Full Description
Students with severe disabilities comprise 2 percent of the population of learners who are impacted by intellectual, communicative, social, emotional, physical, sensory and medical issues. Increasingly, however, teachers are required to meet the challenges of creating a pedagogical balance between an individual student's strengths, needs and preferences, and core academic curricula. The need to embrace the current initiative of curriculum state standards in the debate of curricula relevance, breadth, balance and depth for students with severe disabilities is not just timely—it contributes to the evolving debate of what constitutes an appropriate curriculum for severely disabled learners.
Curricula for Students with Severe Disabilities supports the development of greater understandings of the role that state curriculum standards play in the pedagogical decision-making for students with severe intellectual disabilities. The book first discusses the nature and needs of these students, the curriculum for this group of learners and the recent contributions of state curriculum standards, before presenting narratives of real classrooms, teachers and students who have meaningfully integrated state curriculum standards at the kindergarten, elementary and high school levels.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Section One
Introduction
Chapter One: The Changing Landscape of Teaching: What are the issues?
Chapter Two: Building Understandings of Students
Chapter Three: Curriculum Considerations and Pedagogical Decision Making
Chapter Four: What Are Curriculum Content Standards?
Section Two
Introduction
Chapter Five: Fact or Fiction with Vilmary Tautiva
Chapter Six: Hatchet with Lora Reese
Chapter Seven: Rhyming Literary Device: Green Eggs and Ham with David Hass
Chapter Eight: Difficult Decisions? Let's Graph it Out! with Krysta Avery
Chapter Nine: Perfect Pairs: Finding Animals on the Coordinate Plane with Kristen Kasha
Chapter Ten: "It's in the Bag": Using Measurement to Decorate Shopping Bags with Helen Pastore
