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Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs

Mannix, Darlene.


This book contains lesson plans and student worksheets that are meant to help high school students with special needs learn about acceptable social behavior and to help them develop basic social skills. Students will then use this knowledge to complete activity sheets that require them to resolve issues involving real-world applications.
Date Published:1998

The incredible 5-point scale: assisting students in understanding social interactions and controlling their emotional responses, 2nd ed

Buron, Kari Dunn


This edition includes new ideas for teaching and reinforcing social and behavior management skills across a range of ages and the autism spectrum. It shows how to use scales to teach nonverbal children and how they can be written into an IEP.
Date Published:2012

Building social relationships, BSR-3: a systematic approach to teaching social interaction skills to children and adolescents with autism and other social challenges

Bellini, Scott


Building Social Relationships 3 program was created to address the need for effective social skills programming. It shows how to assess and teach social skills and activate social-cognitive processing.
Date Published:2023

In a reading state of mind : brain research, teacher modeling, and comprehension instruction

Fisher, Douglas


This book blends research about the brain and learning with classroom examples to show how instructional modeling can lead to increased engagement and literacy learning. It explores what happens in the brain as a person reads and shows teachers how to model their own thinking effectively. It introduces ways to model comprehension and word solving strategies, as well as how to use text structures and text features to learn and retain information. The DVD gives an opportunity to see teacher modeling in action in real classrooms, and the final chapter in the book serves as a professional development guide with discussion questions that correspond to segments of the DVD.
Date Published:2009

This book blends research about the brain and learning with classroom examples to show how instructional modeling can lead to increased engagement and literacy learning. It explores what happens in the brain as a person reads and shows teachers how to model their own thinking effectively. It introduces ways to model comprehension and word solving strategies, as well as how to use text structures and text features to learn and retain information. The DVD gives an opportunity to see teacher modeling in action in real classrooms, and the final chapter in the book serves as a professional development guide with discussion questions that correspond to segments of the DVD.

Date Published:2009

Building powerful numeracy for middle and high school students

Harris, Pamela Weber


Topics: teaching the importance of representation (rather than procedures); teach with problem strings (look to the numbers first before choosing a strategy for computation). Understanding numerical relationships helps students choose a strategy, rather than just one way to solve a problem.
Date Published:2011

Guiding School Improvement with Action Research

Sagor, Richard.


Drawing from the experiences of individual teachers, faculties, and school districts, Richard Sagor describes how action research can enhance teachers' professional standing and efficacy while helping them succeed in settings characterized by increasingly diverse student populations and an emphasis on standards-based reform. He also demonstrates how administrators and policymakers can use action research to bolster efforts related to accreditation, teacher supervision, and job-embedded staff development.
Date Published:2000

Drawing from the experiences of individual teachers, faculties, and school districts, Richard Sagor describes how action research can enhance teachers' professional standing and efficacy while helping them succeed in settings characterized by increasingly diverse student populations and an emphasis on standards-based reform. He also demonstrates how administrators and policymakers can use action research to bolster efforts related to accreditation, teacher supervision, and job-embedded staff development.

Date Published:2000

Leading the rebound: 20+ must-dos to restart teaching and learning

Fisher, Douglas


Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey present actions, mindsets, and approaches to improve schools and school systems. It includes all kinds of resources--including Visible Learning research, sample planning tools, and other essential tips and strategies--to provide you with a start-to-finish roadmap for navigating this absolutely critical next leg in our journey toward a "better normal."
Date Published:2021

Battling boredom : 99 strategies to spark student engagement /

Harris, Bryan.


These 99 strategies designed to help engage students and focus their attention and engage students.
Date Published:2011

Total participation techniques: making every student an active learner, 2nd ed

Himmele, Persida


Describes 51 teaching alternatives to "stand and deliver". Includes examples from authentic classrooms, step-by-step instructions, and suggestions on how to adapt and personalize the techniques to fit context and content.
Date Published:2017

Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Parent's Guide


This resource provides both general information and reassurance for families and professionals of children who have sustained traumatic brain injuries. It includes chapters by medical specialists, educators, and a lawyer. They explain complex concepts and discuss issues involving: medical treatment; coping and adjustment; the effect on cognition, speech, and language; behavior and management strategies; educational needs; and legal concerns. The appendices include scales used to assess patients with traumatic brain injuries as well as a list of national and state organizations.
Date Published:2001

This resource provides both general information and reassurance for families and professionals of children who have sustained traumatic brain injuries. It includes chapters by medical specialists, educators, and a lawyer. They explain complex concepts and discuss issues involving: medical treatment; coping and adjustment; the effect on cognition, speech, and language; behavior and management strategies; educational needs; and legal concerns. The appendices include scales used to assess patients with traumatic brain injuries as well as a list of national and state organizations.

Date Published:2001

No Disposable Kids

Brendtro, Larry K.


This book shows how to foster resiliency and social emotional development in rebellious children or children in conflict. The strategies are drawn from the authors' experiences with court-ordered youth. Chapters are devoted to techniques for boosting self-worth and dignity, how to form problem-solving alliances with youth, how to create a climate of mutual respect, and ways of enlisting youth in their own education and healing.
Date Published:2005

This book shows how to foster resiliency and social emotional development in rebellious children or children in conflict. The strategies are drawn from the authors' experiences with court-ordered youth. Chapters are devoted to techniques for boosting self-worth and dignity, how to form problem-solving alliances with youth, how to create a climate of mutual respect, and ways of enlisting youth in their own education and healing.

Date Published:2005

The secret code inside you : all about your DNA /

LaRocca, Rajani


Rhyming text and color illustrations introduce the concepts of cells, genetics, and DNA. Includes back matter on DNA, an experiment, and additional resources. Interest level: K-3.
Date Published:2021

Mathematics curriculum : issues, trends, and future directions : 72nd yearbook


This yearbook covers national standards, recommendations for statistics and probability in school mathematics over the past century, curriculum controversies, evidence from national assessment, curriculum alignment in an era of standards and high stakes testing, and preschool mathematics curricula. It includes an example of focused curricula through visual representations from Japanese textbooks and examples of cross-national curriculum collaboration based on realistic mathematics education. It also explores how districts choose mathematics textbooks, considerations in the review and adoption of mathematics textbooks, and myths about curriculum implementation. Additional chapters cover such topics as: technology and the teaching of mathematics, understanding teachers' strategies for supplementing textbooks, developing curricular reasoning, challenges and insights for conducting mathematics curriculum research, and the influence of curriculum on students' learning. The CD-ROM features additional readings reflecting issues and trends in the U.S. and Canada between 1843 and 1993.
Date Published:2010

This yearbook covers national standards, recommendations for statistics and probability in school mathematics over the past century, curriculum controversies, evidence from national assessment, curriculum alignment in an era of standards and high stakes testing, and preschool mathematics curricula. It includes an example of focused curricula through visual representations from Japanese textbooks and examples of cross-national curriculum collaboration based on realistic mathematics education. It also explores how districts choose mathematics textbooks, considerations in the review and adoption of mathematics textbooks, and myths about curriculum implementation. Additional chapters cover such topics as: technology and the teaching of mathematics, understanding teachers' strategies for supplementing textbooks, developing curricular reasoning, challenges and insights for conducting mathematics curriculum research, and the influence of curriculum on students' learning. The CD-ROM features additional readings reflecting issues and trends in the U.S. and Canada between 1843 and 1993.

Date Published:2010

SRA real math building block teacher's edition, PreK


Includes background information and strategies. For examination purposes only.
Date Published:2007

Math in practice: teaching kindergarten math

Myers, Marcy


Includes Guide for Teachers. The Math in Practice series can be used with any math curriculum and identifies the big ideas of both math content, math teaching, and instructional strategies. Topics: 13 kindergarten modules with foundational ideas, instructional goals, and learning progressions; ideas for instruction and assessment; identifying common misconceptions; tasks and center ideas for support and practice. Includes the Guide for Teachers which describes how to guide students into deeper math understanding; respond to challenges students face in the math curriculum; support students who are struggling, excelling, and in between.
Date Published:2016

Includes Guide for Teachers. The Math in Practice series can be used with any math curriculum and identifies the big ideas of both math content, math teaching, and instructional strategies. Topics: 13 kindergarten modules with foundational ideas, instructional goals, and learning progressions; ideas for instruction and assessment; identifying common misconceptions; tasks and center ideas for support and practice. Includes the Guide for Teachers which describes how to guide students into deeper math understanding; respond to challenges students face in the math curriculum; support students who are struggling, excelling, and in between.

Date Published:2016

Daily routines to jump-start math class, elementary: engage students, improve number sense, and practice reasoning

SanGiovanni, John J.


Includes activities to develop number sense and reasoning. Includes 20 different routines with content examples, extensions, and variations. Works with any math content or core math curriculum. Includes QR codes for video and web content.
Date Published:2020

Understanding By Design: Professional Development Workbook

McTighe, Jay


This book focuses on professional development and the practical matters of curriculum design. It will assist educators in developing curricula and assessments with a focus on developing and deepening students' understanding of important ideas. Includes: design templates, design standards, exercises and process tools, design tools, samples, and glossary.
Date Published:2004

Beams, bars, rings and mats (decodable reader)


Just Right Reader: 1st Grade Decodables series. Digraph /wh/. Meant to be used as a preview rather than regular classroom use.
Date Published:

Autism-Asperger's &sexuality: puberty and beyond

Newport, Jerry and Mary


Advise, experiences and knowledge is shared by a successful married couple with autism.
Date Published:2002

Algebra for all, green level (grade 4)

Warren, Elizabeth.


These activities for fourth grade are divided into sections on equivalence and equations, properties, patterns and functions, and representations.
Date Published:2007