What Every Teacher Should... Spec. Learning

This resource will help you differentiate content for special learners by identifying special programs and the laws and regulations that govern those programs.

The concise guide to differentiating instruction for special learners

Teaching and learning strategies have a profound effect on students with disabilities as well as on gifted and talented students. This resource for the classroom teacher covers:

• Special education categories
• Special education regulations, laws, programs, and processes: IDEA, 504, referral, assessment, placement, IEP, and more
• Identifying and working with special learners
• Special learners in the regular classroom
• Helping students use a variety of modalities to process, store, and retrieve information
• Effective teaching and learning strategies for at-risk students: grouping strategies, peer tutoring, computer-assisted instruction, and more
• Differentiating content, process, and product for gifted students
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
• Bibliography and index

Donna Walker Tileston has served education as a leader in teaching, administration, research, writing, software development, and national consulting for the past thirty years. She has been responsible for curriculum development, management, technology, finance, grants management, public relations, and drug abuse prevention programs. For the past twenty-five years, she has been actively involved in brain research, including research on factors that inhibit learning or increase the brain's ability to put information into long-term memory. Tileston's ten-book collection What Every Teacher Should Know (Corwin Press 2003) received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other Corwin press titles include What Every Parent Should Know About Schools, Standards, and High-Stakes Tests (2005), Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2005), and Strategies for Teaching Differently (1998). Tileston has presented extensively at local, state, national, and international conferences, notably at The Hague in November 2005 and in Prague during March 2006.