For courses in Introduction to Special Education, Exceptionalities or Mainstreaming. For over two decades, professors at more than 350 colleges and universities have relied on this comprehensive, engaging text for professional research, current practice, and trends in special education. Grounded in scholarship, yet written with the human experience in mind, this best-selling book effectively conveys the stories of teachers and children in special education. This latest edition adds a focus on master teachers and integrates professional standards from CEC and PRAXISaA A to make this the best text to help you train effective special educators and to introduce pre- and inservice general education teachers to exceptional children.
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Widely recognized for its innovation, strong research base, and accessibility, the new edition of William Heward's Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education helps prepare readers to become effective special educators using three themes:
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS ENGAGE IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CEC Professional Standards and Praxis Competencies: Through joint agreements with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and the Educational Testing Services, new CEC and PRAXIS margin notes link critical text content to knowledge and skill statements from CEC's Professional Standards for Beginning Teachers and to material on PRAXIS tests for special educators.
Observe Master Teachers: New to this edition, each chapter opens with the profile of a real teacher of exceptional children. Drawn from urban, suburban, and rural environments, these teachers' stories reflect the joys, challenges, and realities of actual classrooms and allow readers to observe master teachers at work.
The Most Current Coverage: This edition provides coverage of the latest assistive technologies such as hand-held PDAs, the newly revised 2002 definition and classification system for mental retardation issued by the AAMR, and hundreds of new references.
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS KNOW THEIR STUDENTS AND KNOW WHAT WORKS
Effective Intervention Strategies: "Teaching & Learning" feature boxes describe proven strategies that are classroom-tested and validated by research.
First-Person Accounts: "Profiles & Perspectives" feature boxes highlight the struggles and triumphs of persons with disabilities and share the views of parents, special educators, and other professionals.
Depth of Coverage: Exceptional Children provides the most comprehensive coverage of the characteristics of learners with special needs. For example, this is the only text in the market that devotes complete chapters to early childhood special education, transition to adulthood, and working with parents and families.
EFFECTIVE: TEACHERS INCORPORATE MULTIMEDIA
Companion Website: Located at www.prenhall.com/heward, the user-friendly Companion Website (CW) provides online resources for professors as well as students and is integrated into the textbook via CW margin notes.
Online Courses: Robust web-based courses in Course Compass and Blackboard formats are easy to implement, manage, and use, and help you incorporate technology into your classroom or deliver instruction online.
Teaching and Learning Video Library: The Teaching and Learning Video Library contains five compelling videos with topics ranging from inclusion, IDEA, and IEP decision making to classwide peer tutoring and post-secondary transitions.
Developing Quality IEPs: A Case-Based Tutorial CD-ROM: The free CD-ROM packaged with every copy of the text walks students through the development of IEPs, providing two interactive tutorials, six case studies, and a variety of additional resources.
About the Author
William Lee Heward grew up in Three Oaks, Michigan, rooting for his hero Ernie Banks and the Chicago Cubs. He majored in psychology and sociology as an undergraduate at Western Michigan University, earned his doctorate in special education at the University of Massachusetts, and joined the special education faculty at The Ohio State University in 1975. In 1985, Bill received Ohio State University's highest honor for teaching excellence, the Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award. He has had several opportunities to teach and lecture abroad, most recently in 1993 when he served as a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Keio University in Tokyo.
Bill's current research interests focus on "low tech" methods classroom teachers can use to increase the frequency with which each student actively responds and participates during group instruction and on methods for promoting the generalization and maintenance of newly learned skills.
His research has appeared in the field's leading journals, including Behavioral Disorders, Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Exceptional Children, Journal of Special Education, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, Research in Developmental Disabilities, Teacher Education and Special Education, and Teaching Exceptional Children.
Bill has coauthored four other textbooks, and he has written for the popular market.. His book Some Are Called Clowns (Crowell, 1974) chronicled his five summers as a pitcher for the Indianapolis Clowns, the last of the barnstorming baseball teams.
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This review is from: Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (7th Edition) (Hardcover)
I was astonished by both how readable this book is and how much useful information is presented. The book is designed for those entering the field of education and those studying for the Praxis II exam. While the book is targeted to the teaching of exceptional children, regular education teachers, parents and other interested parties would gain a great deal of information from this book. Our assignment was to skim the book - a task I found nearly impossible. I kept getting drawn into the interesting and vivid examples in each chapter. I found the focus questions and review sections to be particularly helpful.
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Great book for teachers!,
By Holly Go-Lightly (PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (7th Edition) (Hardcover)
This is a great book for teachers to learn more about dealing with children who have exceptionalities. If you are a new teacher or an experienced teacher dealing with inclusion, this book will be perfect for you!
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Exceptional Children, Unexceptioanl Book,
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This review is from: Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (7th Edition) (Hardcover)
Unreadable because unnecessary educational jargon. The author, with or without supports in a diverse, holistic, or deficit-challenged writing community should assess George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language.
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