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Powerful Practices for High-Performing Special Educators

A valuable toolbox for every situation in the special education classroom!

Special education teachers face unique challenges, especially when they are just beginning. These research-based practices help teachers meet the academic needs of students with disabilities (including those who are also English language learners) in areas such as setting up a classroom, managing student behavior, designing effective instruction, incorporating technology, embracing diversity, and more. Each chapter features:

  • An overview and objectives
  • A brief research review
  • Step-by-step strategies that can be used immediately
  • Examples and scenarios from real teaching experiences
  • Self-assessments and reflections

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412968072
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2010
  • Page Count: 200
  • Publication date: March 31, 2010

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Description

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"This book has ideas, tools, and starting points for all the situations you could encounter on your first day of teaching or on your thousandth! It is practical and up-to-date on what it is like to be a special educator in schools today."
—Alison Martins, Special Education Teacher
Seven Hills Charter Public School, Worcester, MA

"This book is a new teacher's first stop for everything from 'How should I set up my room the first week of school?' to 'What types of assessments should I be using?'"
—Nancy Yost, Associate Professor of Special Education
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

A valuable toolbox for every situation in the special education classroom!

Special education teachers face unique challenges, especially when they are just beginning. This essential resource offers special educators a blueprint for dealing with the most common challenges they face both in the classroom and in the larger school environment.

These research-based strategies help teachers meet the academic needs of diverse students with disabilities (including those who are also English language learners) in areas such as setting up a classroom, managing student behavior, designing effective instruction, incorporating technology, embracing diversity, and more. Each chapter features:

  • An overview and objectives
  • A brief research review
  • Step-by-step strategies that can be used immediately
  • Examples and scenarios from real teaching experiences
  • Self-assessments and reflections

This all-in-one reference book offers the tools, strategies, and support special educators need for success in their first year and every year thereafter!

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Roberta Kaufman

Roberta Kaufman has been a P-12 special educator and university administrator in the Midwest where she has worked in both rural and urban settings. Her professional experience includes coordinating a partnership between multiple school districts in a metropolitan area and a university to design and implement a teacher preparation program for under-represented populations. Dr. Kaufman initiated a program providing instructional seminars followed by coaching support for individuals hired as special educators in a diverse urban school district. Practices described in Powerful Practices for High-Performing Special Educators  were implemented throughout the seminars and observed in classrooms with follow-up coaching. As a result of the coaching and seminars, a dramatic increase in the retention of new special education teachers was documented and maintained beyond two years. She is currently on the faculty of the School of Education at the University of South Dakota.
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Robert Wandberg

Robert Wandberg currently serves as the Language Diverse Literacy Coach for the Columbia Heights School District in Minnesota. His responsibilities include providing classroom teachers with effective, best practice strategies for working with English language learners, special education students, and low-literacy learners. He is a former middle and high school classroom teacher and state curriculum specialist with the Minnesota Department of Education. In addition to his numerous state, national, and international presentations, Dr. Wandberg has authored 12 middle/high school level textbooks for low-literacy students. He has also co-authored two university-level textbooks focusing on effective classroom practice and several professional journal articles, many of which focus on diverse students in the general education classroom. He also teaches graduate education courses at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

1. Working With Diverse Students

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: The Technicolor World of Truman Armstrong

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Changing Student Diversity

The Impact of Diverse Populations in Special Education Programming

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

2. Organizing a Classroom for Instruction

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Ms. Delacatto – See How She Runs!

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

3. Managing Student Behavior

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Mr. Downing – The Principal is Watching!

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

4. Designing Effective Instruction

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Mr. Rodriquez Makes a Plan

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

5. Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Ms. Webster Gets Active!

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

6. Graphic Organizers

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Picture the Students!

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

7. Incorporating Technology

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Emmalee Jones – Digital Immigrant or Native?

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

8. Student Assessment and Evaluation

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Ms. Thomson – What’s in a Number?

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

9. Promoting Achievement Through Collaboration

Objectives

Introduction

Wisdom of Practice: Mrs. Stanton’s Best Laid Plans

In Brief: What Does the Research Say?

Professional Practice

Summary

Self-Assessment and Reflection

References

Conclusion: Wrapping Up, Reflecting and Celebrating

Index

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