R&L Education
Pages: 112
Trim: 6 x 9⅛
978-0-8108-4702-6 • Paperback • June 2003 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
978-0-585-47997-2 • eBook • June 2003 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Marcie Nordlund is currently an elementary school principal in a Chicago suburb. Previously, she has been a special education administrator, public speaker, college instructor, and a classroom teacher in both regular and special education.
Chapter 1 1 The Big Picture
Chapter 2 2 How to Get Started
Chapter 3 3 Students with Cognitive Impairments
Chapter 4 4 Children With Difficulties Attending to Task
Chapter 5 5 Students With Learning Disabilities and Students Identified as Slow Learners
Chapter 6 6 Children Whose Native Language is Not English
Chapter 7 7 Children With Above-Average Abilities
Chapter 8 8 Students At Risk of Failure
Chapter 9 9 Classroom Management
Chapter 10 10 Bringing the Staff Together
Chapter 11 Rules
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Chapter 13 Index
Chapter 14 About the Author
Very informative...a useful addition to a collection relating to differentiation, adaptations, and modifications for children with learning problems. Recommended.....
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This book is very timely, given that schools and classrooms include a wide spectrum of learning styles and abilities and are increasingly diverse in terms of educationally disadvantaged students, students with language and cultural differences, and various other 'at-risk' factors. Couple that with accountability of No Child Left Behind and the content of Nordlund's book becomes pretty significant. The book is written primarily for classroom teachers, but is essential reading for principals in their rolesas instructional leaders....comprehensible, practical, and very readable...
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