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National Center on Intensive Intervention, 2020
In this guide, the authors provide 5 key practices for teachers and families to support all students, including students with disabilities, at school and home. The authors identified a small number of practices that have a big impact on student learning and social-emotional-behavioral growth. These five key practices include: (1) Develop, teach,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Expectation, Teacher Expectations of Students
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2020
Technology, when used appropriately, can empower learning, engage and motivate students, and help make learning interactive. Students can benefit from educational technology because it can personalize instruction and adapt to their strengths and weaknesses. Today's digital tools and resources support and enhance learning at home and in the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Online Courses, Teaching Methods
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2020
This guide is the Spanish version of the "Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide". Technology, when used appropriately, can empower learning, engage and motivate students, and help make learning interactive. Students can benefit from educational technology because it can personalize instruction and adapt to their strengths and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Online Courses, Teaching Methods
Twachtman-Cullen, Diane; Twachtman-Bassett, Jennifer – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
With the skyrocketing diagnoses of ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and related conditions in U.S. schools, there is a growing need for information on creating effective IEPs for exceptional students. The "IEP From A to Z" is a step-by-step guide showing teachers and parents how to get the right education plan in place for students with ADHD,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Individualized Education Programs, Autism, Individualized Instruction
McLane, Kathleen – National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, 2008
As a part of the increasing emphasis among schools on meeting important statewide academic goals, schools are focusing more closely on the progress of individual students. Parents have a similar goal--to monitor the progress of their child. Frequent student progress monitoring accomplishes this common goal, in that it is used to track the progress…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement
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Baum, Susan – Preventing School Failure, 1989
Guidelines are presented to assist in establishing programs to meet the needs of students who are both gifted and learning disabled. The guidelines suggest focusing attention on development of the giftedness, offering a nurturing environment that values individual differences, teaching compensation strategies, and developing awareness of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted Disabled, Individualized Instruction
Kahn, David, Ed. – 1995
This short booklet describes Montessori preschool methods, materials, and environments. The booklet provides background on Maria Montessori and highlights her commitment to facilitating the self-creating process of the child. Preschool years are described as being critical in that they are the peak of children's ability to absorb all that is going…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discovery Learning, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy
Kahn, David, Ed. – 1995
This short booklet describes Montessori elementary education methods, materials, and environments. The booklet discusses 6-year-olds as inquisitive individuals seeking to make sense of their existence and experiences. It also presents a cosmic educational perspective which emphasizes a global world view. Storytelling is discussed as a way to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discovery Learning, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy
Oelwein, Patricia Logan – 1995
This book is designed to give parents and teachers of children with Down syndrome and other developmental delays an alternative reading program. The program is based on a functional, language-experience approach which attempts to compensate for common deficits in auditory memory and verbal skills. The seven chapters of Part 1 describe how children…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Delays, Downs Syndrome
Mackintosh, Helen K.; Guilfoile, Elizabeth – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
Published originally in 1952, the bulletin "How Children Learn to Read" was the first in a series designed to illustrate the philosophy and principles set forth in The Place of Subjects in the Curriculum, Bulletin 1949, No. 12. It was planned to describe as simply as possible, especially for inexperienced teachers and for parents, the process of…
Descriptors: Teachers, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Learning Processes
Milgram, Roberta M., Ed.; And Others – 1993
This book provides theoretical and practical information to meet the challenge of individualizing instruction for gifted and talented adolescents of different learning styles and different cultural backgrounds. Part 1 consists of six chapters that present the broad theoretical background of giftedness and learning style. It includes the following…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Area Studies, Cognitive Style
Harris, Carolyn DeMeyer, Ed.; McKinney, David D., Ed. – 1993
This instructional kit outlines procedures for implementing Project PARTnership, a program for teaching students with disabilities greater self-determination skills through specifically designed arts experiences. An introductory section describes key project activities, including establishing a site steering committee comprised of teachers,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics