Special Education category: 3739 books
by Thomas P Hebert
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Understanding the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Students" presents a comprehensive treatment of social and emotional development in high-ability learners. The author a nationally recognized leader in gifted education discusses theories that guide our examination of the lived experiences...
Executive Function in Education, Second Edition
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This groundbreaking volume, now revised and updated, has given thousands of educators and clinicians a deeper understanding of executive function (EF) processes in typically developing children and those with learning difficulties and developmental disabilities. The book elucidates how PreK–12 students...
by Susan Johnsen, Ph.D., Mary Ruth Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Implementing RtI With Gifted Students shares how RtI can fit within the framework of gifted education programming models. This edited book will serve as a reference guide for those interested in learning more about RtI and how it might be effectively implemented to meet the needs of all gifted students....
by Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm. Within the theoretical paradigm of Foucault’s (1994) notions of governmentality, subjectification and dissonance,...
Making Preschool Inclusion Work
Strategies for Supporting Children, Teachers, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Preschool inclusion is about much more than placing a child in a general education classroom. A network of creative, effective supports must be in place for the child, the teachers, and the program— and this comprehensive textbook shows how to make it happen. Future educators will get a thorough...
Dyslexia Advocate!
How to Advocate for a Child with Dyslexia within the Public Education System
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This straightforward guide provides the essential information for parents and advocates to understand US law and get the right educational entitlements for a child with dyslexia.
Using case studies and examples, this book demonstrates clearly how to apply the Individuals with Disabilities Education...
by Kristen Stephens, Ph.D., Frances Karnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Gifted students require a curriculum that intentionally aligns with their advanced abilities to ensure engagement at the appropriate level of intensity and depth. Introduction to Curriculum Design in Gifted Education offers an in-depth exploration of curriculum development for the gifted. Included...
Differentiation Made Practical
Lessons to satisfy gifted learners, their classmates and teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2010
It’s a tall order meeting the needs of gifted children while juggling all the other teaching demands. The books in this series offer practical, insightful solutions. Differentiation Made Practical sets out a framework for weaving differentiation into the classroom programme. It offers...
Disabled Students in Education
Technology, Transition, and Inclusivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
There can be little doubt that the rapid technological developments that have characterized the decades since the middle of the 19th century have given great scope for improving the quality of life of disabled people. Disabled Students in Education: Technology, Transition, and Inclusivity reports...
Improving the Context for Inclusion
Personalising Teacher Development through Collaborative Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This timely book addresses the need for increasing multi-agency capacity in schools, as the success of initiatives such as ‘Every Child Matters’ or ‘personalised learning’ depends on teachers understanding the challenges faced by young people in learning effectively and happily in their school.
The...
Innovative Approaches to Educational Leadership
Selected Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Of late, leadership has come to include individuals in elementary, secondary and tertiary institutions who do not necessarily carry leadership titles. Faculty in preK-16 institutions, along with other staff and community people, have increasingly begun to take on leadership responsibilities as shared...
Diversity in Gifted Education
International Perspectives on Global Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2006
This timely book brings together experts from around the world to share expertise and best practice to form an eclectic collection of the best approaches for teaching gifted and talented children from different cultures. Each chapter:
presents an overview of international perspectives on the...
Teaching Mathematics Online
Emergent Technologies and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Educational technologies (e-learning environments or learning management systems for individual and collaborative learning, Internet resources for teaching and learning, academic materials in electronic format, specific subject-related software, groupware and social network software, etc.) are changing...
Best Practices in Professional Learning and Teacher Preparation in Gifted Education (Vol. 1)
Methods and Strategies for Gifted Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Teacher preparation programs may not adequately train teachers in how to meet the needs of gifted and talented students in the regular classroom. Several states offer additional teacher preparation programs by providing either an endorsement or certification in the field, but these are often pursued...