Special Education category: 3739 books

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by Dr. Jane Coryell
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012

Teaching Art History The fun Way ~ It's a Scream is a handbook for teaching art history using games, food, music, and clothing as memory aids and interest catchers. Chronologically, from pre-historic to modern times, historical highlights are dovetailed with studio work. For instance, the Renaissance...
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Transition by Design

Improving Equity and Outcomes for Adolescents with Disabilities

by Audrey A. Trainor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Transitions to adulthood for adolescents with disabilities are as diverse as the adolescents themselves. While there have been marked improvements for students with disabilities, there is still concern that employment education and independent living outcomes are not equitable across groups of students....
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Blended Learning Environments for Adults

Evaluations and Frameworks

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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

There is a general notion that adult education literature generally supports the idea that teaching adults should be approached in a different way than teaching children. Adult learners include working adults with family responsibilities, older workers who may not feel confident about returning to...
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by Tom Eckerd
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

Prepping: Survival Basics In this book we lay the foundations for the average person to start prepping and to understand the survival basics. We cover some of the more critical aspects of prepping to help expedite the probability of your survival. This book will help jump start your education...
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Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness

A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything

by Deborah Schoeberlein David, MEd, Suki Sheth
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009

Author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers the practical application of mindfulness in education. By showing teachers how to tune into what's happening, inside and around them, she offers fresh, straightforward approaches to training attention and generating caring both in and outside of the classroom....
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You Wanna Race?

An Entry-Level Guide to Motorsports

by Joe Scarbrough
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

Auto racing is one of the greatest adrenaline-filled sports in the world. As a result, many adventure seekers are drawn to the excitement that surrounds motorsports. Still, just one percent of the population will ever have the opportunity, dedication, and courage to climb into the cockpit of a race...
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Disability, Avoidance and the Academy

Challenging Resistance

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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies...
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Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability

Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies

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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014

Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately...
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Gifted and Talented Learners

Creating a Policy for Inclusion

by Barry Hymer, Deborah Michel
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

This book sets out the educational challenges, benefits and possibilities of embracing a truly inclusive approach to gifted and talented education and provides a framework for a school to create its own inclusive policy in this area of need. Calling on international research, current educational...
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Finding John Galt

People, Politics, and Practice in Gifted Education

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

This volume covers significant highlights in the history of gifted education, addressing significant contributors to the field, important political and policy concerns, and programs and practices of note. The book’s scope is holistic, using Ayn Rand’s concept of “men [and women] of the mind”...
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Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations

Using values-based education to promote positive learning

by Gill Ellis, Nicola S. Morgan, Ken Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community? How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened? How can families help schools to improve behaviour in their children, both at home and at school? Using a tried...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012

In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing. This volume introduces the problem of dogmatism broadly, explores...
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Tales from the Table

Lovaas/ABA Intervention with Children on the Autistic Spectrum

by Margaret Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007

Tales from the Table is a practitioner's account of the successes and limitations of using Lovaas/ABA home education with five young boys on the autistic spectrum. The abilities and skills of these children before, during and after intervention are documented with a focus on the realities of...
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I, Monster

Positive Ways of Working with Challenging Teens Through Understanding the Adolescent Within Us

by David Taransaud
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

I, Monster is a resource for all professionals in health and education who work with challenging young people. The book aims to explain the issues behind challenging behaviour, to enable empathy, and to facilitate a more productive therapeutic relationship between the health/education professional...
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