What do you do when a three-year-old with autism falls on the floor kicking and screaming?How do you communicate with a child who looks away and flaps his hands?Who can help if you suspect a child in your class has autism?Preschool can be overwhelming for a child with autism. Au…
This guide discusses autism in a straightforward way, describes the major types of autism, and discusses the major characteristics associated with the disorder. Chapters help teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world and focus on setting up a proactiv…
This book presents a human development model for understanding and treating age-related deficits that seem to be characteristic of individuals with learning disabilities. It is the culmination of years of clinical experience, qualitative research, and scholarship in the search f…
This book presents a human development model for understanding and treating age-related deficits that seem to be characteristic of individuals with learning disabilities. It is the culmination of years of clinical experience, qualitative research, and scholarship in the search f…
This study considers the major issues in science education today. It covers the main aspects of science teaching and learning including planning and managing differentation, ICT in science teaching and other topics.
"The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction is an authoritative reference work exploring the latest research, methodologies, and theories related to classroom language, teaching, and learning"--
One of the hallmarks of a quality liberal arts education is providing undergraduates the opportunity to wrestle with controversial issues. Yet many teachers feel ill-equipped when it comes to broaching disagreeable topics, managing the resulting heated debates, or helping studen…
"Like most good educational interventions, problem-based learning (PBL) did not grow out of theory, but out of a practical problem. Medical students were bored, dropping out, and unable to apply what they had learned in lectures to their practical experiences a couple of years l…
"Educational Psychology explores the role of the educational psychologist, firstly by examining cognitive development, cognitive psychology and individual differences and secondly through the analysis of social development and social psychology. Controversies and dilemmas in res…
by Pomerol, Jean-Charles, Epelboin, Yves, Thoury, Claire
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This book is, in a sense, a text-book of educational psychology designed mainly for those with little previous knowledge of the subject. But it is not a conventional text-book. It breaks with tradition in several ways. To begin with it does not cover the whole area which normall…
