Strategies for Teaching Students with Special Needs: Methods and Techniques for Classroom Instruction - Softcover

The target audience for this book is elementary teachers who teach in inclusive settings with special needs children in their class. It covers low-incidence and high-incidence disabilities, informal assessment, and creative ideas for managing and organizing classroom time.The focus is on reading evaluation and reading methods, literacy in the language arts, mathematics evaluation and mathematics instruction, and ideas for the social aspects of inclusion. The book gives proven methods, practical guidelines, and new innovations for classroom instruction. Vignettes, key terms, the IEP process, and informal assessment are all part of this new text. The author and the contributors are highly experienced professionals with classroom teaching backgrounds. This book provides step-by-step suggestions for working with special children in inclusive classrooms. It focuses on reading and mathematics. It is packed with dozens of ideas and tips for managing classroom time. It includes vignettes and activities throughout the text.