Innovative Interventions for Today's Exceptional Children: Cultivating a Passion for Compassion - Hardcover

Scannella, Anthony; McCarthy, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578868696 ISBN 13: 9781578868698

Publisher: R&L Education, 2008

Synopsis

Innovative Interventions for Today's Exceptional Kids provides teachers, parents, administrators, and school counselors with an intervention framework to help the struggling children. The focus of the Scannella and McCarthy's approach is preventative rather than reactive and remedial. Based on sound management practices, rather than gimmicks and techniques, this book provides guidelines to assist in proper child development, both behavioral and academic.

The strategies and interventions, which are grounded in solid research and practice, include solutions for issues that educators face daily. A supportive professional tool that will help all adults acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to be able to strengthen a child's capacity to function successfully and with resiliency, Innovative Interventions for Today's Exceptional Kids blends the disciplines of cognitive psychology, neurolinguistics, and personality theory.

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About the Author

Anthony Scannella is Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Educational Administration. Sharon McCarthy is President of Envision, Inc.

Review

Anyone who values the well-being of children and is responsible for their learning and success should read this book. The authors provide a host of engaging strategies and interventions that invite the reader to connect with children, making a lasting difference in their lives. (Marie M. Adair, Executive Director, New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)

A high-qaulity teaching tool, Innovative Interventions for Today's Exceptional Kids recommends strategies and techniques that will empower both the teacher and student. (JoAnn D. Bartoletti, Executive Director, New Jersey Principals & Supervisors Association)

Passion for Compassion aims to improve the way parents, teachers, schools, and civil society care for the well-being of our children. Drawing on lessons and insights from their considerable experience working in the field of child development and education, coauthors Anthony Scannella and Sharon McCarthy take a common sense approach to helping children and struggling students learn essential strategies for developing self-control, self-concept, resilience, and other healthy habits of mind that enable them to grow and flourish. This book provides some practical techniques for promoting positive feedback and personal growth, inspired by the enlightened perspective of wellness cultivated by the legendary African Masai warriors, who earnestly and regularly inquire: "And how are the children?" (Todd Siler, Author of Think Like a Genius)

Required reading for all educators committed to increasing their effectiveness with struggling children, providing brilliant interventions that are immediately practical. (Matthew Jennings, Ed.D., Author of Leading Effective Meetings, Teams, and Work Groups In Districts and Schools)

About this edition

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1578868696
• ISBN 13: 9781578868698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 94