Exam Preparation

This book addresses the legislative and research foundation for teaching self-determination.

This teacher's guide introduces school behaviors for before, during, and after class.
Critical organization and time management skills are key elements.

This guide discusses how teaches can help their
students develop important reading skills such as previewing, active
reading, indentation note-taking, visual displays, and summarization.

Alternate Assessments for Students with Disabilities clearly explains the "why" of alternate assessment and supports this with lots of "how to" information.

This book describes characteristics of good
assessments, testing accommodations, alternate assessments, and best
practices for inclusive assessment programs and educational
accountability.

As the best-selling professional resource in its
field, this text offers basic assessment information and a handbook of
honest, even-handed reviews of the most common K–12 standardized tests.

The purpose of this text is to integrate the
areas of testing and decision making, focusing on improvement of
instruction and student learning.

Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' ability to capture teachers' knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.

This book presents the foundation of the principles of Direct Instruction. These are presented in strategies and templates for various areas of instruction and support systematic, consistent teaching.

This popular book investigates the teaching, instruction and curricula required to meet the needs of diverse learners who, by virtue of their experiential, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, challenge traditional curriculum and instructional programs.

This book addresses the 13 competencies
identified by the National Occupational Information Coordinating
Committee as basic to effective performance by career development
practitioners.

How the Special Needs Brain Learns
shows how the brain processes information and examines both simple and
complex learning strategies that can be adapted and taught to special
needs students.

This comprehensive,
practical resource gives educators at all levels essential information,
techniques, and tools for understanding dyslexia and adapting teaching
methods in all subject areas to meet the learning style, social, and
emotional needs of students who have dyslexia.

The purpose of this book is to help educators
increase their proficiency in analyzing and teaching writing to
students with learning disabilities.

This comprehensive book presents a proactive behavior management system for decreasing behavior problems in the classroom and the school, plus a full range of strategies for correcting disruptive behavior once it has occurred. The research-based behavior management plan includes assessment, lesson plan creation, and a list of management strategies.

This website provides information on:
disabilities in infants, toddlers, children, and youth; IDEA; No Child
Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities); and
research-based information on effective educational practices.

This book supplies an essential framework for
defining and planning transition, addresses facilitation and support of
transition, and discusses ways of customizing transition service
delivery to people with specific types of disabilities.

This site contains many helpful links related to numerous facets of special education. Resources are divided into categories for easy navigation.

From the abstract: "The purpose of this paper is to set the context for the development of research quality indicators and guidelines for evidence of effective practices provided by different methodologies."

This text's contemporary treatment of special education prepares teachers
for their role in the education and well-being of students with special
needs.

TeachSpecialEd.com offers standards-based, online instruction that addresses the key subject matter knowledge that is required for certification in Special Education. These self-paced courses guide you through research-based instruction strategies and include many activities and assessments so that you can test your understanding of the material. Each of the 10 courses can be purchased individually for targeted preparation or you can purchase all ten courses for more comprehensive preparation.

To purchase these courses, visit TeachSpecialEd.com.

The Access Center is a national technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs whose mission is to improve educational outcomes for elementary and middle school students with disabilities. Their website includes webinars on important topics in special education, information briefs, presentations, toolkits, and video clips.