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Creating Successful Learning Environments for African American Learners With Exceptionalities

By: Festus E. Obiakor, Bridgie Alexis Ford

Discover the key strategies to empowering African American students with exceptionalities!

The straightforward contributions from more than 25 leading scholars and practitioners featured in this book provide concrete rationales and solutions for maximizing the intellectual, academic, and social achievement of African American students. It comprehensively covers everything from dealing with foundational issues such as accountability, categorization, and legal implications, to managing learning environments.

Highlights include:

Assessment and instructional techniques for general and special education programs
Intervention tactics for behavioral issues
Tips for utilizing family and community resources to complement the classroom
Strategies for enhancing communication skills and maximizing gifted and talented learners

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761945574
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2002
Page Count: 256
Publication date: June 18, 2002

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Discover the key strategies to empowering African American students with exceptionalities!

Central to the teaching and learning of African American students is an understanding of their cultures, background experiences, and perspectives, while applying this understanding to the design, implementation, and assessment of educational programs. This comprehensive, culturally responsive approach is supported by straightforward and in-depth contributions from more than 25 leading scholars and practitioners featured in this book.

The guide focuses on specific, innovative methods for maximizing the learning opportunities and outcomes of African American students—from dealing with foundational issues such as accountability, categorization, and legal implications, to managing learning environments and enhancing school practices through teacher preparation and early childhood programs.

By providing concrete rationales and solutions for maximizing the intellectual, academic, and social achievement of African American learners, this groundbreaking text presents the tools necessary for meeting the needs of these students, including:

Assessment and instructional techniques for general and special education programs, including discussions on specific learning disabilities
Intervention tactics for behavioral issues
Tips for utilizing family and community resources to complement the classroom
Strategies for enhancing students' communication skills and maximizing the potential of gifted and talented learners

Key features

Very little competition in this area, though the topic receives a lot of coverage in magazine and journal pieces.
Fist incarnation of the book has been a successful seller.
Very well-known editors and contributors
Functional pedagogy that encourages practical application
Of 16 contributors, virtually each one will make this book required reading for their classes.

Author(s)

Festus E. Obiakor

Festus E. Obiakor, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Manager, Sunny Educational Consulting, Shorewood, Wisconsin. He has served as Department Head and Professor, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia and The City College of New York, New York. A teacher, scholar, leader, and consultant, he has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at a variety of universities. He is the author of more than 150 publications, including books, articles, and commentaries; and he has presented papers at many national and international conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of reputable nationally and internationally refereed journals, including Multicultural Learning and Teaching (MLT) in which he serves as Executive Editor. Dr. Obiakor is a leader who has been involved in many landmark scholarly works in the fields of general and special education, with particular focus on African American and other culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners and he continues to prescribe multidimensional methods of assessment, teaching, and intervention for these individuals. Based on this premise, Dr. Obiakor created the Comprehensive Support Model (CSM), an intervention model that values the collaborative, consultative, and cooperative energies of students, families, teachers/service providers, communities, and government agencies.

Bridgie Alexis Ford

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Part I: Foundations of Educational Change

1. School Accountability and Reform: Implications and African Americans With Exceptionalities

2. Legal Foundations of Special Education for African American Learners

3. Functionalizing Assessment for African American Learners in General and Special Education Programs

4. Categorization: Impact on African American Learners With Exceptionalities

Part II: Managing Learning Environments

5. Instructional Strategies for African American Learners With Cognitive Disabilities

6. Working With African American Students With Specific Learning Disabilities

7. Interventions for African American Learners With Behavioral Problems

8. Maximizing the Learning Potential of African American Learners With Gifts and Talents

9. Communication Skills of African American Learners With Disabilities

10. Developing Self-Empowerment in African American Learners With Special Problems

Part III: Complementing the School Environment

11. Service Delivery for African American Young Children With Special Needs

12. African American Families: Equal Partners in General and Special Education

13. African American Community Resources: Essential Educational Enhancers for African American Children and Youth

14. Transitioning African American High School Students With Disabilities

15. Teacher-Preparation for African American Exceptional Learners: A Cultural-Historical Approach

16. Culturally Responsive Leadership for African Americans With Exceptionalities

17. Summary of Comments: Race, Class, Gender, and Exceptionality of African American Learners

Index

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