Memoirs from Special Education

Memoirs from Special Education After a deadly crash, high-school student Sam Appleton awakens to find everyone treating him as if he has a mental handicap. Even though he didn‘t really have brain damage, he follows along and quickly finds himself in a frightening and appalling place: the world of a mentally handicapped individual. Sam makes [...]

Your Introduction to Education: Explorations in Teaching (2nd Edition)

Your Introduction to Education: Explorations in Teaching (2nd Edition) Sara Davis Powell’s Your Introduction to Education is the Introduction to Teaching/Foundations text – built from the ground up on authentic classroom experience – that empowers future teachers to explore content and classrooms, reflect on what they’re learning, and develop their own sense of the kind of [...]

Adapted Physical Education and Sport – 5th Edition

Adapted Physical Education and Sport – 5th Edition SHK01603 Through this latest edition of Adapted Physical Education and Sport, you can provide top-quality physical education for youth with disabilities and help them get the most out of their sport participation. This new edition is updated to keep you current with today’s trends in adapted physical [...]

Early Childhood Education Today (11th Edition)

Early Childhood Education Today (11th Edition) This comprehensive, best-selling text on Introduction to Early Childhood Education focuses on the early care and education of young children from birth to age eight.    Written at a time of change in education, the author writes about the challenges facing early child educators today.  More than ever before, teachers [...]

Introducing Christian Education: Foundations for the Twenty-first Century

Introducing Christian Education: Foundations for the Twenty-first Century ISBN13: 9780801022753 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Learn how to successfully integrate biblical studies and theology with education, sociology, and psychology in this introductory textbook on Christian education. Michael Anthony [...]

Foundations of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sport Reviews

Foundations of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sport Integrating the traditional presentation of the nature, scope, philosophy, and history of physical education and sport with the growing career opportunities available within this dynamic field, this text addresses the challenges and the future of the discipline. It emphasizes preparation for a diversity of careers, addressing areas [...]

Assessment in Early Childhood Education (6th Edition)

Assessment in Early Childhood Education (6th Edition) Written for preschool and primary school teachers involved in preparing for, administering, interpreting, and moving forward with the results of informal and standardized testing, Wortham’s Assessment in Early Childhood Education, Sixth Edition, is one of the most accessible and practical  books available in measurement and evaluation examines both [...]

Financing Education in a Climate of Change (11th Edition)

Financing Education in a Climate of Change (11th Edition) For educational administration and leadership students taking school finance courses.   A popular, user-friendly school finance text that is both current and comprehensive.   The newly revised eleventh edition of this classic school finance text retains its practical tone and superior presentation while adding the most [...]

Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications Reviews

Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications is a state-of-the art methods book that provides a broad introduction to successful school health programming to reduce health risks and promote school success. Now in its Seventh Edition, the text continues to emphasize the skills needed to teach health, while [...]

Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education: Building a Foundation

Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education: Building a Foundation This text, written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, provides the building blocks for understanding effective practices in early childhood education.  Building upon the Developmentally Appropriate Practice framework that she conceptualized, Sue Bredekamp shows how effective teaching practices can make a difference in [...]

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition provides a clear roadmap to the laws and how to get better services for all children with disabilities. This Wrightslaw publication is an invaluable resource for parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys. You will refer to this book again and again. List Price: $ [...]

Toward a Science of Education

Toward a Science of Education Whether you’re aware of it or not, there’s a battle raging out there in our public schools; the fight for supremacy between rogue and real science. Former special education department chair at the University of Virginia, James Kauffman has been on the front lines of this skirmish for a good [...]

Comprehensive School Health Education: Totally Awesome Strategies For Teaching Health

Comprehensive School Health Education: Totally Awesome Strategies For Teaching Health A market leader, this book continues to be the most thorough text and resource for preparing elementary-, middle-, and secondary-school instructors to teach health. Students who use this text in a methods class keep it both as a reference for student-teaching and throughout their teaching [...]

Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World

Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school s curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today?With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes [...]

American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges First published in 1998, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century offers a comprehensive entree to the central issues facing American colleges and universities today. This thoroughly revised edition brings the volume up to date on key topics of enduring interest.Placing higher education [...]

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America ISBN13: 9781400052455 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. [...]

Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice (with MyEducationLab) (7th Edition) Reviews

Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice (with MyEducationLab) (7th Edition) Comprehensive Multicultural Education provides a balanced and comprehensive approach to multicultural education overview of the different types of diversity and practical strategies delivered through lesson plans and cases.   A balanced approach for pre-service teachers and others new to the field of multicultural education, this [...]

Exceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education (11th Edition)

Exceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education (11th Edition) Exceptional Learners is an outstanding introduction to the characteristics of exceptional learners and their education, emphasizing classroom practices as well as the psychological, sociological, and medical aspects of disabilities and giftedness.  In keeping with this era of accountability, all discussions and examples of educational practices are grounded [...]

Foundations of American Education (6th Edition)

Foundations of American Education (6th Edition) The Sixth Edition of Foundations of American Education emphasizes the defining topics in education today – a diverse population, an increasingly globalized society, and the impact of standards and assessment on student learning. Explore this text to gain an understanding of how the evolution of education affects today’s teaching [...]

Guide to Writing Quality Individualized Education Programs (2nd Edition)

Guide to Writing Quality Individualized Education Programs (2nd Edition) This bestselling guide helps users reduce the complexity of IEP development to seven basic steps, based on the requirements of IDEA 2004.  It helps prepare teacher candidates with excellent IEP-writing skills, and gives inservice teachers an accurate resource for their continuing professional development in this critical [...]

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