Education

Describes the characteristics of students with mild disabilities, and clearly explains the best teaching practices for inclusive education, behavior management, social skill instruction, and modifying classroom instruction for students with mild disabilities, including learning disabilities, mild intellectual disabilities and emotional disturbance.

This new edition includes an elaboration of Response to Intervention (RTI), which since the last edition has become a focal point of research and literature among general and special educators.  This is a dynamic progression of cooperation between general and special education - primarily due to changes in the federal law regarding how students with learning disabilities are identified. 

Major attention given to such topics as collaboration between special and general educators, Response to Intervention (RTI),  meta-cognitive strategies, positive behavioral supports, functional behavioral assessment, classroom management, and instructional accommodations. 

Includes a chapter on family members that highlights strategies for enhancing the school-family partnership (Ch.11).

Appendices include: chronological history of special education, drug side effects, analysis of frequently used tests, and a sample IEP (Individualized Education Program)

Book has been re-organized to present the overview of mild disabilities earlier in the book (now chapter 2).  This chapter includes new information on Asperger’s Syndrome, pervasive developmental delay and non-verbal learning disabilities, as well as expanded information on ADHD.

Response To Intervention (RTI).  New information on RTI and how it creates opportunities for general education reading specialists to establish preventive reading programs for at-risk students.  Included is specific scientifically based reading strategies identified by the National Institute for Literacy (Chapter 5)

Contains updated information on IDEA ’04 and No Child Left Behind with an emphasis on how these laws affect teaching, assessing and managing the behavior of students with mild disabilities

New information on using technology with students with mild disabilities.

Expanded sections on teaching approaches including differentiated instruction, graphic organizers, multiple intelligence, and testing accommodations.

A new feature occurs in every chapter called “Speedbumps.” Speedbumps break up lengthy sections of text with concise comments, humor or questions to keep reader interest.  There are approximately 10 speedbumps interspersed throughout each chapter.

Includes discussion of new guidelines established by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for identification of students with mild intellectual disabilities.  Throughout the text new terminology, "students with mild intellectual disabilities" is used insted of the term,  "mild mental retardation."

Updated demographics and statistics on students with mild intellectual disabilities

Academics expanded to include Put Reading First research.  This research identifies 5 validated scientific reading interventions:  phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency instruction, vocabulary instruction, and text comprehension instruction (Chapter 3)

The terminology"emotional disturbance" used throughout the text in place of "emotional/behavioral disorders;" reflects the federal definition of emotional disturbance in IDEA

New information about ADHD including how schools implement 504 plans for students with ADHD (Chapter two)

 New section on sociometrics and sociograms (Chapter 10)

New section onassistive technology; additional information about story grammar marker; edited technology section (chapter 7)

New information regarding making accommodations in academic areas: reading, language arts, mathematics (chapter 8)

Updated information regarding federal programs to support families (Chapter 11)

Chapter One

Foundations of Special Education

Chapter Outline

Roots of Special Education

Diversity

Ending Handicappism

        Litigation and Legislation

Federal Laws

        Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

        No Child Left Behind Act

Who Receives Special Education?

        Physical/Sensory Disabilities

        Cognitive Disabilities

        Academic Disabilities

        Communication Disabilities

        Emotional Disabilities

How Many Students Receive Special Education?

Students with Mild Disabilities

        Learning Disability

        Mild Intellectual Disability

        Emotional Disability

Labeling

        Advantages of Labeling

        Disadvantages of Labeling

What to Teach Students

        Individual Education Plan

Where to Teach Students

How to Teach Studens

Summary

Activity

Chapter Two

Students with Mild Disabilities

Chapter Outline

Cross Categorical Characteristics

          Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

          Pervasive Developmental Disorder

          Asperger’s Syndrome

          Nonverbal Learning Disability

Causes of Mild Disabilities

          Organic Causes

          Environmental Causes

At-Risk Populations

Due Process Procedures

          Prerefferal

          Referral

          Evaluation

          Response to Intervention      

Summary

Activities

Chapter Three

Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter Outline

Foundations

          Lloyd Dunn

          Alfred Binet

          History of Intelligence Testing

Definition and Identification

          The Six Hour Retarded Child

          Types of Intellectual Disabilities

          Prevalence

Causes of Mild Intellectual Disabilities

          Organic Causes

          Environmental Causes

Disproportionate Representation of Minorities

Characteristics

          Cognitive

          Mental Processing

          Academics

          Communciation

          Perceptual/Motor

          Social/Adaptive

Teaching Approaches

          Instructions

          Thinking Skills

          Reading

          Functional Skills

          Adaptive Behavior

          Daily Living Skills

Summary

Activities

Chapter Four

Students with Emotional Disturbance

Chapter Outline

Foundations

          Historical Perspective

Definition and Identification

          Issues and Concerns

          Levels of Emotional Disturbance

Prevalence of Emotional Disturbance

          Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder         

Causes

          Biophysical

          Psychodynamic

          Psychoeducational

          Behavioral

Disturbed or Disturbing

Ecological Model

Characteristics

          Cognitive

          Achievement

          Communication

          Social Adaptive

Positive Behavior Support

          Integration of Treatment Approaches

Cultural Diversity

Summary

Activities

Chapter Five

Students with Learning Disabilities

Chapter Outline

Foundations

          Early Research

          Brain Research

Causes of Learning Disabilities

Definition and Identification

Prevalence

Characteristics

          Cognitive

          Mental Processing

          Academics

          Communication

          Perceptual-Motor

          Social/Adaptive

Teaching Approaches

          Psychological Model

          Behavioral Model

          Cognitive Model

          Young Adults

Summary

Activities

Chapter Six

The Inclusive Classroom

Chapter Outline

Least Restrictive Environment

          Court Cases

          Organizing Inclusion Programs

Collaboration

          Characteristics of Collaboration

Inclusion Models

          Consulting Teacher

          Co-Teacher

          Co-Teaching Plan

          Co-Teaching Tips

Collaborative Instruction

          Peer Tutoring

          Cooperative Learning

Common Ground

          Teacher Expectations

          Classroom Organization

          Standardized Tests

Summary

Activities

Chapter Seven

Learning and Teaching

Chapter Outline

Today’s Schools

          Student Perception

          Child and Adolescent Development

Student Centered Learning

          Brain-Compatible Instruction

          Emotions and Learning

          Multiple Intelligence

Instructional Models

          Direct Instruction

          Multi-Sensory Instruction

          Differentiated Instruction

          Task Analysis

          Precision Teaching

          Learning Strategies

Instructional Scaffolds

Technology

          Assistive Technology

Functional Curriculum

Comprehensive Teaching

Summary

Activities

Chapter Eight

Instructing Students with Mild Disabilities

Chapter Outline

Best Teaching Practices

          Time Management

          Academic Learning Time

          Selecting Instructional Materials

          Teacher and Student Communication
          Graphic Organizers

          Student Organization

          Student Performance

Instructional Accommodations, Modifications, and Strategies

          Accommodations Using Technology

          Testing and Grading Accommodations

          Test Taking Skills

          Testing Accommodations

          Curriculum Based Assessment

The Educator’s Tool Kit

Summary

Activities

Chapter Nine

Classroom Management

Chapter Outline

Discipline:  An Overview

Proactive Discipline

          Teacher Values

          Teacher Needs

          Know Your Students

          Classroom Organization

Positive Behavior Support

          Functional Behavior Assessment

Managing Student Behavior

          Behavior Modification

          Nonverbal Interventions

          Verbal Inteventions

Managing Conflict Situations

          Life Space Crisis Intervention

          Discipline and IDEA

Punishment

Theory into Practice

Summary

Activities

Chapter Ten

Teaching Social Skills

Chapter Outline

Emotional Intelligence

Teaching Social Skills

          Selecting A Curriculum

A Sample Social Skills Curriculum

          Impulse Control

          Assessment of Social Reality

          Managing Group Situations

          Stress Management

          Solving Social Problems

Character Education

Moral Development

Sociometrics

A Functional Model for Problem Behavior

Summary

Activities

Chapter Eleven

Building Family Partnerships

Chapter Outline

America’s Children

Family Members and Teachers:  Valuable Partners

Understanding Families

          Feelings

          Family Unit

Support for Families

          Emotional Support

          Information

          Government Programs

Teacher-Family Communication

          Conference

          Telephone

          Written

          Technology

IEP Meeting

Summary

Activities    

Mild / Moderate Disabilities - Methods (Special Education)

Describes the characteristics of students with mild disabilities, and clearly explains the best teaching practices for inclusive education, behavior management, social skill instruction, and modifying classroom instruction for students with mild disabilities.

• Characteristics of and Strategies for Teaching Students with Mild Disabilities, 5/E
  Henley, Ramsey & Algozzine
  © 2006 | Merrill | Paper; 496 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205457649 | ISBN-13: 9780205457649
  Brief Description
  

This book describes the characteristics of students with mild disabilities while clearly explaining the best teaching practices for inclusive education, behavior management and social skill instruction. In this completely up-to-date resource the authors provide strategies for of modifying classroom instruction for students with mild disabilities, including learning disabilities, mild intellectual disabilities, and emotional disturbance.

Highlights of the New Edition:

• Book has been re-organized to present the overview of mild disabilities earlier in the book (now chapter 2).  This chapter includes new information on Asperger’s Syndrome, pervasive developmental delay and non-verbal learning disabilities, as well as expanded information on ADHD.
• Response To Intervention (RTI).  New information on RTI and how it creates opportunities for general education reading specialists to establish preventive reading programs for at-risk students.  Included is specific scientifically based reading strategies identified by the National Institute for Literacy (Chapter 5).
• New information on using technology with students with mild disabilities.
• A new feature occurs in every chapter called “Speedbumps.” Speedbumps break up lengthy sections of text with concise comments, humor or questions to keep reader interest.  There are approximately 10 speedbumps interspersed throughout each chapter.
• Includes discussion of new guidelines established by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for identification of students with mild intellectual disabilities.  Throughout the text new terminology--"students with mild intellectual disabilities"--is used insted of the term "mild mental retardation."

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• Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
  Allyn & Bacon
  © 2001 | Merrill | CD-ROM Only | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205319602 | ISBN-13: 9780205319602
  URL: http://www.ablongman.com/dma
  
  
  
• CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
  Allyn & Bacon & Longman
  © 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205531709 | ISBN-13: 9780205531707
  
  
  
• Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
  Southern Poverty Law Center
  © 2001 | Prentice Hall | Paper | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130284580 | ISBN-13: 9780130284587
  
  
  

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• Characteristics of and Strategies for Teaching Students with Mild Disabilities, CourseSmart eTextbook, 6/E
  Henley, Algozzine & Ramsey
  © 2009 | Merrill | Electronic Book; 456 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137147228 | ISBN-13: 9780137147229
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Describes the characteristics of students with mild disabilities, and clearly explains the best teaching practices for inclusive education, behavior management, social skill instruction, and modifying classroom instruction for students with mild disabilities, including learning disabilities, mild intellectual disabilities and emotional disturbance.

 

This new edition includes an elaboration of Response to Intervention (RTI), which since the last edition has become a focal point of research and literature among general and special educators.  This is a dynamic progression of cooperation between general and special education - primarily due to changes in the federal law regarding how students with learning disabilities are identified. 

• Characteristics of and Strategies for Teaching Students with Mild Disabilities, 6/E
  Henley, Algozzine & Ramsey
  © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 456 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205608388 | ISBN-13: 9780205608386
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Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers, Eighth Edition, gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today's rich, multicultural classroom, based on the authors' 30 years of research and experience in more than 500 classrooms.

 

This best-selling text helps teachers plan, implement, and develop the most basic classroom management tasks to build a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective or new elementary-level teacher, the text's content is ready to be applied in a classroom setting. The text addresses the planning decisions teachers must make, including arranging the physical space; creating a positive climate; establishing expectations, rules, and procedures; planning and conducting instruction; encouraging appropriate behavior; addressing problem behavior; and using good communication skills, with particular attention paid to the growth of diverse and inclusive classrooms. All examples, checklists, case studies, and group activities are designed for the elementary level.
• Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers (Book alone), 8/E
  Evertson & Emmer
  © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 288 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205578624 | ISBN-13: 9780205578627
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Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers, Eighth Edition, gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today's rich, multicultural classroom, based on the authors' 30 years of research and experience in more than 500 classrooms.

 

This best-selling text helps teachers plan, implement, and develop the most basic classroom management tasks to build a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective or new elementary-level teacher, the text's content is ready to be applied in a classroom setting. The text addresses the planning decisions teachers must make, including arranging the physical space; creating a positive climate; establishing expectations, rules, and procedures; planning and conducting instruction; encouraging appropriate behavior; addressing problem behavior; and using good communication skills, with particular attention paid to the growth of diverse and inclusive classrooms. All examples, checklists, case studies, and group activities are designed for the elementary level.
• Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers (with MyEducationLab), 8/E
  Evertson & Emmer
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 288 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205616119 | ISBN-13: 9780205616114
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Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers, Eighth Edition, gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today's rich, multicultural classroom, based on the authors' many years of research and experience in more than 500 classrooms.

 

This best-selling text helps teachers plan, implement and develop the most basic classroom management tasks to develop a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective or new middle and high school-level teacher, the text's content is ready to be applied in a classroom setting. The authors address the planning decisions teachers must make, including arranging the physical space, creating a positive climate, establishing expectations, rules and procedures, planning and conducting instruction, encouraging appropriate behavior, addressing problem behavior, and using good communication skills, with particular attention paid to the growth of diverse and inclusive classrooms. All examples, checklists, case studies, and group activities are designed for the secondary level.

 

• Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers (Book alone), 8/E
  Emmer & Evertson
  © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 256 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205578608 | ISBN-13: 9780205578603
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Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers, Eighth Edition, gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today's rich, multicultural classroom, based on the authors' many years of research and experience in more than 500 classrooms.

 

This best-selling text helps teachers plan, implement and develop the most basic classroom management tasks to develop a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective or new middle and high school-level teacher, the text's content is ready to be applied in a classroom setting. The authors address the planning decisions teachers must make, including arranging the physical space, creating a positive climate, establishing expectations, rules and procedures, planning and conducting instruction, encouraging appropriate behavior, addressing problem behavior, and using good communication skills, with particular attention paid to the growth of diverse and inclusive classrooms. All examples, checklists, case studies, and group activities are designed for the secondary level.

• Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers (with MyEducationLab), 8/E
  Emmer & Evertson
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 256 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205643175 | ISBN-13: 9780205643172
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The eleventh edition of this best-selling text does an excellent job presenting broad, foundational content on the issues and the field of early childhood education.  It is known for its clear presentation, voices of professionals features, and its strong coverage of development in its age-specific chapters.  It also presents the comprehensive coverage that most courses require on families, diversity, children with special needs, theories, programs, and technology.  Its coverage of professionalism has been woven through the book for several editions and is exceptionally strong. Key changes to this edition include integrated video clips and a robust online course using MyEducationLab resources, new content on Accomodating Diverse Learners, and additional curriculum and standards content in the age-specific chapters. It is now the Intro to ECE text with the strongest coverage of special needs on the market.
• Early Childhood Education Today (with MyEducationLab), 11/E
  Morrison
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  ISBN-10: 0135035325 | ISBN-13: 9780135035320
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This proven K-3 literacy methods text models explicit instruction as a vehicle for developing reading and writing skills in primary grade students.  The authors rely on both recent research and personal experience, sharing classroom-proven lesson plans, samples of student work, and examples from the classroom to ground and apply each chapter's content.  By modeling explicit instruction and providing the tools and media you need to implement the approach in your classroom, Early Literacy Instruction prepares you for success in your primary classroom.
• Early Literacy Instruction: Teaching Reading and Writing in Today's Primary Grades (with MyEducationLab), 2/E
  Smith & Read
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 384 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135035287 | ISBN-13: 9780135035283
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The Ninth Edition of this popular text from renowned educational psychologist Robert Slavin translates theory into practices that teachers can use in their classrooms with a further inquiry into the concept of intentionality and a thorough integration of standards. This edition highlights current issues and emerging trends in the field of educational psychology.

 

This edition continues to have in-depth, practical coverage with a focus on the intentional teacher by presenting up-to-the-minute research that a reflective, intentional teacher can apply. An “intentional teacher,” according to Slavin, is one who constantly reflects on his or her practice and makes instructional decisions based on a clear conception of how these practices affect students. To help readers become “intentional teachers,” the author offers a set of questions to guide them and models best practices through classroom examples.

 

Firmly rooted in research, up-to-date theory, and classroom-tested applications, Educational Psychology prepares teachers as no other text does. It teaches them to think about how students develop and learn, to make decisions before and during instruction, and to consider what constitutes evidence that their students are learning and succeeding.

Slavin's Ed Psych takes a serious look at pertinent research and focuses on what works and how a reflective, intentional teacher can apply it in the classroom. Reflective questions, vignettes, self-checks and other pedagogy challenge students to think about and make decisions that drive successful instruction. The new edition builds on these established features and adds an emphasis on media effects on Learning, NCLB and the Achievement Gap, Neuroscience, and more interactive and engaged learning opportunities for students.

 

This edition includes a new focus on reflection, new cases, sections on brain research, programs for language minority students, technology, No Child Left Behind, and after school and summer school programs.   It contains new critiques of assessment and accountability strategies and a substantially updated treatment of programming for students with special needs.

• Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice (Book alone), 9/E
  Slavin
  © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 608 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205592007 | ISBN-13: 9780205592005
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The Ninth Edition of this popular text from renowned educational psychologist Robert Slavin translates theory into practices that teachers can use in their classrooms with a further inquiry into the concept of intentionality and a thorough integration of standards. This edition highlights current issues and emerging trends in the field of educational psychology.

 

This edition continues to have in-depth, practical coverage with a focus on the intentional teacher by presenting up-to-the-minute research that a reflective, intentional teacher can apply. An “intentional teacher,” according to Slavin, is one who constantly reflects on his or her practice and makes instructional decisions based on a clear conception of how these practices affect students. To help readers become “intentional teachers,” the author offers a set of questions to guide them and models best practices through classroom examples.

 

Firmly rooted in research, up-to-date theory, and classroom-tested applications, Educational Psychology prepares teachers as no other text does. It teaches them to think about how students develop and learn, to make decisions before and during instruction, and to consider what constitutes evidence that their students are learning and succeeding.

Slavin's Ed Psych takes a serious look at pertinent research and focuses on what works and how a reflective, intentional teacher can apply it in the classroom. Reflective questions, vignettes, self-checks and other pedagogy challenge students to think about and make decisions that drive successful instruction. The new edition builds on these established features and adds an emphasis on media effects on Learning, NCLB and the Achievement Gap, Neuroscience, and more interactive and engaged learning opportunities for students.

 

This edition includes a new focus on reflection, new cases, sections on brain research, programs for language minority students, technology, No Child Left Behind, and after school and summer school programs.   It contains new critiques of assessment and accountability strategies and a substantially updated treatment of programming for students with special needs.
• Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice (with MyEducationLab), 9/E
  Slavin
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205616127 | ISBN-13: 9780205616121
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Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications, ninth edition, is a practical text focused on the skills needed by competent consumers and producers of educational research. The ninth edition includes:

 

A clear, down-to-earth approach

 

• The accessible writing style, clear and concise explanations and humorous tone demystify the research process. (See, for example, pp. 104, 303, and 310.)
• Tasks are included throughout the text to guide students through the process of creating their own research report. (See, for example, pp. 4, 175, and 461.)
• Published research articles are now included in every research methods chapter. (See, for example, pp. 189, 226, and 392.)

Broadened coverage of qualitative research and expanded coverage of technology throughout the text including:

• A new chapter on case study research (Chapter 17)
• How to use online survey research tools (in Chapter 7) and how to use Excel to help organize and analyze data (in Chapters 12 and 13)

An integrated multimedia resource

• MyEducationalResearchLab–an online research-based learning tool–offers students an individualized Study Plan, provides instructors a set of assignable Homework and Exercises for each chapter, and provides interactive practice in evaluating and conducting research through Building Research Skills exercises. A complete list of available resources for each chapter is located in the beginning of each chapter (See, for example, pp. 65, 217, and 383).
• For more information turn to the preface or go to www.myeducationlab.com .
• Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications (Book alone), 9/E
  Gay, Mills & Airasian
  © 2009 | Merrill | Cloth; 648 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132338777 | ISBN-13: 9780132338776
  Brief Description
  
  



Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications, ninth edition, is a practical text focused on the skills needed by competent consumers and producers of educational research. The ninth edition includes:

 

A clear, down-to-earth approach

 

• The accessible writing style, clear and concise explanations and humorous tone demystify the research process. (See, for example, pp. 104, 303, and 310.)
• Tasks are included throughout the text to guide students through the process of creating their own research report. (See, for example, pp. 4, 175, and 461.)
• Published research articles are now included in every research methods chapter. (See, for example, pp. 189, 226, and 392.)

Broadened coverage of qualitative research and expanded coverage of technology throughout the text including:

• A new chapter on case study research (Chapter 17)
• How to use online survey research tools (in Chapter 7) and how to use Excel to help organize and analyze data (in Chapters 12 and 13)

An integrated multimedia resource

• MyEducationalResearchLab—an online research-based learning tool—offers students an individualized Study Plan, provides instructors a set of assignable Homework and Exercises for each chapter, and provides interactive practice in evaluating and conducting research through Building Research Skills exercises. A complete list of available resources for each chapter is located in the beginning of each chapter (See, for example, pp. 65, 217, and 383).
• For more information turn to the preface or go to www.myeducationlab.com.

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• Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications (with MyEducationLab), 9/E
  Gay, Mills & Airasian
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135035015 | ISBN-13: 9780135035016
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Designed to focus on central concerns in teaching social studies in a standards-based environment,this brief text enables teachers to successfully implement a social studies curriculum with concepts, strategies, and values relevant to elementary and middle grades. 

 

Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide, 7/e clearly presents, in a friendly tone, the essential content and methods for teaching social studies in the K-8 classroom, while reflecting on the recent trends in technology, teaching English Language Learners, and meeting the needs of diverse students. The text deals with the various social studies disciplines in a way that reflects the field’s greater focus on teaching history, geography, economics, and civic education. 

• Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide (Book alone), 7/E
  Chapin
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 352 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205593526 | ISBN-13: 9780205593521
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Designed to focus on central concerns in teaching social studies in a standards-based environment,this brief text enables teachers to successfully implement a social studies curriculum with concepts, strategies, and values relevant to elementary and middle grades. 

 

Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide, 7/e clearly presents, in a friendly tone, the essential content and methods for teaching social studies in the K-8 classroom, while reflecting on the recent trends in technology, teaching English Language Learners, and meeting the needs of diverse students. The text deals with the various social studies disciplines in a way that reflects the field’s greater focus on teaching history, geography, economics, and civic education. 

• Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide (with MyEducationLab), 7/E
  Chapin
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205641946 | ISBN-13: 9780205641949
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Engaging in the Language Arts is a new text that defines the discipline of language arts. This text emphasizes the need for teachers to draw upon the language power of students–the best language resource in their classrooms–in order to succeed in teaching to our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse student body.

 

Engaging in the Language Arts offers students a firsthand look at the language challenges teachers will face and how teachers need to identify these language possibilities and know how to make optimal use of these possibilities in their classrooms. Distinguished author team Donna Ogle and Jim Beers have crafted an ideal text for instructors seeking a focus on contemporary communication and visual literacy, using varied genre and electronic resources. Ogle and Beers present a lively narrative, clear organization, exceptional pedagogy and special features that bring the language arts to life for teachers.

 

Unlike comparable texts, Engaging in the Language Arts helps teachers ensure that students learn to use language to communicate with others, to explore ideas, and to demonstrate their learning orally and in written formats. While covering all of the basic writing processes, the text places a unique emphasis on the actual purpose behind teaching writing and also includes classroom-based assessments and activities reflecting state and national standards that provide important resources to help teachers differentiate instruction.

• Engaging in the Language Arts: Exploring the Power of Language (Book alone)
  Ogle & Beers
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205430937 | ISBN-13: 9780205430932
  Brief Description
  
  



Engaging in the Language Arts is a new text that defines the discipline of language arts. This text emphasizes the need for teachers to draw upon the language power of students—the best language resource in their classrooms—in order to succeed in teaching to our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse student body.

 

Engaging in the Language Arts offers students a firsthand look at the language challenges teachers will face and how teachers need to identify these language possibilities and know how to make optimal use of these possibilities in their classrooms. Distinguished author team Donna Ogle and Jim Beers have crafted an ideal text for instructors seeking a focus on contemporary communication and visual literacy, using varied genre and electronic resources. Ogle and Beers present a lively narrative, clear organization, exceptional pedagogy and special features that bring the language arts to life for teachers.

 

Unlike comparable texts, Engaging in the Language Arts helps teachers ensure that students learn to use language to communicate with others, to explore ideas, and to demonstrate their learning orally and in written formats. While covering all of the basic writing processes, the text places a unique emphasis on the actual purpose behind teaching writing and also includes classroom-based assessments and activities reflecting state and national standards that provide important resources to help teachers differentiate instruction.
• Engaging in the Language Arts: Exploring the Power of Language (with MyEducationLab)
  Ogle & Beers
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137147953 | ISBN-13: 9780137147953
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The first book of its kind, Essentials of Educational Psychology focuses squarely on the core concepts, principles, and underlying assumptions of the field of educational psychology–the big ideas of ed psych.  Because of this focus and the book’s exceptionally direct and clear presentation, Essentials is a 10 chapter book that can truly be covered and understood in a term.  It is a book that enables and empowers students to understand the value and essential importance of educational psychology to becoming a qualified and quality teacher.

• Essentials of Educational Psychology (Book alone), 2/E
  Ormrod
  © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 504 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135016576 | ISBN-13: 9780135016572
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The first book of its kind, Essentials of Educational Psychology focuses squarely on the core concepts, principles, and underlying assumptions of the field of educational psychology–the big ideas of ed psych.  Because of this focus and the book’s exceptionally direct and clear presentation, Essentials is a 10 chapter book that can truly be covered and understood in a term.  It is a book that enables and empowers students to understand the value and essential importance of educational psychology to becoming a qualified and quality teacher.

• Essentials of Educational Psychology (with MyEducationLab), 2/E
  Ormrod
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135035279 | ISBN-13: 9780135035276
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Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education has always been known for it's innovation, strong research base and accessibility.  The ninth edition has all of those strengths, but has a greater focus on highly effective, research-based practices that are described in a very step-by-step, applied manner.  This book is for those teachers who will be professionals in the area of special education or those who are working with students that have exceptionalities.
• Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (Book alone), 9/E
  Heward
  © 2009 | Merrill | Cloth; 656 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135144361 | ISBN-13: 9780135144367
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Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education has always been known for its innovation, strong research base and accessibility.  The ninth edition has all of those strengths, but has a greater focus on highly effective, research-based practices that are described in a very step-by-step, applied manner.  This book is for those teachers who will be professionals in the area of special education or those who are working with students that have exceptionalities.
• Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (with MyEducationLab), 9/E
  Heward
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135035295 | ISBN-13: 9780135035290
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 Exceptional Learners is an outstanding introduction to the characteristics of exceptional learners and their education, emphasizing classroom practices as well as the psychological, sociological, and medical aspects of disabilities and giftedness.  In keeping with this era of accountability, all discussions and examples of educational practices are grounded in a sound research base.

 

With over 600 new references added to the 11^th edition, the authors are committed to bringing the most current and credible perspectives to bear on the ever-increasing complexity of educating students with special needs in today’s schools.  The authors believe firmly that responsible instruction can help all students to maximize their potential, and they offer practical suggestions for ways in which educators can meet the educational needs of students with special needs and diverse abilities in collaborative environments that include families, other professionals, and the community. 

• Exceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education (with Cases for Reflection and Analysis and MyEducationLab), 11/E
  Hallahan, Kauffman & Pullen
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 656 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013606793X | ISBN-13: 9780136067931
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This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings.  Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels.  Its non-categorical approach helps teachers ensure all students’ success regardless of their specific categories of exceptionality. 

 

The new edition provides significantly updated information about IDEA and NCLB, including their impact on IEPs, and the latest ideas and information about inclusive practices in the context of contemporary public education, and the dilemmas that teachers often face in appropriately educating students with disabilities in general education settings. Unique topics include the rights of general education teachers, comprehensive treatment of assessment and evaluation, examples of accommodations for students with significant disabilities, information about gifted underachievers, functional behavior assessment and behavior plans, and how to be proactive in dealing with student behavior.

• Including Students With Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers (Book alone), 5/E
  Friend & Bursuck
  © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 592 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205571069 | ISBN-13: 9780205571062
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This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings.  Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels.  Its non-categorical approach helps teachers ensure all students’ success regardless of their specific categories of exceptionality. 

 

The new edition provides significantly updated information about IDEA and NCLB, including their impact on IEPs, and the latest ideas and information about inclusive practices in the context of contemporary public education, and the dilemmas that teachers often face in appropriately educating students with disabilities in general education settings. Unique topics include the rights of general education teachers, comprehensive treatment of assessment and evaluation, examples of accommodations for students with significant disabilities, information about gifted underachievers, functional behavior assessment and behavior plans, and how to be proactive in dealing with student behavior.
• Including Students With Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers (with MyEducationLab), 5/E
  Friend & Bursuck
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 592 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205626815 | ISBN-13: 9780205626816
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This first edition text is designed to help pre-service teachers identify and confirm certification levels for their future careers, as well as better understand the learning process across the preK-12 environment.  An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path is unique due to its approach--focusing on 12 students (a variety from all grade levels) as well as teachers and administrators.  The author not only uses these focus students, teachers, and administrators in the opening chapter scenarios, but carries them through the text as classroom examples.

 

The text is accompanied by video that includes classroom footage of the focus students and teachers.  No other introduction to teaching text does this: realistically captures students and teachers in action, includes them in the text as examples, and also includes photographs of the focus subjects.

 

The overall theme is "how are the children?", reminding readers that no matter what they do in the classroom or in their professional development, that as a teacher they must always remember the student first in all actions.

• Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (Book alone)
  Powell
  © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 544 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131192523 | ISBN-13: 9780131192522
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This first edition text is designed to help pre-service teachers identify and confirm certification levels for their future careers, as well as better understand the learning process across the preK-12 environment.  An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path is unique due to its approach--focusing on 12 students (a variety from all grade levels) as well as teachers and administrators.  The author not only uses these focus students, teachers, and administrators in the opening chapter scenarios, but carries them through the text as classroom examples.

 

The text is accompanied by video that includes classroom footage of the focus students and teachers.  No other introduction to teaching text does this: realistically captures students and teachers in action, includes them in the text as examples, and also includes photographs of the focus subjects.

 

The overall theme is "how are the children?", reminding readers that no matter what they do in the classroom or in their professional development, that as a teacher they must always remember the student first in all actions.
• Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (with MyEducationLab)
  Powell
  © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137147937 | ISBN-13: 9780137147939
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Language Arts: Patterns of Practice has long been a highly valued resource to pre-service teachers.  Built on a solid research base, this exceptionally applied and teacher-friendly text addresses all six language arts, modeling their integration into the curriculum through authentic student artifacts, classroom vignettes, and footage of master teachers in their language arts classrooms.  The seventh edition of the text, streamlined to provide a succinct, manageable model of language arts instruction, retains the rich classroom orientation, accessible writing style, and numerous features that have been the text’s hallmark, adding a sharpened focus on English Learners, deepened classroom application of the four patterns of practice, and integrated treatment of the almost limitless resources of the MyEducationLab website.  These new ideas and revisions have been crafted to help readers prepare for, plan for, and implement successful language arts instruction.   
• Language Arts: Patterns of Practice (with MyEducationLab), 7/E
  Tompkins
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 592 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137147767 | ISBN-13: 9780137147762
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This text emphasizes both constructivist and explicit strategies for teaching literacy to young children within an integrated language arts approach.

 

With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, renowned author Lesley Morrow explores literacy development as an active process between children and adults to create meaning and real purpose. The Sixth Edition presents a theoretical and research-based rationale for its contents, as well as extensive practical applications to help students grasp the scope and the complexity of early literacy development.

 

This Sixth Edition embraces integrated language arts and an interdisciplinary approach to literacy development as it addresses developing writing, reading, and oral language in the home and in school curriculum. The use of expository and narrative selections of children's literature is emphasized, as well as motivating children to become lifelong readers. This edition spends more time with strategies for preschool literacy and skill development in grades Pre-K through three. Both constructivist problem-solving teaching techniques and more explicit systematic instruction are discussed.

 

Key to this Sixth edition is the expanded coverage in the assessment chapter of the importance of assessment-guided instruction. In addition, differentiation of instruction has been made a high priority, and much more attention has been paid to dealing with children from diverse backgrounds. There are also more practical examples of how teachers can put strategies into practice than in other editions, especially with the new supplementary perforated pages that can be torn out of the book for actual use with children.

• Literacy Development in the Early Years: Helping Children Read and Write (Book alone), 6/E
  Morrow
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 560 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205593259 | ISBN-13: 9780205593255
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This text emphasizes both constructivist and explicit strategies for teaching literacy to young children within an integrated language arts approach.

 

With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, renowned author Lesley Morrow explores literacy development as an active process between children and adults to create meaning and real purpose. The Sixth Edition presents a theoretical and research-based rationale for its contents, as well as extensive practical applications to help students grasp the scope and the complexity of early literacy development.

 

This Sixth Edition embraces integrated language arts and an interdisciplinary approach to literacy development as it addresses developing writing, reading, and oral language in the home and in school curriculum. The use of expository and narrative selections of children's literature is emphasized, as well as motivating children to become lifelong readers. This edition spends more time with strategies for preschool literacy and skill development in grades Pre-K through three. Both constructivist problem-solving teaching techniques and more explicit systematic instruction are discussed.

 

Key to this Sixth edition is the expanded coverage in the assessment chapter of the importance of assessment-guided instruction. In addition, differentiation of instruction has been made a high priority, and much more attention has been paid to dealing with children from diverse backgrounds. There are also more practical examples of how teachers can put strategies into practice than in other editions, especially with the new supplementary perforated pages that can be torn out of the book for actual use with children.
• Literacy Development in the Early Years: Helping Children Read and Write (with MyEducationLab), 6/E
  Morrow
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 560 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205642632 | ISBN-13: 9780205642632
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• MYEDUCATIONLAB: Where the classroom comes to life!
  Pearson
  © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
  ISBN-10: 020562670X | ISBN-13: 9780205626700
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Research tells us that an inquiry approach to science teaching motivates and engages every type of student, helping them understand science's relevance to their lives, as well as the nature of science itself. Teaching Science as Inquiry demonstrates a manageable way for new and experienced teachers to bring inquiry successfully into the science classroom through a 2-part structure: Methods for Teaching Science as Inquiry and Activities for Teaching Science as Inquiry. The Methods portion scaffolds concepts and illustrates instructional models to help readers understand the inquiry approach to teaching.

 

With a new theme of "accountable inquiry," this leading methods text has a renewed focus on assessment (focusing on backwards planning, aligning objectives with assessments, and how to develop understanding of concepts that appear on standardized tests throughout the process of inquiry). 
• Methods for Teaching Science as Inquiry (Book alone), 10/E
  Bass, Contant & Carin
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 312 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132353296 | ISBN-13: 9780132353298
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Research tells us that an inquiry approach to science teaching motivates and engages every type of student, helping them understand science's relevance to their lives, as well as the nature of science itself. Teaching Science as Inquiry demonstrates a manageable way for new and experienced teachers to bring inquiry successfully into the science classroom through a 2-part structure: Methods for Teaching Science as Inquiry and Activities for Teaching Science as Inquiry. The Methods portion scaffolds concepts and illustrates instructional models to help readers understand the inquiry approach to teaching.

 

With a new theme of "accountable inquiry," this leading methods text has a renewed focus on assessment (focusing on backwards planning, aligning objectives with assessments, and how to develop understanding of concepts that appear on standardized tests throughout the process of inquiry).

• Methods for Teaching Science as Inquiry (with MyEducationLab), 10/E
  Bass, Contant & Carin
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 312 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137147945 | ISBN-13: 9780137147946
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Developed to address the need for a text that allows teaching fundamentals to be covered in a practical fashion, this general methods text provides complete and concise coverage of the teaching act with a focus on planning and implementing classroom instruction and assessing student achievement in an era of standards and accountability.  With an emphasis on case studies and real-life classroom scenarios and features including self-check exercises, portfolio assignments, suggested field experiences, and selected tools for teaching, this text provides students with the resources they need to master the material presented in the text.
• Methods for Teaching: Promoting Student Learning in K-12 Classrooms (with MyEducationLab), 8/E
  Jacobsen, Eggen & Kauchak
  © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 416 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135035309 | ISBN-13: 9780135035306
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Are you prepared to teach in today’s diverse classrooms? The eighth edition of this well-respected text now provides you the ability to apply what you have learned regarding multicultural education. This edition also provides real classroom video to help you relate to, understand, and celebrate eight micro-cultures that you may enc