Michael Farrell presents an examination of the main issues affecting secondary schools and the implications for secondary education. The resource includes information on accreditation of pupils, careers education and guidance, discipline, leadership and management and transition from primary to secondary school. By using the A-Z format, he tackles the issues in an easy to follow way. Each section ends with a series of points for action, selective suggestions for further reading and addresses of useful contacts. Michael Farrell's book is intended for a wide range of people professionally...
Michael Farrell presents an examination of the main issues affecting secondary schools and the implications for secondary education. The resource incl...
Teachers need to be fully equipped to respond to diversity in today's classrooms now more than ever before. The Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status and Induction Standards are now the driving force behind initial teacher education, and students will need to demonstrate their competence against these, and in particular, their understanding of Special Educational Needs in today's inclusive classrooms. Each chapter of this indispensable text explores an important topic within SEN and directly relates it to the competencies, making it an essential course...
Teachers need to be fully equipped to respond to diversity in today's classrooms now more than ever before. The Professional Standards for Qual...
Presents a 'route map' for special education. Through examining related disciplines, which illuminate the field, this book considers how special education can be better understood. It views issues in special education within the wider disciplines of history, sociology, law, politics, ethics, economics, medicine and psychology.
Presents a 'route map' for special education. Through examining related disciplines, which illuminate the field, this book considers how special educa...
Essential reading for every SENCO, in fact, for everyone involved in special educational needs' - "Dr Tony Lingard, Head of Learning Support, Cambourne Science and Community College
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This book provides a route map' for special education. Through examining related disciplines, which illuminate the field, it considers how special education can be better understood.
Essential reading for every SENCO, in fact, for everyone involved in special educational needs' - "Dr Tony Lingard, Head of Learning Support, Cambourn...
In this welcome second edition of The Effective Teacher 's Guide to Autism and Communication Difficulties, best-selling author Michael Farrell addresses how teachers and others can develop provision for students with autism and students that have difficulties with speech, grammar, meaning, use of language and comprehension. Updated and expanded, this book allows the teacher to be self-critical in developing classroom approaches and offers up-to-date research combined with professional experience on how to best achieve good practice in the classroom. This accessible book offers...
In this welcome second edition of The Effective Teacher 's Guide to Autism and Communication Difficulties, best-selling author Michael Farrell addr...
This updated second edition of The Effective Teachers Guide to Moderate, Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties (Cognitive Impairments) has been restructured and expanded to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the busy teacher. This new edition is highly relevant and contextualized, drawing on the curriculum and assessment, pedagogy, resources, therapy and care and school and classroom organisation. It is accessible and practical in approach yet offers the necessary underpinning of research and professional knowledge to enable the teacher to be self-critical in developing classroom...
This updated second edition of The Effective Teachers Guide to Moderate, Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties (Cognitive Impairments) has been re...
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Long before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of western travel and selling it to mass audiences. In 1851, entrepreneur John Wesley Jones hired artist William Quesenbury to join such a venture. Quesenbury and other artists traveled the overland trails through Nebraska Territory to sketch the "scenery, curiosities, and stupendous rocks" they encountered, and Jones used selected material for his "Pantoscope," a gigantic, scrolling panoramic painting. Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous...
Long before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of w...
This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand special education today. New Perspectives in Special Education opens the door to the fascinating and vitally important world of theory that informs contemporary special education. It examines theoretical and philosophical orientations such as 'positivism', 'poststructuralism' and 'hermeneutics', relating these to contemporary global views of special education. Offering a refreshingly balanced view across a broad range of debates, this topical text guides the reader through the main theoretical and philosophical positions that may...
This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand special education today. New Perspectives in Special Education opens the door to the fas...
Contemporary and stimulating, "Looking into Special Education "provides an engaging overview of the key areas of special education, with each chapter providing valuable insight into the nature and practice of special education today. Aiding understanding and acting as a framework for further study, thought and practice, this innovative new book concerns a wide range of disabilities and disorders and is international in scope.
Chapters discuss:
The historical dimensions of special education
How to engage with the structural frameworks (legal and definitional issues) of...
Contemporary and stimulating, "Looking into Special Education "provides an engaging overview of the key areas of special education, with each chapt...
