Educators
Teachers and counselors are often in the frontlines when it comes to working with children with differences in learning. Educators, particularly those who work with diverse learners, face many challenges in their work with children, parents, and school administration. The information and resources included here are intended to help you overcome some of the obstacles in your demanding but rewarding and very important work.
If you have any specific resources that you use in your work and feel should be included on our list, please let us know by emailing us.
BOOKS
The books we list have been recommended by teachers, counselors and other educators who have used them in their work and rely upon them to guide them in their work with students who learn differently.
Jossey-Bass (1998)
416 pages (paperback)
This comprehensive resource for teachers, counselors and parents contains information and practical strategies to help students with attention deficits learn to control and change their own behaviors and build the academic, social, and personal skills necessary for success in school and in life. The Kit first explains ADD/ADHD behavior, its biological bases and basic characteristics and describes procedures used for diagnosis and various treatment options. It then details a set of training exercises and programs in which teachers, counselors and parents work together to monitor and manage the child's behavior to achieve the desired results.
The Guilford Press (2007)
418 pages
This evidence-based book distills knowledge about literacy teaching and learning into clear strategies for helping children succeed. Within a comprehensive conceptual framework, the field's leading authorities provide practical recommendations to guide instructional decision making. This revised and expanded third edition has been updated with research findings, policy issues, and program innovations. It offers revised coverage of assessment, motivation, approaches to integrating different kinds of texts and multimedia resources, and adolescent literacy. New chapters address working with English-language learners and supporting teachers' professional development. Also featured is a new concluding commentary by Michael Pressley.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co (1997)
400 pages (paperback)
This book is not new, but is still a strong resource, especially in this updated, easier to use format which makes COACH easier to use. It features redesigned forms; more detailed explanations; and explicit instructions on "purpose," "directions," "materials needed"; and "helpful hints" for each step. Tabs and icons make information easy to find. Using the established and field-tested methods of COACH, special and general educators, related services providers, and school administrators can collaborate with families and work toward developing a meaningful IEP for each student.
Jossey-Bass (2001)
400 pages (paperback)
This is the third edition of this classic resource, with comprehensive information, strategies, and activities for working with learning disabled students. The book offers special educators, classroom teachers, and parents numerous proven suggestions and ready-to-use materials for helping students of all ages learn and perform at their fullest potential.
Corwin Press (2006)
208 pages (paperback)
This book provides readers with strategies for working with a diverse classroom. Teachers will learn how to plan to meet the needs of the wide variety of students in today’s highly diverse classroom. Presented in an easy-to-use format, practical techniques and processes are shared that can be used to plan and adjust learning based on pre-assessment of individual students’ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs.
Simon & Schuster (2003)
352 pages (paperback)
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Dr. Levine shows parents and educators how to identify students’ individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure in school and in life. Publisher’s Weekly calls this book “a must-read for parents and educators who want to understand and improve the school lives of children.”
Wiley (2007)
2016 pages in the 3 volume set (books can be purchased individually or as a set)
This comprehensive resource features school psychology, neuropsychology, reviews of new tests and curricula that have been developed since publication of the second edition in 1999, and biographies of important figures in special education. The Encyclopedia of Special Education, Third Edition addresses issues of importance ranging from theory to practice and is a helpful reference for researchers as well as those working in the special education field.
Heinemann (1996)
424 pages (paperback)
This book is a comprehensive guided reading resource and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents. It is not new, but still quite helpful.
National Academies Press (2000)
374 pages (paperback)
When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do to help children learn most effectively? This still timely book offers research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions.
Jossey-Bass (2005)
464 pages (paperback)
Sandra Rief offers myriad real-life case studies, interviews, and student intervention plans for children with ADD/ADHD. In addition, the book contains best teaching practices and strategies for enhancing classroom performance for all types of students.
The Guilford Press (2006)
324 pages (hardcover)
This book addresses classification, assessment, and intervention for a range of disabilities involved in reading, mathematics, and written expression. With a focus on exploring the evolving scientific base of the field, as well as establishing effective educational practices, this book will serve as a resource for school psychologists, neuropsychologists, special educators, and others who work with struggling learners.
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WEBSITES
The number of websites with information for educators is growing exponentially. We can only offer a few sites of the many that offer helpful information and, as with all the resources we list on our website, we hope you will let us know of other sites you have found helpful.
Madison University’s Special Education Program, has excellent resources for secondary students, teachers of middle and secondary levels, and parents of students with learning difficulties. It contains strategies to use when teaching students about organization, test taking skills, note taking and study skills, as well as ideas for content-area teaching and learning.
This website contains articles on instructional strategies for teaching students with LD or ADHD.
This website provides strategies to help effectively teach English Language Learners, which are often very useful in helping all struggling learners.
The articles included on this website are drawn from TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC), a publication of The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). TEC is published specifically for teachers and administrators of children with disabilities and children who are gifted and features practical articles that present methods and materials for classroom use as well as current issues in special education teaching and learning.
This site, which is frequently reviewed by elementary, middle and high school teachers for educational relevance, provides innovative teaching materials.
This is a collection of useful learning strategies for both students and instructors.
PALS is funded through Virginia Reads grants and the University of Virginia. The PALS website includes more than a hundred instructional suggestions and activities to help struggling young readers.
Created by Laura Kump, a teacher and literacy coach in New York City, this site provides support to teachers throughout the country. Teachers come to her site to network and share ideas. There are many free resources housed here, along with discussion groups.
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ANNUAL CONFERENCES
Hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, MA. This fall conference focuses on the connection between neuroscience and how current research shapes what we know about teaching and learning. It is geared towards teachers, administrators and clinicians.
This conference, hosted by the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children, occurs each fall in different cities.
AHEAD’s summer conference brings together professionals in the fields of higher education and disability for a week of information-sharing, networking and theoretical and practical training.
This conference occurs each fall in changing cities. It offers educators high-quality topical sessions that are responsive to important issues in the field of learning disabilities.
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