Special Needs, Different Abilities: The Interactive Method for Teaching and Learning

This book describes the Interactive Method (IM) for teaching different abilities, special needs, and all learners.

ISBN-13: 9781475849943

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Inc.

Publication Date: 07-24-2019

Pages: 154

Product Dimensions: 5.95(w) x 8.63(h) x 0.43(d)

Marjorie S. Schiering has devoted her career as an educator to developing teacher's and learner's comprehension of self- efficacy through experiential learning, which focuses on the Interactive Method (IM) and its components. She continually addresses sharing the Cognitive Collective (Reciprocal Thinking and Feelings) to establish and maintain a viable, safe, positive and congenial classroom community where there is teaching of thinking.

Table of Contents

Prelude Foreword: Patricia Eckardt and Madeline Craig Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part one: information gathering and distribution concerning special needs and different ability learners Chapter One: Reaching/Teaching Varied Learners Chapter Two: Response to Intervention, Individual Education Plan and Classroom Organization Chapter Three: Individual Processing Style and Social Cognition Chapter Four: The Interactive Method, Student Engagement and Self-Efficacy Chapter Five: Memories and Interactive Learning Techniques Chapter Six: Interactive Learning Technique Pluses, Leadership Building, and Alternative Means of Assessment Chapter Seven: The Reciprocity of Thinking Chapter Eight: The Cognitive Collective: Thinking and Feeling Chapter Nine: Definition and Examples of Reciprocal Thinking Phases’ Skills Part two: different ways of teaching, personal commentaries, and author’s closing thoughts Chapter Ten: The IM’s Self-Reliance and the “How To” of Teaching Thinking Chapter Eleven: Objectives of the Interactive Method and its Components Chapter Twelve: Two Personal Perspectives Addressing Special Education Disabilities, Differences and Diversity: Maggie Blair Autism Awareness: Author Interview of a Different Abilities Child’s Parent: Kevin Cooney Chapter Thirteen: Commentary and Personal Experience: Teaching and Being Special Needs Commentaries and Personal Experiences: Special Needs and Different Abilities Commentary: Engaging Students with Exceptionalities: Patricia Mason A Teacher with Epilepsy: From Childhood through Retirement: Marc Hoberman Chapter Fourteen: Author’s Summative Sharing: Classroom Comfort Zone References About the Author Show More