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Gifted kids are so much more than test scores and grades. Still, it's sometimes difficult to see past the potential to the child who may be anxious, lonely, confused, or unsure of what the future might bring. This book, now fully revised with updated information and new survey quotes, offers practical suggestions for addressing the social and emotional needs of gifted students. The authors present ways to advocate for gifted education; help gifted...
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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2018.
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"Packed with fun, creative and multi-sensory activities, this resource will help children and teenagers with dyslexia become successful learners across the curriculum. The authors provide over one hundred tried-and-tested fun and imaginative activities and ideas to unlock the learning of children and teenagers with dyslexia in creative ways. The book is split into parts addressing literacy, numeracy, learning and cross curricular subjects. With fun...
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Help educators transform schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy for high reliability, K 12 school leaders will learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of their school and students' success. Each chapter highlights a single level of the hierarchy and clarifies what actions educators should take at each level to increase their school's effectiveness....
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This chapter is designed to address the needs of individuals with visual and multiple disabilities who may not be able to follow all parts of a traditional academic curriculum. As educators, our primary goal should be to provide students with skills that will be of use throughout their lives. Skill acquisition often takes longer for students with multiple disabilities, and they are not always able to generalize them into other settings. For this reason...
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Accessible College: A Guide to Transition students with disability from High School to College will guide students, parents, teachers, advisors and administrators, and community members as they begin planning for academic accommodations at the collegiate level. Use the checklists for students as this is their guide for program planning. The concepts in this workbook are simplified but thorough and universal enough to assist most students with disabilities...
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Some of us choose professions in our youth and never stray from that vision. Others among us seem to have our vocations thrust upon us, as if the hand of the Almighty carved a pathway not of our choosing. For teacher David Lazerson, this scenario was his reality. By the time he finally embraced the idea of becoming an educator, he was full of idealism, determination, and hopefulness. Little did he realize that his starry-eyed vision of impacting young...
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This is a complete step-by-step guide for conducting a 1-2 day workshop on how to work with people with disabilities. The book includes information on better understanding, communicating, and working with anyone with a disability, along with a series of simulations and games to offer a hands-on experience that will provide opportunities for reflection and discussion. It additionally includes a PowerPoint presentation. The program is designed especially...
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For 35 years Laura Fogg has worked with blind children and their families, traveling throughout beautiful and sometimes treacherous Mendocino County, using her car as an office and her abundant creativity as her main teaching tool. In her remarkable memoir, Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers, Fogg describes the challenges and delights in her life's work while portraying blindness as a condition that can be difficult and inconvenient...
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This chapter will include explanations and helpful activities in the areas that play an important role in motor development. The typical development of motor skills follows a natural, progressive pattern. However, interference with part of the system, be it visual, auditory, motor, etc. will cause delays in motor development. In general, children totally blind since birth exhibit the greatest delays in motor development.
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When my son was diagnosed with Autism, getting him to talk seemed like an impossible task. Without a background in speech therapy, I felt helpless. My hope was to hear his voice someday. Nearly all speech therapists we saw told me that he would never speak and suggested that I teach him sign language and pray for the best. Nevertheless, when he used to cry, I could hear the noise of his crying, and I would always wonder that if he could make sounds...
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Pedirle a un guionista que prologue un manual de escritura son ganas de empezar el día con jarana. No descubro nada a nadie si señalo la mala fama que tienen este tipo de libros entre los profesionales, gente que disfrutamos mucho diciendo aquello de que a escribir películas se viene aprendido de casa y lo demás son artificios. Para despachar este tema nos gusta pavonearnos con aquello de que si estriñen la...
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My book may be purchased in bulk for promotional and educational empowering of self-esteem, understanding the banking system, what the creation and destruction monetary ex nihilo are, the worldwide political system and economy. It's to help you know the good path to take in order to boost your economy level as well. So I have deep thinking, by the very act of buying and reading this book, that will completely change your life and even your friends...
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Maya Ruby loves school and getting gold stars. As she progresses in school, she notices something is wrong; her beloved books are difficult to read because the letters look strange. When her parents become aware of her difficulties they seek professional help to get answers. In this book, a girl discovers she has dyslexia and with support she can learn and enjoy her books again. Dyslexia byslexia.
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Co-teaching has been increasingly adopted to support students in the general education classroom. After 20 years of field testing, we know what works-and what doesn't. In this practical guide, co-teaching and inclusion experts Toby J. Karten and Wendy W. Murawski detail the best practices for successful co-teaching and ways to troubleshoot common pitfalls. This book addresses the do's, don'ts, and do betters of
* The co-teaching relationship and...
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The nowadays society is confronted with some of the most pronounced disparities in the economic system, with direct repercussions on the labor market, borne by both employees and employers. The main deficiencies of the labor market are caused by the low growth rate of the demand for goods, with consequences in terms of employment, the effect of decreasing the purchasing power of the population, the lack of correlation between the growth rates of labor...
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