Special Education category: 3739 books
The Interconnection Between Formal Inclusion and Internal Exclusion: How the `Training Room´ Program in German Schools Seeks to Improve Classroom Discipline, but in Doing so Inhibits the Development of a Participative and Empowering Learning Culture
Studies in Social, Emotional and Behavioral Education, Vol. 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Since 2003, the `Training Room´ Program (TRP), a time-out model that is based on the American `Responsible Thinking Process´ (RTP), has become established in German schools in response to students’ increasingly challenging learning and social behavior. School administrators and academics alike recommend...
Dyslexia, Speech and Language
A Practitioner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This authoritative handbook presents current ideas on the relationship between spoken and written language difficulties. It provides clinical and educational perspectives on the assessment and management of children's reading and spelling problems. The book begins with a theoretical overview.
The...
From Inclusion to Engagement
Helping Students Engage with Schooling through Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
From Inclusion to Engagement challenges the ideologically driven academic discourse that has come to dominate inclusive education by presenting research-based knowledge about what actually works.
Presents an innovative approach rooted in a biopsychosocial theoretical perspective – an approach...
Exceptionality in East Asia
Explorations in the Actiotope Model of Giftedness
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving.
Using the actiotope model of...
Research Methods in Applied Settings
An Integrated Approach to Design and Analysis, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This text teaches readers how to plan, conduct, and write a research project and select and interpret data through its integrated approach to quantitative research methods. Although not a statistics book, students learn to master which technique to use when and how to analyze and interpret results,...
Educational Technology, Teacher Knowledge, and Classroom Impact
A Research Handbook on Frameworks and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Recent technological innovation has altered the way educators approach teaching and learning. These new technologies provide countless advantages in the classroom; however, we are not yet clear on how they should be implemented. The pedagogical value of specific technology tools and the cumulative...
Gumbo for the Soul
Liberating Memoirs and Stories to Inspire Females of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Rejection. Loss. Confusion. Pain. Our past and our future are intertwined. Each distinct memory becomes one life. What once hurt, eventually heals, and the lesson (or lessons) to be learned becomes one with our soul and our spirit. Our experiences provide strength instead of destruction. Our greatgrandmothers,...
by William Murinda
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Everyday Communication is a book that looks at how the environment and perceptions define and impact how mankind, entities, and nonhuman beings communicate. The book also tries to analyze how communication affects culture or how culture itself impacts on how we communicate. Man-made structures and...
Teaching Gifted Learners in STEM Subjects
Developing Talent in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book offers an overview of programmes designed to support the learning of gifted and talented students in STEM subjects, both to allow them to meet their potential and to encourage them to proceed towards careers in STEM areas. The chapters from a range of national contexts report on perspectives,...
Assessment for Intervention, Second Edition
A Problem-Solving Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). This authoritative work provides a complete guide to implementing a wide range of problem-solving assessment methods:...
by Virginia W. Berninger, Ph.D., Beverly J. Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
How can teachers provide effective instruction for students with learning disabilities while meeting the needs of all students? The second edition of this accessible text gives K–12 educators research-based answers, straight from two highly respected voices in the field. The first teacher training...
Participatory Evaluation Up Close
An Integration of ResearchBased Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Empiricism provides the backbone of knowledge creation within social science disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology) and applied domains of study (e.g., education, administration) alike. Yet, relative to such domains of inquiry, comparatively little empirical research on evaluation has occurred,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Response to intervention (RTI) is improving student outcomes in K–12 classrooms across the country, but how can it best be applied in early childhood settings? Find out in this authoritative handbook, the first complete resource on what we know about using RTI to promote all young children's school...
by Evelyn S. Johnson, Lori A. Smith, Monica L. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Practical solutions for implementing RTI and improving student outcomes in Grades 6–12!
This comprehensive book provides the specific guidance secondary administrators need to successfully implement Response to Intervention (RTI) and help their struggling adolescent learners. Using the latest...