Friday, 25 September 2009

Teaching Transition Skills in Inclusive Classrooms Reviews

Teaching Transition Skills in Inclusive Classrooms



Author: Cassandra Cole Ed.D.
Edition: First
Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1598572334
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Teaching Transition Skills in Inclusive Classrooms (Brookes Transition to Adulthood)



How can high schools teach academic content and the critical skills students need to navigate life beyond the classroom? Fitting it all into one curriculum can be a challenge-and this book helps you juggle it all, ensuring personalized, student-centered instruction that prepares students with and without disabilities for success.Teaching Transition Skills in Inclusive Classrooms review. /p>


This book introduces a unified framework for transition services in an integrated, cohesive process that gets all students ready for college, careers and citizenship. With six model lesson plans aligned with Common Core State Standards (see sidebar), this guidebook helps educators and transition specialists make key improvements to transition services and instructional practices. You'll learn the basics of





  • raising expectations for all students through rigorous, personalized, and standards-based instruction

  • improving access to the general curriculum for students with special needs

  • developing meaningful transition IEPs based on students' strengths, preferences, and needs

  • blending quality transition services and quality instructional practices into one integrated approach

  • weaving in additional adaptations and accommodations for students with more significant support needs

  • connecting academic content to practical, real-world contexts


To help you strengthen your practices right away, you'll get practical tips and activities, specific examples of embedding transition skills into good classroom instruction, and recurring case studies that follow two students with different support needs and interests. And the included forms-assessment tools, student profile sheets, self-evaluations, and more-will help you gather and organize key information on each studentRead full reviews of Teaching Transition Skills in Inclusive Classrooms (Brookes Transition to Adulthood).

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Teaching Transition Skills in Inclusive Classrooms Reviews


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This book introduces a unified framework for transition services in an integrated, cohesive process that gets all students ready for college, careers and citizenship. With six model lesson plans aligned with Common Core State Standards (see sidebar), this guidebook helps educators and transition specialists make key improvements to transition services and instructional practices. You'll learn the basics of





  • raising expectations for all students through rigorous, personalized, and standards-based instruction

  • improving access to the general curriculum for students with special needs

  • developing meaningful transition IEPs based on students' strengths, preferences, and needs

  • blending quality transition services and quality instructional practices into one integrated approach

  • weaving in additional adaptations and accommodations for students with more significant support needs

  • connecting academic content to practical, real-world contexts


To help you strengthen your practices right away, you'll get practical tips and activities, specific examples of embedding transition skills into good classroom instruction, and recurring case studies that follow two students with different support needs and interests. And the included forms-assessment tools, student profile sheets, self-evaluations, and more-will help you gather and organize key information on each student.




A must-have guide for all education professionals in inclusive high schools, this book will help you meet Common Core State Standards while fully preparing all students to succeed: in college, in the workplace, and in life.


[sidebar] Sample lesson plans aligned with Common Core State Standards!





  • U.S. History (Civil Rights)

  • Integrated Math and Consumer Science (Buying a Car)

  • Health and Wellness (You Are What You Eat)

  • Science (Ecosystems)

  • Spanish (Conversation basics)

  • English (Job application and resume)


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