Action research: Improving schools and empowering educators

Action research: Improving schools and empowering educators is a 360-page introduction to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. The book offers a close look at action research, its methods, and procedures necessary for teachers to perform it. The author discusses the importance of conducting action research as well as its applications. A detailed description of the process is examined along with a discussion of what to do with the results.

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Teaching Behavior: Managing Classrooms Through Effective Instruction

Teaching Behavior: Managing Classrooms Through Effective Instruction is a 296-page guide for teachers or textbook for post-secondary students in the education field. It offers strategies for managing classroom behaviors and self-assessment checklists and discussion questions for teacher book-study groups. Each chapter also offers an online video module to further the instruction. The book is broken out into three sections: Behavior and Instruction, The Daily Grind, and Individualized Strategies. The first section includes 5 chapters on effective teaching and assessing student behavior, the second offers discussion of classroom arrangement and planning, and the third section assessing the effectiveness of instruction and responding to escalation.

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Your Classroom Guide to Special Education Law

Your Classroom Guide to Special Education Law has 176 pages of  jargon-free information on the basic principles and laws that govern education. Written by a professor who teaches courses on special education law, emotional and behavior disorders, and diverse learners, this book offers teachers a quick guide to turn to when heavy legal tomes are too much.

The book begins by discussing important laws such as Section 504 and IDEA 2004, defining disability, and the legal responsibilities of IEP team members. It goes on to discuss the parent-educator partnership and creating a collaborative academic team. Basic principles of an IEP covered along with the important aspect of teachers supervising and protecting students from harm while in their care. Documentation and the rules of record keeping are highlighted in addition to using a team approach when making decisions. Critical court cases are used to provide insight into how to interpret the law and each chapter includes two court cases to show the difference between exemplary practices as opposed to common mistakes that are sometimes made.

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The teacher's pocket guide for positive behavior support: Targeted classroom solutions

The teacher's pocket guide for positive behavior support: Targeted classroom solutions has 160 pages of targeted behavior intervention and support. The authors have a combined 50 years of experience training teachers in positive behavior support in the classroom and offer this tier II training that can be used when Tier I support isn't working.

The authors include advice, strategies, and case studies along with anecdotes that can help teachers answer questions such as how targeted supports differ from universal supports, how targeted supports are used in the classroom, how to adjust targeted supports based on student progress, and more. At the end of each chapter is a conclusion that pulls together ideas learned so far.

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The survival guide for new special education teachers

"Since its first publication, The Survival Guide for New Special Education Teachers has helped novice teachers bridge the gap between training and classroom practice. This all-new edition, updated to reflect the needs and priorities of 21st-century special educators, offers practical guidance on such topics as roles and responsibilities, school environment and culture, classroom organization and management, collaboration with other professionals, and individual professional development." -publisher

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The power of peers in the classroom: Enhancing learning and social skills

The power of peers in the classroom: Enhancing learning and social skills highlights expert contributors who describe evidence-based approaches for peer-assisted instructional strategies in grades K-12. Subjects discussed are reading, writing, math, and other content areas, as well as social competence and executive functioning. Sample lessons and more than a dozen reproducible tools are provided.

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Managing the cycle of acting-out behavior in the classroom

Got students who are acting-out in the classroom? Managing the cycle of acting-out behavior in the classroom can help. This latest edition of the book offers insights into new research in applied behavior analysis, tips on instruction, and functional behavioral assessment to help you with interventions. It includes case studies, checklists, tools, and more.

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15 positive behavior strategies to increase academic success

Behavioral problems can disrupt learning for the whole classroom if not managed properly, which is often a matter of frustrating trial and error. 15 positive behavior strategies to increase academic success is a must-have guide that delivers a set of fifteen practical intervention techniques that can be applied to virtually any situation in both pull-out and inclusive classrooms.

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Successfully Including Students with Special Needs in the Classroom

Looking for a webinar that addresses including students with special needs in the classroom? On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CST, Lekotek will sponsor a webinar presented by Nicole Eredics. Nicole is an Elementary Educator who spent over 15 years working in an inclusive school system in British Columbia, Canada, teaching children with various moderate to severe intellectual, physical and emotional abilities in her fully inclusive classrooms.

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The differentiated classroom: Responding to the needs of all learners

Looking for a theoretical basis of differentiated instruction? In The differentiated classroom: Responding to the needs of all learners, the author explores the variables of curriculum and learning environment, shares dozens of instructional strategies, and then goes inside elementary and secondary classrooms in nearly all subject areas to illustrate how real teachers are applying differentiation principles and strategies to respond to the needs of all learners.

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Data Driven Differentiation in the Standards-Based Classroom

Looking for a user-friendly guide to techniques for data-gathering for use with differentiated instruction? Data driven differentiation in the standards-based classroom provides step-by-step guidance on gathering data to improve classroom dynamics, pinpoint student learning styles, adjust lessons for different learners, and inform diagnostic teaching and assessment. -from the book description

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10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom

Looking for help with managing your special education classroom? 10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom can help. Find real-world examples and learn about strategies to:

• Support all students with special needs,  including those with more severe disabilities
• Organize your classroom, materials, and staff and student schedules
• Plan and assess standards-based lessons, annual IEP’s, behavioral interventions, and more
• Foster parent communication and staff collaboration

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Differentiated instructional strategies: One size doesn't fit all

Differentiated instructional strategies: One size doesn't fit all brings you new strategies and updates in this third edition to make implementing differentiating instruction in your classroom quick and easy. It offers a Common Core lesson-planning template along with a larger format to make the book and its strategies immediately usable.

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Recognize and Respond to Emotional and Behavioral Issues in the classroom

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"Teachers are often the first to identify a child's emotional or behavioral problems but with limited time and resources, knowing how to start helping can be a tough challenge. [Recognize and respond to emotional and behavioral issues in the classroom: A teacher's guide] puts key psychological principles and straightforward, classroom-ready strategies at every K 12 teacher's fingertips, they can provide effective supports for students, keep families involved, and recognize when outside help is needed."

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Life Beyond the Classroom: Transition Strategies for Young People with Disabilities

From the book description:
"For more than two decades, the trusted Life Beyond the Classroom text has shaped the practices of thousands of professionals helping students make a smooth transition from school to adulthood. Now this landmark textbook is in a NEW fifth edition updated with the cutting-edge information professionals need in today's changing world, as young people with disabilities face unprecedented financial, family, employment, and educational challenges."

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The Special Educator's Toolkit

Are you an overwhelmed special educator? Reduce your stress and support student success with this practical toolkit for whole-classroom organization. The Special Educator's Toolkit: Everything You Need to Organize, Manage, & Monitor Your Classroom is great for special educators in any K-12 setting. This book-and-CD set will help teachers expertly manage everything, from schedules and paperwork to student supports and behavior plans. Every special educator, from the first-year teacher setting up a new classroom to the seasoned veteran who wants a down-to-earth guide to current best practices, will come away empowered and motivated to get and stay organized and they'll see the positive results year after year in their classrooms.

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Classroom assessment

Looking for a little help with assessment results? Try Classroom Assessment for Students in Special and General Education. Using a variety of assessment procedures and directions on how to construct, administer, score, interpret, graph, monitor, write, and report assessment results, this book can help you gain the skills necessary to use assessment in understanding the needs of each student in general and special education classrooms.

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Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

Now in its third edition, Multiple intelligences in the classroom offers information about the well-known seven intelligences--linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. It also offers, however, information on the eighth intelligence (the naturalist), a chapter on a possible ninth intelligence (the existential), and updated information and resources throughout. With dozens of practical tips, strategies, and examples from real schools and districts, this book could be a real asset to educators.

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New book on assessment

Just what is "formative" assessment? How is formative assessment designed? How are grades assigned using this type of assessment? Answers to these questions and more can be found in Robert Marzano's new book, Formative assessment & standards-based grading. Marzano explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Examples of teachers applying formative assessment in their classrooms are detailed.

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Prevent, Teach, Reinforce

Prevent, teach reinforce: the school-based model of individualized positive behavior support by Glen Dunlap, et al., is a short textbook on behavior management for teachers of K-8 classrooms. The book focuses on functional assessment, behavior intervention plans, and evaluation. An included CD-ROM contains printable forms, Behavior Support Plan templates, and other tools to implement the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce model.

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