Full Description
Your step-by-step guide to successful transition planning
Transition planning is a challenging process. Finally, here's a practical guide that makes transition planning easier so you can prepare your students with learning differences to successfully navigate adulthood. Backed by the latest research in learning and development, Teaching for the Lifespan provides the pedagogical best practices needed to promote your students' strengths and abilities for life-long success. You'll benefit from:
A deep understanding of the educational, vocational, social, and emotional dimensions of adulthood for students with learning differences
Explicit techniques to help students with learning differences develop an awareness of proactive behaviors
Strategies to help all learners achieve the demands of the Common Core and high-stakes assessments through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Practical tips on effective IEPs, personal stories from adults with learning differences, and suggestions from real teachers
Few things feel better than seeing your students succeed years after they have finished school. With this practitioner-friendly guide, you'll be equipped to help all students with learning challenges succeed as adults. Let's get started!
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Context
1. The Construct of Learning Differences
A Fundamental Question
A Paradigm Shift to a Strengths-Based Model
Historical Perspectives
Definitions of Learning Disabilities: How Much do They Matter?
Differences, Not Disabilities
Moving Forward
2. Adult Developmental Theory and Learning Differences
Theories of Adult Development
Implications of Theories of Adult Development for Individuals with Learning Differences
3. Keys to Success
Abraham Maslow
Steven Covey
Dale Carnegie
Deepak Chopra
Summary and Synthesis of Models of Success
What is Success in Adulthood?
4. Success of Adults with Learning Differences
New Perspectives
Accentuate the Positive
Focusing on Success
Stories of Success
Parto Two: Good Teaching
5. Building a Better Classroom
Facing New Challenges
A Multifaceted Approach to School Success (MASSive)
Two Examples of the MASSive Approach
The Most Critical Variable: Praise, Praise, Praise
6. The Common Core: Teaching for a Lifetime or Teaching for One Way of Life?
Good Intentions, Change, and Confusion
The Good
The Meh
The Ugly
7. Self-Understanding
Building a Sense of Self
Implications for Adulthood
Skills for Building Relationships
Social Skills and Teachable Moments
The IEP as Relationship Builder
A Systematic Approach to Building Self-Awareness, Self-Efficacy, and Agency
8. Breaking the Failure Cycle
The Winning Picture
Skills and Game Success
Acquiring Social Skills
Meditation not Medication
Stress, Anxiety, and Other Realities of Adulthood
Don't Forget the Arts
Life Skills
Outside the Box Inclusion
It's not the Program. - It's You
9. Teaching the Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
Seven Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
It Comes Down to This
Self-Advocacy
Goal Planning and Goodness of Fit
Learned Creativity
