This text offers a wealth of practical and proven strategies for successfullyincluding students with disabilities in general education classrooms. The textprovi... » 

This text offers a wealth of practical and proven strategies for successfullyincluding students with disabilities in general education classrooms. The textprovides targeted strategies for the subject and skill areas as well asspecial needs of individual students with a strong focus on instructionalstrategies applied to specific student need areas. An overall theme ofeffective differentiated instruction is infused throughout the textrelating to those practices that are most closely aligned with academicsuccess. Features a unique threepart coverage of the fundamentals of teachingstudents with special needs effective general teaching practices andinclusive practices in specific subject areas. Includes much more specific andextensive information about the most effective strategies available and whenand how to use them. Employs a strong focus on instructional strategies anddescribes how these are applied to specific student need areas. Focuses onteaching preservice teachers how they can implement in the classroom specificstrategies to address a very wide range of grade levels skill levels academiccontent areas and extensive and very specific information on strategiesteachers can use in the areas of most concern to them e.g. behaviormanagement handling student confrontations promoting literacy memory forschool content motivation to learn maintaining student attention adaptingassessment and improving test scores and specific strategies for adaptingspecific lessons in math science social studies and career and technicaleducation. Written for preservice or inservice special education teachers whowill work with general education teachers in K12 classrooms also relevant forschool psychologists counselors support staff and other school personnel. «