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Mastropieri and Scruggs (special education, George Mason U.) suggest strategies for teaching students with disabilities in general education classrooms. They describe legal issues and the characteristics of students with disabilities and other special needs, followed by teaching and learning strategies for inclusive classrooms that can be applied across curriculum areas and grade levels. They include behavior management, social skills, peer assistance and tutoring, cooperative learning, promoting motivation and affect, enhancing attention and memory, study skills, and assessment. The final section addresses specific content areas, including career and technical education. This edition has been reorganized, and incorporates more information on secondary students, students with autism, response-to-intervention strategies, and communicating with families. Inclusion checklists have been revised, and technology highlights and references have been updated. Merrill is an imprint of Pearson. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This text offers a wealth of practical and proven strategies for successfully including students with disabilities in general education classrooms. The text provides targeted strategies for the subject and skill areas, as well as special needs of individual students, with a strong focus on instructional strategies applied to specific student need areas. An overall theme of “effective, differentiated instruction” is infused throughout the text, relating to those practices that are most closely aligned with academic success. The text is unique in its three-part coverage of 1). the fundamentals of teaching students with special needs, 2). effective general teaching practices, and 3).inclusive practices in specific subject areas. With a strong focus on instructional strategies and how they are applied to specific student need areas, the text goes further by featuring more specific strategies than any other text, and extensive information about the most effective strategies available, and when and how to use them.. This strong focus instructs pre-service teachers and other education personnel on how they can implement in the classroom specific strategies to address a very wide range of grade levels, skill levels, academic content areas; and extensive and very specific information on strategies teachers can use in the areas of most concern to them, e.g., behavior management, handling student confrontations, promoting literacy, memory for school content, motivation to learn, maintaining student attention, adapting assessment and improving test scores, and specific strategies for adapting specific lessons in math, science, social studies, and career and technical education. Specifically written for pre-service or in-service special education teachers who will work with general education teachers in K-12 classrooms, the text is also relevant for school psychologists, counselors, support staff, and other school personnel interested in helping all students succeed in the classroom.
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