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The challenges we face today in special education require highly-qualified, reflective practitioners who use research-based strategies in the classroom and who are excited about the success and future of our children.  If you are interested in the profession of teaching, whether in the general or special education classroom, then this is the book for you. Engaging and insightful, Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction not only provides a solid foundation for being a teacher in today’s diverse classroom, but helps you to truthfully answer the question, “Are you prepared to serve and teach all students?”

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Special Education for Today's Teachers: An Introduction

Michael S. Rosenberg, David L. Westling, and James McLeskey

 

A BOOK WHOSE TIME HAS COME.

 

The challenges we face today in special education require highly-qualified, reflective practitioners who use research-based strategies in the classroom and who are excited about the success and future of our children.  If you are interested in the profession of teaching, whether in the general or special education classroom, then this is the book for you. Engaging and insightful, Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction not only provides a solid foundation for being a teacher in today’s diverse classroom, but helps you to truthfully answer the question, “Are you prepared to serve and teach all students?”

 

Features include:

  • A strong focus on professionalism, instructional application, and reflection throughout the text and on the DVD-ROM that accompanies the text.  
  • Access to Merrill’s Teacher Preparation Website (www.prenhal.com/teacherprep) included inside every new copy of the text. Connections are made throughout the text to this website.

A FOCUS ON PROFESSIONALISM

  • My Profession, My Story vignettes highlight teachers, their life experiences, dispositions, and attitudes, and how all of these factors relate to daily teaching practice and the profession.
  • Site Visit: Effective Practices in Action features highlight programs in which educators are engaging in effective research-based practices for the classroom.
  • Chapter 16: Continuing a Special Education Career: Collaboration, Professionalism, and Professional Development.
  • Addresses the CEC Knowledge and Skill Standards, CEC Code of Ethics, and PRAXIS Standards.

A FOCUS ON INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION

  • Highly Effective Instructional Strategies features help readers to understand the steps necessary to incorporate effective strategies into their teaching.
  • Can You Help Me With This Student? featurespresent a scenario or case study where a teacher is facing a difficult or challenging situation and show how this challenge could be resolved.
  • Technology for Access features are integrated throughout the text.
  • Chapter 5: Teaching, Learning, and Behavior Management.

A FOCUS ON REFLECTION

  • Chapter 1: Teaching Students with Special Educational Needs: Finding Your Role
  • Reflective Exercises margin notes engage readers through thought-provoking questions that extend the content of the narrative.
  • Reflect Upon focus questions are found at the beginning of each chapter.

 

To visit the website that accompanies this text,

please go to http://www.prenhall.com/rosenberg.

 

 

About the Author

Michael S. Rosenberg is a Professor in the Department of Special Education and Chair of Doctoral Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his doctoral work at Penn State University. A co-editor of Teacher Education and Special Education, Dr. Rosenberg is the co-author of Educating Students with Behavior Disorders (with R. Wilson, L. Maheady, & P.T. Sindelar, published by Allyn & Bacon, 2003); Student Teacher To Master Teacher (With L. J. O’Shea & D.F O’Shea, published in 2006); The Special Education Sourcebook (with Irene Edmond-Rosenberg, published by Woodbine House, 1994); and Inclusion: Effective Practices for All Students (with James McLeskey and David Westling, to be published by Pearson 2010); and numerous publications in professional journals.

 

David L. Westling is the Adelaide Worth Daniels Distinguished Professor of Special Education at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He completed his doctoral work at the University of Florida. He is the co-author of Teaching Students with Severe Disabilities (with Lise Fox, published by Prentice Hall in 2009); and Inclusion: Effective Practices for All Students (with James McLeskey and Michael Rosenberg, to be published by Pearson 2010); and numerous papers in professional journals.

 

James McLeskey is professor and chair of the Department of Special Education at the University of Florida. He completed his doctoral work at Georgia State University. Dr. McLeskey is the author or co-author of Inclusion: Effective Practices for All Students (with Michael Rosenberg and David Westling, to be published by Pearson 2010); Reflections on Inclusion: Classic Articles that Shaped our Thinking (published by CEC, 2007); and Inclusive Education in Action: Making Differences Ordinary (with Nancy L. Waldron, published by ASCD, 2000). He has worked extensively with local schools as they have developed inclusive schools, and has written numerous articles regarding this work.

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  • Publication date2007
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