Teaching Learners with Mild Disabilities Integrating Research and Practice

by Meese, Ruth Lyn

• ISBN13: 9780534578527
• ISBN10: 0534578527
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-03
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This very applied book introduces preservice readers to best practices for teaching learners with mild disabilities. The authors illustrate interactions among regular teachers, special education teachers and students with mild disabilities through the use of eight hypothetical case studies of students and teachers.

Table of Contents

Part One Foundations For Instruction	1	(62)
The Learners and Their Teachers	2	(18)
Learners with Mild Disabilities	20	(20)
Approaches to Teaching Learners with Mild Disabilities	40	(23)
Part Two Organizing for Instruction	63	(130)
Communicating for Student Success	64	(30)
Managing the Classroom Environment	94	(34)
Assessing Student Progress	128	(34)
Planning for Successful Instruction	162	(31)
Part Three Providing Instruction	193	(324)
Effective Teacher Behaviors	194	(24)
Student-Mediated Learning	218	(30)
Oral Language Instruction	248	(24)
Reading Instruction	272	(56)
Written Language Instruction	328	(38)
Mathematics Instruction	366	(60)
Content Instruction in the Inclusive Classroom	426	(54)
Instruction in Social and Independent Living Skills	480	(37)
Appendix A Detailed Information on the Students	517	(40)
Appendix B Materials and Organizations	557