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Elizabeth A. Stevens; Sharon Vaughn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
The Institute for Education Sciences identifies main idea and summarization instruction as effective practices for improving adolescent students' reading comprehension. Main idea generation is a higher-level comprehension skill that requires students to read the text, connect information across the paragraph or section, determine the most…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing
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Majeika, Caitlyn E.; Wilkinson, Sarah; Kumm, Skip – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Behavior contracts, also known as contingency contracts, have been used as a behavioral strategy for decades (Allen et al., 1993; Bowman-Perrott et al., 2015). Originating from the field of applied behavioral analysis, behavior contracts define behavioral expectations and specify contingent rewards for displaying target behaviors (Cooper et al.,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Contracts, Expectation, Rewards
Weingarten, Zachary; Zumeta Edmonds, Rebecca; Arden, Sarah – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
A large body of research suggests that families' engagement in their children's education is a crucial factor in promoting school success for children and youth. Family engagement in school is associated with improved academic achievement and reductions in social and behavioral problems. Research also suggests that collaboration between schools…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Family Involvement
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Anderson, Alida; Valero, Liora – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
The reading and writing challenges that students with learning disabilities (LD) face in academic classroom settings, such as social studies classrooms, are ever present because students are expected to read, understand, and use text-based language that they cannot access due to text-reading difficulties. Visual, performing or drama, music, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Social Development, Emotional Development, Students with Disabilities
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Rogers, Michelle; Hodge, Janie; Counts, Jennifer – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Although most students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) receive instruction in the general education setting (U.S. Department of Education, 2018), their academic outcomes have been found to be poor. Two evidenced-based practices that improve outcomes for students with SLD are explicit instruction and cognitive and metacognitive strategy…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Self Management, Teaching Methods
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Black, Kristine; Hill, Pamela – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Legislation has paved the way for students with disabilities to be afforded the same educational opportunities as students without disabilities (Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, 2004), leading to the importance of collaboration between special and general education teachers so that students receive effective instruction.…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Meetings, Teacher Collaboration, Special Education Teachers
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Kurth, Jennifer A.; Miller, Amanda L.; Toews, Samantha Gross – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Inclusive education is "a process that helps overcome barriers" to presence, participation, and achievement in school (UNESCO, 2017, p. 7) for all youth, including students who have been historically marginalized and students with disabilities. For youth with disabilities specifically, inclusive education is the provision of necessary…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Special Education, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
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Emerling, Christopher R.; Yang, Sohyun; Carter, Richard A.; Zhang, Ling; Hunt, Tiffany – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures across the country have altered the way educators teach and provide services to students. Engaging technologies in learning environments have become the primary mechanism delivering curriculum and maintaining the intellectual wellbeing of students. With the accelerated expansion of technologies…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence, Distance Education, COVID-19
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Moore, Brooke; Smith, Clara; Boardman, Alison; Ferrell, Amy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Adolescent students with learning disabilities across the United States are not demonstrating gains on reading assessments from previous years, and many are not even achieving at proficient literacy levels (Boulay et al., 2015). Despite their difficulties with reading proficiency, adolescents with learning disabilities are often enrolled in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Video Technology, Reflection
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Morano, Stephanie; Randolph, Kathleen; Markelz, Andrew M.; Church, Naomi – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Math fact fluency involves the quick, accurate retrieval of basic arithmetic combinations and the ability to use this fact knowledge efficiently. Math fact retrieval is typically considered fluent when performed accurately within 2 to 3 seconds, and "efficiency" refers to students' ability to apply fact knowledge to more complex…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Mastery Learning
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FitzPatrick, Erin; McKeown, Debra – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Students across several disability categories share similar writing profiles. Moreover, general education teachers often support groups of writers with various challenges in one setting. Surface-level errors, such as spelling and grammar, are common in the writing of students with learning disabilities (LD), emotional and behavioral disorders…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response), Writing Improvement
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Dazzeo, Robin; Rao, Kavita – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Although the instructional strategy described in this article can be used to support all learners, the purpose of this article is to address the needs of students with learning disabilities, who are often several grade levels behind in reading comprehension. Specifically, this article explores how an explicitly taught instructional practice that…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Sutherland, Marah; Firestone, Allison R.; Doabler, Christian T.; Clarke, Ben – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Given the applicability of measurement to real-world problem solving and the importance of measurement understanding to accessing more advanced mathematics, improving instruction on foundational measurement skills for struggling learners is crucial. Although interventions targeting measurement have a smaller research base than other areas of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Mathematical Concepts
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Nagro, Sarah A.; Hirsch, Shanna E.; Kennedy, Michael J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Strong classroom management may be the key to finding success as a new teacher. Yet many teachers seek additional professional development in managing classrooms that include students with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to provide new teachers and teacher educators with a prescriptive yet self-led approach to systematically improving…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Video Technology, Classroom Observation Techniques, Faculty Development
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Toews, Samantha Gross; Miller, Amanda L.; Kurth, Jennifer A.; Lockman Turner, Elissa – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Given the wide range of academic content and 21st-century college and career readiness (CCR) skills that need to be targeted in secondary classrooms, teachers must be prepared to plan and implement a variety of strategies to ensure the progress and participation of each student, including those with extensive support needs. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Teacher Collaboration, Units of Study
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