Including Students with Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers (6th Edition)
This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings.  Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels.  Its non-categorical approach helps teachers ensure all students’ success regardless of their specific categories of exceptionality.  The Sixth edition integrates today’s expectations for students with the authors’ strong commitment to inclusive practices, tempered by the realities of day-today teaching. This text provides teachers with a firm grounding in special education practices, an understanding of the professionals who support these students and the procedures followed to ensure their rights are upheld, and a wealth of research-based strategies and interventions that can foster their success. Prepare with the Power of Classroom Practice. MyEducationLab’s easy-to-assign homework and activities will engage your students and ensure that they come to class more prepared. It saves you the class time that is often spent reviewing the basics and lets you devote that time to higher level learning experiences. Informed by evidence-based practice, MyEducationLab connects your course content to real classrooms with interactive exercises and activities that enhance students' learning and give them a deeper understanding of teaching. Additionally, all of the activities and exercises in MyEducationLab are convenientlybuilt around essential learning outcomesandmapped to professional teaching standards. To provide your students access to MyEducationLab, your bookstore is required to order the ISBN containing a MyEducationLab Student Access Card. To verify the correct ISBN, you can go to www.myeducationlab.com, see the ISBN below, or contact your local Pearson sales representative.Encourage your students to practice applying what they have been learning throughinteractive exercises and simulationsincluding Building Teaching Skills and Dispositions assignments and the Classroom Management Simulations.Prepare your students to analyze, reflect, and respond toreal classroom situationswith assignments that provide them with classroom video, case studies, and authentic student and teacher artifacts.Provide your students with interactive modules, case study units, and podcasts from the acclaimed IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University with theIRIS Center Resourceson MyEducationLab.AssignPractice Testsfor each chapter of your text and your students will receive an individualized study plan that identifies their strengths and weaknesses and provides accompanying resources to help them master the concepts covered in your course.Interact with theIEP Tutorialto learn how to develop appropriate IEPs and how to conduct effective IEP conferences.Use theLesson Planning Softwareto develop high-quality lesson plans.  The software also makes it easy to integrate your state’s content standards into all of your lesson plans.Prepare your students to pass their teacher licensure exam by familiarizing them withteacher certification testrequirements. Thos module includes descriptions of what’s covered on each exam and opportunities to answer sample test questions.