The Effective Special Education Teacher: A Practical Guide for Success

About this book

This comprehensive pedagogically rich guide aims to help teachers entering the rewarding field of special education become highly successful and competent. The authors thirty-plus years of experience interacting with teachers and learning their needs endows them with a deep understanding of important issues teachers encounter as well as their concerns about employing the best teaching methods. The books well-structured easy-to-follow sections are devoted to developing collaborative relationships preparing individualized educational programs writing lesson plans selecting instructional and behavioral techniques and understanding the teacher evaluation methods in current use today. Guidance is also provided for self-reflection and formulating future goals. Each chapter contains numerous vignettes rubrics templates strategies and stimulating activities.