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Effective Instruction for Students With Special Needs

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Bob Algozzine, Jim Ysseldyke

The tips and tools you need to provide high-quality instruction for students with exceptionalities!

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this guide presents the central components of highly effective instruction for special needs students and the accommodations to consider when:

Planning Instruction: deciding what and how to teach while communicating realistic expectations
Managing Instruction: preparing for instruction, using time productively, and creating a positive environment
Delivering Instruction: presenting content, monitoring student learning, and adjusting instruction
Evaluating Instruction: monitoring student understanding and engaged time, recording student progress, using data to make decisions, and evaluating student performance

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412938976
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 128
Publication date: May 23, 2006

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The tips and tools you need to provide high-quality instruction for students with exceptionalities!

Teaching is most effective when certain general principles are followed; however, not all students are alike, and not all teaching methods are equally effective.

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, Effective Instruction for Students With Special Needs presents the key components of highly effective instruction and the accommodations and modifications that should be made for special-needs students when:

Planning Instruction: deciding what and how to teach while communicating realistic expectations
Managing Instruction: preparing for instruction, using time productively, and creating a positive environment
Delivering Instruction: presenting content, monitoring student learning, and adjusting instruction
Evaluating Instruction: monitoring student understanding and engaged time, recording student progress, using data to make decisions, and making judgments about student performance

For cases in which more than slight adaptations may be necessary, this helpful guide also highlights special instructional aids and specific teaching methods proven to enhance the success of students with special needs.

A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher: The 13-Book Collection
The collection equips educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring-and meeting-their fullest potential.

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Key features

Practical, accessible, research-based information and advice distilled from a highly-successful textbook
Numerous case studies
Practical, age-appropriate strategies for the classroom
Reflection/professional development exercises
Resources – books, articles, organizations
Linked to IDEA 2004

Author(s)

Bob Algozzine

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.

Jim Ysseldyke

Jim Ysseldyke, Ph.D., is Birkmaier Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, director of the School Psychology Program, and director of the Center for Reading Research at the University of Minnesota. Widely requested as a staff developer and conference speaker, Ysseldyke brings more than 30 years of research and teaching experience to educational professionals around the globe.

As the former director of the federally funded National Center on Educational Outcomes, Ysseldyke conducted research and provided technical support that helped to boost the academic performance of students with disabilities and improve school assessment techniques nationally. Today, he continues to work to improve the education of students with disabilities.

The author of more than 300 publications on special education and school psychology, Ysseldyke is best known for his textbooks on assessment, effective instruction, issues in special education, and other cutting-edge areas of education and school psychology. With A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher, Ysseldyke seeks to equip educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring—and meeting—all their potentials.

Table of Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Effective Instruction for Students With Special

1.What Are the Components of Effective Instruction?

Planning Instruction

Managing Instruction

Delivering Instruction

Evaluating Instruction

2.What Methods Should Teachers Use to Teach Students Who Are Exceptional?

Behavior Therapy

Precision Teaching

Ability Training

Direct Instruction

Cognitive Behavior Modification

Cognitive Skills Training

Critical Thinking

Counseling Therapy

Learning Strategies

Cooperative Learning

Peer-Directed Learning

Peer Tutoring

Class-Wide Peer Tutoring

Social Skills Training

3. What Sort of Special Instructional Adaptations Are Available?

4. Effective Instruction in Perspective

5. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Websites

Books

Organizations

References

Index

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