Including Students Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers - Softcover

Friend, Marilyn Penovich; Bursuck, William D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205149111 ISBN 13: 9780205149117

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1995

Synopsis

Designed for a mainstreaming/inclusion course taken by general education readers to fill their requirement. Although the book does explain federal disability categories, it takes a noncategorical approach for interventions and emphasizes best practices for teaching readers with disabilities in inclusive settings.

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Review

“The information in this text is all valuable and important for the students we teach. Friend and Bursuck have done a comprehensive job in covering the very topics that educators should be aware of, know something about, or master. I commend the authors for such a fine job pulling together this very critical material.”

- Janetta Fleming Bradley, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

 

“The style of writing is user-friendly. It feels like a conversation between a mentor and teacher is taking place.”

- Melina Alexander, Weber State University

 

“The use of student examples woven throughout the chapters makes the book very clear and realistic for future teachers who are coming to grips with the idea of inclusion. There are many practical and understandable real-life examples throughout the book.”

- Dr. Genevieve Howe Hay, College of Charleston

 

“I think this is an excellent text for Introduction/Survey of Special Education courses that are designed to give the learner a broad overview of diversity in the classroom.”

- Jackie Paxton, Ed.D., Arkansas Tech University

About the Author

Marilyn Friend, Ph.D., has spent her career as a general education teacher, special education teacher, researcher, professor, administrator, teacher educator, and staff developer. She is Professor Emerita of Education in the Department of Specialized Education Services at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and she is Past President of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of children and youth with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. Dr. Friend has consulted with school professionals nationally and internationally (more than 3000 presentations and projects in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia) as they collaborate to educate their students, assisting them to create classroom partnerships through co-teaching, to form productive and efficient work teams, and to foster inclusive practices. She is the author or co-author of three widely used college textbooks on special education; a variety of co-teaching materials for teachers and administrators; more than 60 articles and chapters about collaboration, inclusive practices, and co-teaching; and a highly popular video series on co-teaching and other inclusive practices. Her work as a special education teacher education was recognized when she was named the 2016 recipient of the Teacher Education Division/Pearson Excellence in Special Education Teacher Education Award. William Bursuck began his career as a general education teacher, and as a special education teacher and university teacher educator he has maintained an active interest in inclusive practices, publishing numerous research articles, successfully obtaining grants to conduct research, and publishing two books. Throughout his career, Dr. Bursuck has derived great satisfaction from providing classroom and future teachers with practical, research-based strategies to improve educational outcomes for students with special needs in this age of ever-increasing educational standards and teacher accountability. He is Professor Emeritus, Department of Specialized Education Services, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the co-author (with Mary Damer) of Teaching Reading to Students Who Are At-Risk or Have Disabilities: A Multi-Tier Approach (3rd Edition, Pearson, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205149111
• ISBN 13: 9780205149117
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 522