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How can high schools teach academic content and the critical skills students need to navigate life beyond the classroom? Fitting it all into one curriculum can be a challenge. This book helps you juggle it all, ensuring personalised, student-centred instruction that prepares students with and without disabilities for success.
A Guide to Educational Planning for Students with Disabilities
COACH is better than ever! Now with practical updates based on user feedback and a new streamlined format for easier use, the third edition of this bestselling guide can be the key to effective educational planning for students with intensive special education needs in inclusion-oriented schools.
A children's alphabet book focusing on railroads, one of the most common interest of children with autism spectrum disorders. It presents many reading levels, with vocabulary ranging from basic concepts (bridge) to special train jargon (idler car, unit train).
Contains 10 days of activities linked to the popular storybook The Kissing Hand. This module is part of an innovative, play-based curriculum for children 3-6 years of age that promotes general development and boosts cognitive, sensorimotor, communication/language, social, and emerging literacy skills.
The physical environment of a classroom has a powerful impact on learning and well-being—especially for students who have experienced trauma. Part of an essential new series of laminated quick guides for educators, this is your concise, practical introduction to creating a safe and supportive physical environment using a trauma-informed lens.
Using Inclusion as a Framework to Build Equity and Support All Students
As schools reopen their doors and students return to the classroom, what will the "new normal" of special education look like? The pandemic exposed educational inequities and areas of urgent need-and now, schools have a unique opportunity to press pause and reimagine their practices.
Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is the best way to teach all students effectively and break down barriers to learning - but how can busy teachers get started with UDL right now? Find the answers in the second edition of this bestselling, teacher-trusted primer, created by internationally recognised UDL expert Loui Lord Nelson.
An in-depth, easy-to-use tool, the two-part SEAM(TM) assessment reveals detailed qualitative information on young children's social-emotional competence?and identifies their caregivers? strengths and areas of need.