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Grade-Aligned Math Instruction for Secondary Students with Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Browder, Diane M.; Jimenez, Bree A.; Trela, Katherine – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of grade-aligned math instruction on math skill acquisition of four middle schools with moderate intellectual disability. Teachers were trained to follow a task analysis to teach grade-aligned math to middle school students using adapted math problem stories and graphic organizers. The teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, Task Analysis, Mathematics Instruction
Explorations in Second Language Reading
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Cohen, Roger, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2009
The chapters in "Explorations in Second Language Reading" reveal the importance of reading in the classroom and how instructors can use reading as a bridge to improve learners' other linguistic and interpersonal skills. Most significantly, each author prompts us to rediscover how enjoyable ESOL reading can be and how it can increase learner…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Activity Units, Reading Materials, Reading Ability
Our Country of Many People: The Ever-Changing Mosaic--An Anti-Bias Unit of Immigration
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Ghattas, Jacqueline; Moretti, Adrienne – Childhood Education, 2006
Immigrant children can find it especially difficult to establish their place in the classroom community. As children of immigrants, the authors have experienced, first hand, the difficulties that one faces when placed in a new culture and have seen how this aspect of their backgrounds affects them and their families. Consequently, they created…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Immigrants, Classroom Environment, Multicultural Education