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This study examined the process of training physical education teachers for the inclusion of children with special educational needs. This involved a five-stage research process examining the views and opinions of government, statutory, and professional PE associations; PE Initial Teacher Training providers (professional opinion and practice) and trainee and recently qualified PE teachers (the consumers).The inclusion of children with SEN in PE has risen up the political and statutory agenda to such an extent that there is widespread evidence of policies being embedded across diverse sectors of society. Consequently, the study set out to examine how the current training of PE teachers for inclusive settings is implemented. As part of this examination it was expected to find evidence of an increased emphasis on the inclusion of children with SEN in PE across official line, professional opinion & practice and consumer levels.The study found that whilst the inclusion of children with SEN in PE had increased in prominence (through official line policy), there was no systematic approach to implementing this policy (via professional opinion and practice and consumers) in practice. ... Read more

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The fourth edition of Student Teacher to Master Teacher: A Practical Guide for Educating Students with Special Needs, confronts the challenges special education teachers are facing in becoming reflective, certified professionals. This book prepares future educators, practicing teachers, and alternative certification professionals with the demands educators will face in the special education and inclusive classroom. Providing realistic and rigorous field experiences balanced with research-based content and activities, this book "bridges the gap" between methods, student teaching and being an effective and successful special education teacher.  For New K-12 Special Education and General Education Teachers.

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Provides practitioners, students, and parents with current examples of good practice and updated information on interagency issues and working with parents. ... Read more

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A set of guidelines and recommendations for professionals
Following the very successful first edition is an updated second edition of Special Needs and Early Years: A Practitioner's Guide - a reference which offers the latest early years initiatives and legislation along with leading examples of good practice and handling parents of children with special needs. This isn't a parent's pick so much as a set of guidelines and recommendations for professionals working with such children and their families - and students at the college level. ... Read more

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The Employment Readiness Guide for Special Needs StudentsTeacher Edition is a great instructional guide for trainingdevelopmentally disabled students for success in future supportedemployment programs. The Employment Readiness Guide for Special NeedsStudents prepares special needs students for the "World ofWork". Chapters of instruction include Workplace Safety, Work Skillsand Attitudes, Working For A Living, Careers and Occupations, andInterviews and Job Applications. Each of the chapters includesinstructional objectives, a vocabulary word list and instructionalexercises.

The Employment Readiness Skills Guide for Special Needs Students isdesigned so that the skills and concepts are easily understood and thecorresponding activities are completed at the mastery level oflearning. The Teacher Edition is spiral bound for durability andincludes all answers to activity pages. The Student Edition is readyfor duplication. A complete set includes one Teacher Edition and oneStudent Edition ready for duplication! ... Read more

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The "Springboard" series provides a realistic and consistent context for the structured development of sight vocabulary and reading skills amongst struggling readers at primary level. This book provides a comprehensive resource for teachers, covering stages 1 to 3 of the programme. ... Read more

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This is a booklet for teachers of Years 8 to 10 who are using the Careers Basics 8 to 10 student booklets. This text is for form teachers working with special needs students. ... Read more

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In a compelling and beautifully illustrated story, award-winning author Douglas Wood tells of the teacher who led him to love reading, in spite of his ADHD.

Douglas is the youngest, smallest, and newest student in his second-grade class, and he doesn’t like reading. He doesn’t like sitting still. And he doesn’t like Miss Little, especially when she makes him stay after class day after day, forcing him to sound out lines and blobs and squiggles when he’d rather be throwing a football. Luckily Douglas likes the pictures in the book Miss Little has chosen for him, pictures that remind him of the lake his family visits every summer. Award-winning author Douglas Wood — the boy in the story — alludes to scenes from The Little Island, the first book that enticed him to read, in a tale that will resonate with many children with ADHD. It is also a heartwarming ode to a special teacher whose gentle persistence changed one little boy’s life forever. ... Read more

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What a gift!
Douglas Wood has given us many gifts over the years. Non better than Old Turtle..a classic.
I have used Miss Little's Gift in my read-aloud presentations for First through Fourth grades, and they all have the same reaction, they are amazed that the author had a reading problem in Second grade. Many can identify with some of the same problems with recognizing those lines, dots and squiggles that Douglas encountered. Thank you Douglas Wood..you have given us numerous gifts over the years,and Miss Little Gift is a very special book that honors all of those heroes who taught us how to read!

The greatest gift Douglas, a boy with ADHD, would ever have was the time, patience and love Miss Little had to give him!
Douglas had moved from Kentucky to Iowa and was having trouble fitting in.The other kids poked fun at him claiming he "talked funny."He didn't like the other kids, they didn't like him.He didn't like reading because he couldn't and he didn't like Miss little because he wouldn't.She made him stay after school so he would learn to read.The only thing he managed to learn out of those "line and blobs and squiggles that didn't mean anything" was that teachers sure knew how to torture kids.He DID NOT like that Miss Little. . .not even a tiny little bit.It was a discouraging thing to be stuck in after school every day."I can't do this. . . "

"Oh, yes, you are Douglas.You're going to become a good reader."The playground spoke to him.Baseball, football. . ."Douglas."No, he couldn't do it.Lines and blobs and squiggles he couldn't decipher were sheer torture. Miss Little gave him a book about an island that interested him and brought back fond memories of Granddad and Lake Kabetogama.Miss Little was sooooo persistent, but now something started to click."A juh-gen-tell--gentle!A gentle wind."There was something about this book.The kitten was going the island and some people were going to have a picnic.What was going to happen?Help, Miss Little. . .he needed to find out what secret things that kitten was going to find and he needed to know the secret of reading!

I loved this heartwarming tribute to Miss Little several times and each time I felt the elation one might feel at the end of a movie when the underdog succeeds.Many children would never have made if they didn't have a Miss Little in their lives.The greatest gift that Douglas probably ever had was the gift of his teacher's time, patience and love for a little boy with ADHD.She knew he had something special in him.In the back of the book the author talks about his Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and his own personal battle with it.If you or anyone in your life has ADHD you are NOT going to like this book. . .you're going to LOVE it! ... Read more