Systems Thinking For Supporting Students With Special Needs And Disabilities

Author : Mabel Gonzales
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813345584

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Systems Thinking for Supporting Students with Special Needs and Disabilities by Mabel Gonzales Pdf

This book provides school leaders and teachers with research-based theories and models on systems thinking and on inclusive education. It offers the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of inclusive teaching and learning with specific references to a range of special needs. It discusses topics such as a sustainable approach to inclusion, differentiation of learning programs and activities, and a range of assessment approaches to support teaching and learning. The book also presents the social aspects of inclusion and encourages teachers and school leaders to focus not only on the academic aspects of education but the social and emotional growth of the student. It highlights the value of parent input and promotes the forming of parent partnership to enhance student learning and wellbeing. Part One of the book gives practical suggestions on how school leaders can apply systems thinking to mobilise the school and school community to contribute to the ideals of Education For All. Part Two discusses a range of disabilities with each chapter covering the medical definitions and characteristics of the condition, the challenges faced by the student, their parents and teachers, and presents evidence-based strategies and classroom management tips to help teachers with their everyday classroom needs. The book helps to heighten school leaders’ awareness on how to use systems thinking to mobilise the school community to action. It strengthens teachers' confidence and builds their capacity in providing all students with access to flexible learning choices to help them achieve educational goals and develop a sense of belonging.

Author : David R. Mitchell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415284538

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Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education: Systems and contexts by David R. Mitchell Pdf

Demonstrates how the fields of special education and inclusive education have evolved philosophically and technically over the past 30 years.

Author : Rhonda Filmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040039441

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Neurodiversity and the Twice-Exceptional Student by Rhonda Filmer Pdf

Written for busy teachers, this practical manual defines terms, shares examples and provides evidence-based information and strategies to support the teaching of twice-exceptional students. Providing a comprehensive blueprint in an easy-to-use format, this book explains classroom techniques for differentiation with tips and advice based on research and teacher experience. The topics covered include learning disabilities, gifted and high potential education, talent development and general classroom pedagogy involving curriculum differentiation and individualised programming. It also explains, in more depth, the varying presentations of neurodiversity in the form of specific learning disabilities, autism and attention deficits in the gifted/high potential student to enable teachers to acquire more knowledge of the nuances evident in each twice-exceptional student. Case studies capture the perspectives of twice-exceptional young people who have thrived, and the book provides weblinks to a very comprehensive list of helpful, freely-available resources. This essential, practical resource will serve teachers and educators in both primary and secondary schooling, as well as pre-service educators. It will also be of interest to parents and carers.

Author : Margaret S. Barrett,Heidi M. Westerlund
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031458934

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Music Education, Ecopolitical Professionalism, and Public Pedagogy by Margaret S. Barrett,Heidi M. Westerlund Pdf

This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call to develop ‘ecological awareness’ at a time when all professions have a moral obligation to place sustainable and interdependent life at the center. The book aims to expand music education’s professional horizons to acknowledge the responsibility of the music field to contribute to the demands of complex questions of sustainability and identify the ways in which sustainable music education may be strengthened through an activist relational ecological stance. It suggests a radical moral turn by asking: What if music education is recognised as part of the problem of sustaining unsustainability? and What if music teacher education was developed in and through dialogue with a futures perspective? These questions are interrogated through a critical analysis of the historical positioning of music in education and an interdisciplinary application of theories of ecology and professionalism.

Author : Kenneth K. Poon,Joanne Khaw,Jen-Yi Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Learning disabilities
ISBN : 9810678975

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Supporting Students with Special Needs in Mainstream Schools by Kenneth K. Poon,Joanne Khaw,Jen-Yi Li Pdf

Author : Fred M. Ssewamala,Ozge Sensoy Bahar,Mary M. McKay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030837075

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Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa by Fred M. Ssewamala,Ozge Sensoy Bahar,Mary M. McKay Pdf

This book highlights the emerging research and policy development efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and shortcomings. A diverse range of researchers, with expertise on relevant policy in both the region as a whole and country-specific contexts, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, outline theoretically informed, culturally appropriate, evidence-based, and youth- and family-focused service models. The first work of its kind with an exclusive focus on the understudied region of Sub-Saharan Africa, this text: Provides an overview of the current state of child and adolescent behavioral health in the region Evaluates empirical work on risk and protective factors influencing behavioral outcomes Highlights emerging intervention research and dialogue on what works to improve child and adolescent behavioral health Offers insight and strategies on how to advance child and adolescent behavioral health in policy, research, and practice Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards Evidence Generation and Policy Development is a unique reference that offers guidance for current and future policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and students as they seek to invest and engage in the healthy development of a future generation.

Author : David R. Mitchell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415284546

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Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education: Inclusive education by David R. Mitchell Pdf

Demonstrates how the fields of special education and inclusive education have evolved philosophically and technically over the past 30 years.

Author : Hai-Jew, Shalin
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799886280

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Career Re-Invention in the Post-Pandemic Era by Hai-Jew, Shalin Pdf

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, humanity was facing economic hardships with human jobs going to automation, AI, and machines. In the downward slope of the pandemic, large percentages of the world’s population are without work, and many are still in isolation and social distancing for biosafety and health. If it is true that crisis brings out opportunities, then this is a highly opportune moment for humanity to redefine and move forward. Career Re-Invention in the Post-Pandemic Era explores how people in their respective localities are adapting for a new economy through new understandings of the world and concomitant reconceptualizations of the self. This work addresses how people are thinking of the present and the near-future, how people are surviving the present moment of sparsity and shortages, and how people are retooling themselves to adapt to a new economy. Covering topics such as digital skills, K-12 education, and entrepreneurship, this book is an essential resource for faculty of higher education, K-12 administrators, government officials, business leaders, entrepreneurs, sociologists, economists, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Garry Hornby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781493914838

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Inclusive Special Education by Garry Hornby Pdf

Much has been written about special education and about inclusive education, but there have been few attempts to pull these two concepts and approaches together. This book does just that: sets special education within the context of inclusive education. It posits that to include, effectively, all children with special educational needs in schools requires an integration of both concepts, approaches, and techniques. It has never been more timely to publish a book that helps professionals who work with schools, such as psychologists, special education professionals, and counselors, to identify effective practices for children with special needs and provide guidelines for implementing these in inclusive schools.

Author : Mabel Gonzales
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811903243

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Emotional Intelligence for Students, Parents, Teachers and School Leaders by Mabel Gonzales Pdf

This book heightens readers’ awareness of the importance of emotional intelligence and how it impacts our lives. It inspires parents, teachers and school leaders to learn more about emotional intelligence as a process of self-improvement, relational skills, and to help our students to develop emotional intelligence from an early stage of their lives. There are four parts in the book. Part 1 explains the importance of emotional intelligence in every aspect of our lives. It presents models and theories of emotional intelligence and explains how our emotions control our mind, body and spirit. Part 2 gives insights into how emotions play a significant role in our relationships with others. Part 3 takes the reader from family to the workplace and highlights the importance of becoming more aware of our emotions at work and how we relate to others. Part 4 emphasises the importance of helping our students to develop essential emotional intelligence to face this increasingly complex and challenging world.

Author : David J. Connor,Beth A. Ferri
Publisher : Peter Lang Us
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 143318561X

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How Teaching Shapes Our Thinking about Disabilities by David J. Connor,Beth A. Ferri Pdf

This book connects practice to research, and vice versa, through the use of deeply personal stories in the form of autoethnographic memoirs on teaching students with dis/abilities in K-12 settings across the USA.

Author : Peter S. Westwood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Children with disabilities
ISBN : 9780415156233

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Commonsense Methods for Children with Special Needs by Peter S. Westwood Pdf

This is a book that should be required reading for all Secretaries of State for Education. It was easy to read and ought to find a place in as many staff libraries as possible." Education Review

Author : Vicki A. McGinley,Melina Alexander
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506315980

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Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs by Vicki A. McGinley,Melina Alexander Pdf

Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs: Collaborating Across the Age Span teaches students the skills they need to effectively collaborate with parents and families to ensure a child's success in the classroom. Authors Vicki A. McGinley and Melina Alexander’s text takes a lifespan approach with a special emphasis on the critical transition points in a child’s life. Information is provided on what can be seen at each stage of an individual with disabilities’ development, and addresses concerns and needs that families may have during these unique phases of growth. Chapters written by professors and professionals who are also parents of students with special needs bring a diverse range of voices into the narrative. The authors provide an in-depth discussion of how parents and families are affected by particular disabilities, family system theory, the laws that affect individuals with disabilities, and assessments for individuals with disabilities.

Author : Justin J. W. Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317263371

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Barriers to Inclusion by Justin J. W. Powell Pdf

Barriers to Inclusion offers a comparative and historical account of the rise of special education over the twentieth century in the United States and Germany. This institutional analysis demonstrates how categorical boundaries, professional groups, social movements, and education and social policies shaped the schooling of children and youth with disabilities. It traces the evolution of special education classification, explores growing special education organizations, and examines students' learning opportunities and educational attainments. Highlighting cross-national differences over time, the author also investigates demographic and geographic variability within the federal democracies, especially in segregation and inclusion rates of disabled and disadvantaged children. Germany's elaborate system of segregated special school types contrasts with diverse American special education classrooms mainly within regular schools. Joining historical case studies with empirical indicators, this book reveals persistent barriers to school integration as well as factors that facilitate inclusive education reform in both societies.

Author : James McLeskey,Fred Spooner,Bob Algozzine,Nancy, L. Waldron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136242434

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Handbook of Effective Inclusive Schools by James McLeskey,Fred Spooner,Bob Algozzine,Nancy, L. Waldron Pdf

Over the last decade, the educational context for students with disabilities has significantly changed primarily as a result of mandates contained in NCLB and IDEA. The purpose of this book is to summarize the research literature regarding how students might be provided classrooms and schools that are both inclusive and effective. Inclusive schools are defined as places where students with disabilities are valued and active participants in academic and social activities and are given supports that help them succeed. Effectiveness is addressed within the current movement toward multi-tiered systems of support and evidence-based practices that meet the demands of high-stakes accountability.