Chapter 5: Teaching, Learning, and Behavior Management

Rosenberg/Westling/McLeskeySpecial Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction

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Chapter 5Teaching, Learning, and Behavior Management

Based on: Special Education for Today’s Teachers: An Introduction, by Rosenberg, Westling, and McLeskey (second edition)



Chapter 5 Questions• What are some ways that teachers can adapt curriculum

and instruction for students who have special education needs?

• What instructional approaches can teachers use to effectively teach students with special needs in inclusive classrooms?

• What are systematic, proactive, and positive behavior management systems for schools and classrooms?



Nine Types of AdaptationsInputOutputSizeTimeDifficultyLevel of SupportParticipation

Modified GoalsSubstitute Curriculum



Modifying CurriculumCurriculum = content taught in school (knowledge, skills and materials)• Taxonomies• Planning Pyramids• Universal Design for Learning

http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/learn.php



Bloom’s Revised TaxonomyCreating

Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

EvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of action

Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging

AnalysingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships

Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding

ApplyingUsing information in another familiar situation

Implementing, carrying out, using, executing

UnderstandingExplaining ideas or concepts

Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

RememberingRecalling information

Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding



Planning Pyramid



Evidence-based Teaching Approaches

• Behavioral: Direct/Explicit Instruction

• Behavioral/Cognitive: Strategic Instruction

http://explicitinstruction.org/

http://www.parentcenterhub.org/wp-content/uploads/repo_items/eestrategy.pdf



Systematic Teaching• Grouping for Instruction• Presenting Content• Opportunities for Practice

Guided Practice Independent Practice

• Monitoring Student Performance



Using Technology • Instructional technology (used to

enhance teaching and learning)

• Assistive technology (used to increase or maintain functional capabilities)

http://www.ablenetinc.com/Assistive-Technology



Three Tiers of Behavior Management



INCLUDE Strategy - Assumptions• Student performance is the result of

interactions between students and the instructional environment.

• By analyzing students needs and demands of the classroom environment, teachers can make appropriate decisions about changes needed for particular students.



Instructional Environment

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INCLUDE Strategy - Steps• Identify environmental demands

• Note strengths and needs

• Check for potential success

• Look for possible problems

• Use information to brainstorm

• Decide upon adaptations, modifications, and/or interventions

• Evaluate student progressFrom Planning Instruction by Analyzing Classroom and Student Needs by Marilyn Friend & William Bursuck.http://www.ablongman.com/html/productinfo/friend4e/contents/0321317742_ch05.pdf

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