The Exceptional Teacher's Handbook: The First-Year Special Education Teacher's Guide to Success, Second Edition

by Carla Shelton & Alice Pollingue (2005, Corwin Press, 34.95)
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Newly updated to address NCLB and changes to IDEA. Supplies the special education teacher with classroom management techniques, helpful IEP meeting protocol, parent conference ideas, and the day-to-day nuts and bolts of keeping a lid on things. Grades K-12. [8.5” x 11”...189 pages]

The Special Educator's Survival Guide: Second Edition

by Roger Pierangelo (2004, Jossey-Bass, 29.95)
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Written for educators who work with special children and teens, this second edition of a best-selling classic offers a practical guide to every facet of the special education teacher’ s job, from teaching in a self-contained classroom or resource room to serving on a multidisciplinary team. This easy-to-follow format, takes you step by step through the various stages required to understand the referral process, parent intakes and conferences, evaluation, interpretation, diagnosis, remediation, placement, individual education plans, classroom management, medication, educational law, and more. [8.5” x 11”...316 pages]

The Educator's Guide to Mental Health Issues in the Classroom

by Frank Kline & Larry Silver (2004, Brookes, 29.95)
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Educators are often the first to notice the mental health issues of children and adolescents. This reader-friendly guide provides general and special education teachers with the information they need to collaborate with mental health providers and create effective learning environments. Beginning with an overview of the mental health system and a section clarifying the different types of mental health professionals, this book gives educators separate chapters on many specific mental health issues. [7” x 10”...408 pages]

Love & Logic Solutions for Kids with Special Needs

by David Funk (2002, Love & Logic Press, 14.95)
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Love and Logic provides new and powerful techniques for bringing the best out of special needs kids…techniques that are both research-based and legally sound. The lessons in this book are not just for educators, but also for parents, siblings, law enforcement, clergy, and anyone else whose life is touched by special needs kids. These unique individuals touch the lives of all of us and everyone who reads this book will laugh, cry, celebrate, and learn. [6" x 9"...258 pages]

So You Want To Be a Special Education Teacher

by Jim Yerman (2001, Future Horizons, 19.95)
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A humorous and heart-warming view of the challenges and successes of those who teach special education. This book will have you laughing while you view the world of special education for the first time, or because you recognize the humor and joy from your own experiences. This is not a "how-to" book on becoming a special education teacher or a book of lesson plans for school. It is a book which expands your perspective of life itself, which has to have humor in it to be a joy. [6” x 9”...196 pages]

What Every Teacher Should Know About Students with Special Needs: Promoting Success in the Classroom

by Roger Pierangelo, et al. (2001, Research Press, 19.95)
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This helpful book gives quick “tours” of each special need. It then offers positive ways to help children with that particular need. You will find each chapter contains useful and tested classroom management strategies. Each of which will help meet the needs of all children with disabilities as they face serious academic, social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. Grades K-12. [6” x 9”...140 pages]

Kids with Special Needs: Information & Activities to Promote Awareness & Understanding

by Veronica Getskow & Dee Konczal (1996, Learning Works, 19.99)
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An introduction to the major types of disabilities, as well as 15 common health conditions such as allergies, diabetes, and asthma. Through various simulations, games, and activities, your students will discover for themselves the difficulties faced by children with disabilities. You will find an extensive section on bibliotherapy. Grades 4-8. [8.5” x 11”...200 pages]

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