More Special Education Teaching Ideas:
- Special Education Laws and Regulations
- Special Education Law Part II: How Section 504 Can Work for You
- Special Education Law Part III: The Americans With Disabilities Act
- We Sing Silly (Math) Songs
- Literature Heroes for Students With Disabilities
- 5 Tips for Successful Field Trips
- Writing IEP Goals
Articles
How Hard Can This Be?
Describes the F.A.T. workshop, a professional workshop that helps teachers see from the perspective of learning disabled students by deliberately inducing frustration.
Saving James
Advocates the Reading Recovery program and talks about teachers learning from the Reading Recovery model. Also discusses reading and verbal prompts that affect fluency.
Girls and ADHD: Are You Missing the Signs?
Special Needs: A United Front
Dr. Stanley Greenspan has formed an interdisciplinary council to join together professionals who care for children with special needs. This council will allow professionals in various disciplines to exchange clinical information. Here, he answers questions about the new group, in Scholastic Early Childhood Today.
Meeting Learning Challenges: Working With Children Labeled With Mental Retardation
Each child who is labeled "mentally retarded" has his or her own unique profile of strengths and weaknesses. Greenspan discusses how child care workers should handle children with special needs.
Meeting Learning Challenges: Creating an Inclusive Classroom
Greenspan offers preschool teachers tips on how help children with and without special needs master the functional-emotional capacities, including the ability to attend, relate, problem-solve and develop and express creative ideas.
Meeting Learning Challenges: Working With the Child Who Has Cerebral Palsy
A preschool teacher is concerned about a boy in her class who has cerebral palsy. Her main concerns are his social limitations and his sad, lost looks. Greenspan offers suggestions for drawing on the child's capabilities and makes concrete suggestions, in Scholastic Early Childhood Today.
10 Common Challenges and Best Practices for Teaching Students With ADHD
- Subjects:Classroom Management, Special Education, Educational Standards
