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• Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction
• 1. Physical Arrangement of the Classroom Rationale Benefits of a Well-Designed Classroom Well-Defined Areas Clarify Student Expectations The 10-Minute Rule Arranging Your Classroom Required Areas Home Base Group Instruction Area Teacher Work Area Transition Area Student Schedule Area Work Station Technology Area Additional Areas Arts and Crafts, Eating, and Cooking Areas Personal Hygiene Sensory Area Recreation and Leisure Activity Area Getting Started Summary Real-Life Applications
• 2. Organization of Materials Rationale Organizing Classroom Materials What supplies will you need? What stays and what goes? Where will materials be located? Group by academic subject Group by frequency of use Safety considerations Organizing Student's Materials Summary Real Life Applications
• 3. Schedules Rationale The Three Types of Schedules Building a Foundation for Your Schedules Daily Classroom Schedule Creating Your Classroom Schedule Posting the Classroom Schedule Using the Daily Classroom Schedule Staff Assignment Schedule Individual Student Schedules The Importance of Symbolic Communication Forms Creating Student Schedules Student Schedule Formats and Locations Teaching Students to Use Schedules Summary Real-Life Applications
• 4. Visual Strategies Rationale What Are Visual Strategies? The Importance and Benefits of Visual Strategies Creating Visual Strategies Consider the Student's Communication Level Using Visual Strategies As Reminders Schedules Calendars Behavioral Cues Communication Supports Summary Real-Life Expectations
• 5. Behavioral Strategies Rationale Determing the Need for Behavioral Inteventions Conducting a Functional Behavior Assessment Define the Behavior Gather Information About the Behavior Review Records Conduct Interviews Collect Baseline Data Look for Patterns of Behavior Make a Hypothesis about the Function of the Behavior Identifying Behavioral Goals and Objectives Developing a Behavioral Intevention Plan Defining Consequences Meaningful Reinforcers Edibles as Reinforcers Nonedibles as Reinforcers Punishment Strategies to Change Behavior Implementing the Behavioral Intervention Plan Summary Real-Life Applications
• 6. Goals, Objectives, and Lesson Plans Rationale Legal Foundation Annual Goals and Objectives Develop a Present Level of Academic Achievement The Need for Data Collection Methods for Collecting Data Special Factors and the Individualized Education Program Write the Annual Goals and Objectives Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Elements Monitoring Student Progress: Your Grading System Summary Real-Life Applications
• 7. Instructional Strategies Rationale Instructional Considerations Age-Appropriate Materials and Activities Variety Increases Interest Sensory Needs Instructional Methods and Strategies Direct Instruction Applied Behavior Analysis Grouping Students Social Stories Having a Substitute Teacher Work Stations Station Rotation Community-Based Instruction Summary Real-Life Applications
• 8. Communication Systems and Strategies Rationale The Speech and Language Pathologist Communication Throughout the Day Teaching Social Skills The Use of Schedules and Communication Communication and Assistive Technology Communication and Behavior Summary Real-Life Applications
• 9. Communication with Parents Rationale Setting Up a System for Parent Communication Student-Generated Daily Communication to Parents Keeping Communication Meaningful and Helpful Documentation Parental Involvement Summary Real-Life Applications
• 10. Related Services and Other School Staff Rationale Important Information About Related Services Related Services Defined Who Qualifies for Related Services? Direct Versus Indirect Services Service Delivery Models Other School Staff Summary Real-Life Applications Putting It All Together Resources Glossary and Acronym Guide Forms Index.
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Your blueprint for building structure, consistency, and accountability year-round! This must-have guide provides special education teachers with a solid, workable action plan to manage the classroom and ensure student success. Learn instructional 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 Packed with real-world examples, free tools to use and share, a list of resources and a helpful glossary, this dynamic resource will inspire you, develop your teacher toolbox, and ensure your students are on the path to achievement!.
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• Understand the impetus for change
• Clarify positions and interests
• Do a task analysis (or turn interests into targets?)
• Gather data (or seize control of data?)
• Build a force field
• Frame your efforts, categorize potential actions
• Choose high impact actions
• Decide who does what
• Put together an action plan
• Encore : pitfalls to avoid.

• Framework
• Bonding
• Décor
• Motivation
• History
• Language arts
• Math and science
• Discipline
• Males
• Hip hop
• Pedagogy
• Epilogue.

Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40 per cent and 50 per cent over the first five years of teaching, this book offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face. It tackles issues of race and class.

• I. VALUES EDUCATION AND MORAL EDUCATION: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH.
• 1. A Brief History of Values Education.
• 2. An Overview of Values Education Approaches.
• 3. Comprehensive Values Education.
• 4. Implementing the Comprehensive Approach. II. 100 WAYS TO ENHANCE VALUES AND MORALITY.
• 5. Inculcating Values and Morality.
• 6. Modeling Values and Morality.
• 7. Facilitating Values and Morality.
• 8. Skills for Value Development and Moral Literacy.
• 9. Implementing a Values Education Program. References and Bibliography.
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• 1. What is the job about?
• 2. Getting organised
• 3. Knowledge
• 4. Managing
• 5. Special duties
• 6. Assessment tools
• 7. Important facts
• 8. Other useful information.
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FONT size=2, DIVTo all those teachers working in learning support, if you only buy one book this year, make it this one. FONT size=2. It is clear concise and to the point./FONT DIV/DIVFONT size=2Lyn Wright, Cluster Manager Inclusion, Failsworth School/DIV/FONT/FONT In this practical book for SENCOs lists range from the understanding the crucial role of the SENCO?' to detailed overviews of, and strategies to cope with, the common special educational needs.
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• Starters. Past and present snap
• Shop for it
• Old house, new house
• Above the land
• Under the sea
• Where do I belong?
• Mountain, river, tree, stone
• Canard, Canard, Oie!
• Musical statues
• Colour sort
• Geography. Emerging. Sensory box fire station ; Seaside exploration ; Whatever is the weather? ; Nee-Nah Nee-Nah ; The shop ; Room hunt ; Move me ; Find me fetch me dress me ; In the woods or in the town? ; Where I truly belong ; Wish you were here! ; Where do I work? ; Autumn leaf walk ; Leaf snap
• Developing. Natural or made? ; Who made it? ; I went to the shop and I bought ; Where shall I sit? ; Today, I am ; Over here or there? ; Build-a-town ; My choice ; Playground planning ; Recycle me do ; All help together ; Follow the arrows
• Securing. Roll-a-feature ; Mark it down ; Who am I? ; It's a wide wide world ; Take me there ; Land, air, and sea ; This is pretty
• History. Emerging. Here I am! ; It's me ; Summer or winter? ; Days of the week ; Feely bag routine ; That's old ; Assembly remembering ; This one time ; Adult or baby? ; How Rome was built ; How we travelled ; No plastic here
• Developing. Victorian me ; Play that video ; Me: past and now ; History dig ; Vroom ; Guess who! ; From baby to now ; Who plays with this? ; Let down your hair!
• Securing. Through the tunnel ; Let's play! ; Today or yesterday? ; My week ; Weekend tales ; Sherlock ; On stage
• Languages. Emerging. Drum circle ; Sing it differently ; Me for my turn! ; Simon Dit ; Action me! ; Play it with me ; Colour hunt ; Hello, Bonjour, Ciao ; Stop! Go! ; Teddy wants ; Good, bad, OK ; Roll it, move it
• Developing. Ola! ; Language whispers ; Rojo, Naranja, Verde ; I want ; Tasty talking ; Do you like spinach ice cream? ; Action match! ; See it, find it ; Release me! ; Are you at school today? ; aMAZEing directions ; Translate me ; Numeral naming ; Story time
• Securing. Sensational story telling ; Bingo! ; Roll-a-command ; Big art ; Colour race ; Old MacDonald ; Numero Beetle ; Shake shake shake! ; Fruit tally ; Classroom calamity ; Name that animal ; On a picnic ; Fruit shop ; Wacky racing.

These simple and creative activities and lesson plans bring you exciting new ideas for teaching National Curriculum Humanities and Languages to inclusive classrooms. Encourage every child to achieve their best results through the easily adaptable and fun activities, from Sensory Box Fire Station to Leaf Snap.

• Preface: You Want To Become A Principal In An Urban School District?
• Forward - by Dr. Carlos Blair, Principal
• Introduction
• Part One: Setting A Solid Foundation Law #1: Guard Your Most Sacred Assets *Mental and Physical Health *Core Philosophy and Beliefs *Effective Use of Time Law #2: Learn the Culture of the School and Community *Your Survival in the Position *The School and the Community Law #3: Become a Supreme Pragmatist Law #4: Establish Your Authority as Principal *Be Serious *Increase Your Visibility Law #5: Be Unpredictable Law #6: Create a Loyal Cabinet *Assistant Principals *Teachers/Other School Leaders *Community Members Part Two: Moving Forward Law #7: Rally the Troops (Unify Your Staff) *Making Connections *Methods for Establishing Unity *Working With Teacher Unions Law #8: Conduct the Critical Conversations *The Right Motives *Turning Points, Documentation, and Grievances Law #9: Learn To Delegate (And Hold Them Accountable) Law #10: Don't Attempt To Change Too Much Too Fast Law #11: Determine What Good Instruction Looks Like *Create Interesting Professional Development Sessions *Model Good Instruction for Teachers *Effective Evaluation Law #12: Create a Strategic Plan for Improving Student Behavior and Teacher Morale *Teacher Morale: Why Is It Low? *Student Disciple: A Huge Problem for Urban Schools *What Should Principals Do?
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The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership was written to give urban school principals strategies for successfully implementing change, and achieving systemic reforms. The book also gives aspiring and novice principals a window into the real issues that affect the prinicpalship, and the circumstances that can determine success or failure. Veteran principals can also learn how to better deal with some of the most challenging issues associated with students, parents, staff, and community members. This is an essential resource for any school leader working in an urban, or public school setting. Listen to Dr. Sean Yisrael on BlogTalkRadio.
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