Curricula for Students with Severe Disabilities: Narratives of Standards-Referenced Good Practice / Edition 1

by Phyllis Jones

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138811928
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/08/2017
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phyllis Jones is a Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of South Florida, USA.

Table of 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