If you're a teacher new to special education, this book is for you! This newest Common-Sense Classroom Management guide addresses the most critical challenges that arise when teaching adolescent learners with special needs. In this flexible and easy-to-implement resource, educators will find 80 concise and teacher-tested strategies. Each strategy works in five steps or fewer, helping special educators feel competent and confident about working with co-teachers, teacher aides, support staff, administrators, and families. The authors, all special education experts, provide practical assistance with: • Specially designed instruction and student organization to make teaching more effective • Legal responsibilities aligned with IDEIA and NCLB requirements • Positive behavioral supports, including incentive programs and meaningful consequences Ideal for teachers new to special education, teacher trainers, and teacher mentors, this resource provides a clear-sighted focus to help you shape the structure of each teaching day and ensure success for all your learners with special needs!

These 80 easy to adapt strategies work in five steps or fewer to help special educators feel confident about working with co-teachers, teacher aides, support staff, administrators, and families.

Presents a classroom management guide for middle and high school teachers, describing over sixty-five strategies for room organization, lesson planning, creating a positive classroom atmosphere, working with non-English speaking students, taking attendance, dealing with challenges, and addressing other issues.

This updated bestseller offers more than 70 easy-to-implement classroom strategies with new tips for handling standardized testing, Internet safety, classroom hygiene, parent-teacher relationships, and more!

An indispensable manual for new teachers, teacher trainers and mentor teachers, this compact yet comprehensive book is chock full of easy-to-implement techniques for creating a successful teaching and learning environment. An indispensable manual for new teachers, special highlights include straightforward five-step-or-less strategies, "IDEA" sections that tailor tactics to special education students, and tips for working with challenging students.

This practical guide gives teachers simple strategies for organizing their classrooms and pacing their day to ensure that learners with special needs experience success.

Full of easy-to-implement techniques for creating a successful teaching and learning environment.

Strategies to achieve winning results in the inclusive secondary classroom! Backed by the author’s three decades of experience, this reader-friendly guidebook provides teachers with a practical approach for creating a successful inclusive secondary classroom. Toby J. Karten helps teachers use a variety of strategies, including differentiated instruction, universal design for learning, brain-based learning, RTI, and evidence-based practice. With helpful forms, activities, graphic organizers, and quotations throughout, this resource: Outlines the theoretical background for creating an inclusive classroom environment Describes the psychosocial, cognitive, physical, and moral development of adolescents and how they affect teaching practice Provides research-based practices to maximize and honor learners’ potentials and strengths

"The RCM plan works because it is straightforward and easy for staff, students, and parents to understand and, most important, to buy into. Staff members appreciate the research and the paradigm of modeling responsibility. Students identify with the emphasis on responsibility and the use of logical consequences. The RCM plan has been a major part of positively changing the overall culture in our school." —Ronald S. Dixon, Principal John Taylor Williams Middle School, Charlotte, NC A schoolwide plan for decreasing discipline problems and empowering adolescents to act responsibly! Proven to reduce office referrals, suspensions, and dropout rates, the Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) is a nationally field-tested, team-based approach to schoolwide behavior management and discipline. Written for teachers and administrators in Grades 6–12, this detailed resource: Addresses the nuts and bolts of classroom management Explains the essential skills teachers need to reinforce responsible behavior and model appropriate social conduct Provides tested consequences that promote internal behavior control in secondary school students Includes administrator resources and tools for introducing, implementing, and monitoring Responsible Classroom Management in a school or district Emphasizing the importance of teamwork between administrators and teachers in maintaining schoolwide behavior standards and expectations, this book introduces the RCMPlanTM system and provides the tools you need for successful implementation.