401 Practical Adaptations for Every Classroom

by Johns, Beverley Holden

• ISBN13: 9781632205391
• ISBN10: 1632205394
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-03-17
• Publisher: Skyhorse Pub Co Inc

Summary

Award-winning educator Beverley Holden Johns offers a valuable collection of modifications and accommodations for students with special needs. Busy teachers can put these proven strategies to use immediately with minimal time and expense.

Here Beverly Holden Johns shares her extensive experience in inclusive settings through concise "3 x 5 card" summaries and relevant examples, in concert with:

• Hundreds of adaptations for lectures, worksheets, vocabulary instruction, student response, testing, and the classroom environment
• Practical coverage of the legal basis for adaptations, including current updates
• The role of adaptations in Individualized Education Programs

This book is invaluable for teachers who are new to working with students with special needs. All teachers will gain fresh ideas and discover how applying adaptations can snowball into increased student engagement and optimized learning.

Author Biography

Beverley Holden Johns brings her thirty-five years of experience working with students with learning disabilities and/or behavioral disorders within the public schools to her current post as learning and behavior consultant and an adjunct instructor for MacMurray College, where she teaches the course on special education law, adaptations for the general education classroom, and EBD.