Teaching, learning, and behavior management.

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Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction
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Chapter 5
Teaching, Learning,
and Behavior
Management
Based on: Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction,
by Rosenberg, Westling, and McLeskey (second edition)

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Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction
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Chapter 5 Questions
• What are some ways that teachers can adapt curriculum
and instruction for students who have special education
needs?
• What instructional approaches can teachers use to
effectively teach students with special needs in inclusive
classrooms?
• What are systematic, proactive, and positive behavior
management systems for schools and classrooms?

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Nine Types of Adaptations
 Input
 Output
 Size
 Time
 Difficulty
 Level of Support
 Participation
 Modified Goals
 Substitute Curriculum

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Modifying Curriculum
Curriculum = content taught in school
(knowledge, skills and materials)
• Taxonomies
• Planning Pyramids
• Universal Design for Learning

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Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
Creating
Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.
Evaluating
Justifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging
Analysing
Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding
Applying
Using information in another familiar situation
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
Understanding
Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining
Remembering
Recalling information
Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

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Planning Pyramid

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Evidence-based Teaching
Approaches
• Behavioral: Direct/Explicit Instruction
• Behavioral/Cognitive: Strategic Instruction

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Systematic Teaching
• Grouping for Instruction
• Presenting Content
• Opportunities for Practice
 Guided Practice
 Independent Practice
• Monitoring Student Performance

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Using Technology
• Instructional technology (used to
enhance teaching and learning)
• Assistive technology (used to increase
or maintain functional capabilities)

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Three Tiers of Behavior
Management

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INCLUDE Strategy -
Assumptions
• Student performance is the result of
interactions between students and the
instructional environment.
• By analyzing students needs and demands
of the classroom environment, teachers can
make appropriate decisions about changes
needed for particular students.

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Instructional Environment
From Planning Instruction by Analyzing Classroom and Student Needs by Marilyn Friend & William Bursuck.
http://www.ablongman.com/html/productinfo/friend4e/contents/0321317742_ch05.pdf

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INCLUDE Strategy - Steps
• Identify environmental demands
• Note strengths and needs
• Check for potential success
• Look for possible problems
• Use information to brainstorm
• Decide upon adaptations, modifications,
and/or interventions
• Evaluate student progress
From Planning Instruction by Analyzing Classroom and Student Needs by Marilyn Friend & William Bursuck.
http://www.ablongman.com/html/productinfo/friend4e/contents/0321317742_ch05.pdf