What Every Teacher Should Know About Special Learners

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