A -Z of Special Needs for Every Teacher
A-Z of Special Needs is our most popular, upto date, useful and easy-to-use comprehensive resource guide to Special Education Needs. It offers you an A-Z dictionary of special needs conditions. It is an essential text for anyone teaching children or young people with educational special needs, and can be especially helpful when working with pupils with specific special needs conditions.
The A-Z of Special Needs for Every Teacher is a comprehensive reference resource for anyone working with pupils with learning difficulties or disabilities. It will help busy Special Needs Coordinators to provide support for pupils, parents, class teachers and teaching assistants across all grades. Other staff members will find it useful as an off-the-shelf reference for looking up answers to queries.
This book includes:
- A comprehensive glossary of terms, acronyms and abbreviations used by practitioners working with pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities.
- A clear guide to the 'barriers to learning' likely to be encountered by mainstream class teachers or tutors.
- Each condition or syndrome is given a general description, followed by a listing of its main characteristics and an extensive range of practical support strategies to suit pupils of all ages.
- Proformas - these are designed to support the Special Needs Coordinator as well as the class teacher in a variety of ways in order to simplify the challenge of recording individual needs and progress.
The proformas in this resource include: - School Improvement Plan, Special Education Needs Plan, Individual Education Plan, Class learning difficulties grid, Lesson planning sheets for teaching assistants - Group observation and recording sheet for teaching assistants - Individual observation and recording sheet for teaching assistants, - Handy hints for TAs - Provision map - Skills target set - Personal profile sheet
This resource is full cross-referenced to be an indispensable guide to learning difficulties and disabilities across all age-groups. This resource has been designed for every teacher.
Ages: All
About Authors:
Ann Callander is an educational writer who is experienced in working with children, class teachers, teaching assistants and other professionals. She has taught in both the primary and secondary sectors and has worked in the area of Special Needs for over 20 years.
Jacquie Buttriss taught for nearly 30 years across all ages from K-12, as well as in further and higher education. During this time, one of her roles was in Primary Special Needs. She was a primary headteacher for seven years and also had a number of other roles in educational training and support.
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