclusion of students with special needs, and the move toward heterogeneous grouping present challenges to teachers and administrators. This video, featuring well-known educator and author Howard Gardner, provides a review of MI theory and the seven intellegences, explodes some myths about MI, and shows how teachers in the Fuller Elementary School of Gloucester, MA have incorporated MI theory into their teaching and community relations. This audio-visual presentation will be helpful to educators dealing with diversity in their schools and communities.

How Are Kids Smart?: Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

Howard, Gardner

Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning: Providing for All Learners in General Education Classrooms: Mathematics

Kagan, Dr. Spencer

The New Teacher: Meeting the Challenges [VHS]

Linda Darling-Hammond, Executive Director, National Commission on Teaching

Quality inclusive education is a goal and a requirement for educators today. This second edition of The Inclusive Education Checklist is an indispensable resource for educators committed to creating and sustaining truly inclusive educational environments that achieve the goals of access, participation, supports, and success for all children.Authors Richard Villa and Jacqueline Thousand, who have spent over four decades advocating for and supporting school communities to initiate, implement, and sustain inclusive education best practices, synthesize their experience and extensive research to provide educators with an insightful and practical tool for implementing, assessing, and optimizing inclusive education. The book offers a checklist of 15 key inclusive education best practices that together comprise quality inclusive education. Each chapter details an individual best practice and provides a list of best practice indicators that deconstruct the best practice. Readers are instructed to rate the degree to which each indicator occurs in their school in a scoring box to the left of the indicator. Instructions are provided for how to calculate and interpret the total score, mean score, and range of scores. This updated edition includes new content on teaching in virtual and blended environments, social and emotional learning, restorative justice, professional learning and coaching, and decision-making processes for determining where, when, and how to address IEP goals for students with extensive support needs.

The Inclusive Education Checklist, A Self-Assessment of Best Practices (2nd Edition)

Education & Teaching

Richard Villa

Jacqueline Thousand

Schools & Teaching

Dr. Lisa Dieker, Director of the Lockheed Martin Mathematics and Science Academy, Associate Professor, at the University of Central Florida, author and nationally acclaimed teacher trainer, presents practical and effective strategies for inclusion of middle and high school students with mild to moderate disabilities. Dr. Dieker focuses both on schoolwide, as well as classroom-based approaches, and provides practical solutions to implement inclusion by addressing the many challenges presented by students and teachers in secondary learning environments. Within her book, explore in-depth solutions to the challenge of secondary inclusion. Learn how practical strategies will enable the needs of all students to be met in a general education setting.

Demystifying Secondary Inclusion: Powerful School-wide & Classroom Strategies

Lisa Dieker

As RTI becomes a reality in more schools, all staff must be able to support this initiative. This book very explicitly provides paraeducators with the tools that will make them a meaningful part of the RTI team, with focus on the roles of collaborator, communicator, instructional supporter and progress monitor! Excellent for: · Teacher Aides · Teaching Assistants · Instructional Aides · Monitors

RTI and the Paraeducator's Roles: Effective Teaming

Dr. Mary Lasater

Based upon the premise that problems need to be matched to targeted interventions that remediate deficit skills this book provides very concrete suggested activities at each of the 3 Tiers for the following areas: Auditory Processing,Visual Processing , Language, Reading, Math, Spelling and Behavior. Additionally, it provides simple forms for use in the RTI process, and a wealth of suggested materials for each deficit area. It is a great resource for student-based teams and a wide array of interventionists (teacher, speech/language pathologist, occupational therapist, etc.)

RTI Guide: Making It Work

D.A.

Dr. Concetta Russo

Dr. Ellenmorris Tiegerman

Christine Tadziewicz

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