Special Needs, Different Abilities

The Interactive Method for Teaching and Learning

Marjorie S. Schiering (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

154 Seiten

2019
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781475849936 (ISBN)

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This book describes the Interactive Method (IM) for teaching different abilities, special needs, and all learners. It involves hand’s-on techniques for retention of curriculum and the teaching of thinking; from the elementary through college years. Types of comprehension are defined along with how memory works. Chapters address types of special needs and defines the term and different abilities, in conjunction with creating lessons that result in memory acquisition and transference to personal success on tests or exams, as well as daily situations regarding experiential learning. Also offered are entry level means of instruction for developing a sense of self-confidence, efficacy, reliance and skills necessary for future learning challenges. In conjunction with this is the Reciprocal Thinking Skills Cognition to Metacognition Chart for identification and application of what one is thinking when engaged in the aforementioned IM. A few examples of this are provided through a listing and explanation of the values of this method, lesson objectives and application of these. Personal narratives are provided by teachers and/or parents of children with different abilities before the author’s closing comments respective of one’s being enough and practice of providing lift-up statements to encourage student learners in the academic and social cognition environments.

Marjorie S. Schieringhas devoted her career as an educator to developing teacher’s and learner’s comprehension of self- efficacy through experiential learning, which focuses on the Interactive Method (IM) and its components. She continually addresses sharing the Cognitive Collective (Reciprocal Thinking and Feelings) to establish and maintain a viable, safe, positive and congenial classroom community where there is teaching of thinking.

Prelude

Foreword: Patricia Eckardt and Madeline Craig

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part one: information gathering and distribution concerning special needs and different ability learners

Chapter One: Reaching/Teaching Varied Learners

Chapter Two: Response to Intervention, Individual Education Plan and Classroom Organization

Chapter Three: Individual Processing Style and Social Cognition

Chapter Four: The Interactive Method, Student Engagement and Self-Efficacy

Chapter Five: Memories and Interactive Learning Techniques

Chapter Six:Interactive Learning Technique Pluses, Leadership Building, and Alternative Means of Assessment

Chapter Seven: The Reciprocity of Thinking

Chapter Eight: The Cognitive Collective: Thinking and Feeling

Chapter Nine: Definition and Examples of Reciprocal Thinking Phases’ Skills

Part two: different ways of teaching, personal commentaries, and author’s closing thoughts

Chapter Ten:The IM’s Self-Reliance and the “How To” of Teaching Thinking

Chapter Eleven: Objectives of the Interactive Method and its Components

Chapter Twelve: Two Personal Perspectives Addressing Special Education

Disabilities, Differences and Diversity: Maggie Blair

Autism Awareness: Author Interview of a Different Abilities Child’s Parent: Kevin Cooney

Chapter Thirteen: Commentary and Personal Experience: Teaching and Being Special Needs

Commentaries and Personal Experiences: Special Needs and Different Abilities

Commentary: Engaging Students with Exceptionalities: Patricia Mason

A Teacher with Epilepsy: From Childhood through Retirement: Marc Hoberman

Chapter Fourteen: Author’s Summative Sharing: Classroom Comfort Zone

References

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
ISBN-13	9781475849936 / 9781475849936
Zustand	Neuware