Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Addresses common defense mechanisms and rationalizations students use to avoid studying, and offers ready-to-use and easy-to-understand skills for middle and high school classrooms.

Learn how emotional disturbance impacts learning and gain strategies for responding to anxiety issues, opposition and noncompliance, tantrums, disruptiveness, inattention, task avoidance, and more.

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This book provides guidelines for using constructivist teaching methods with English language learners and includes classroom examples, grade-level connections, and strategies that promote educational equity.

This unique resource lays out everyday challenges and administrative necessities to help you plan strategically for the academic year.

Key Concepts in Teaching Primary Mathematics

This book for inservice and preservice teachers demonstrates how to use drama to promote students' speaking and listening skills, including strategies to motivate reluctant learners.

Introduces key theoretical and epistemological concepts, including real-world examples employed to bring these otherwise difficult concepts to life.

Covers IDEA and its accompanying regulations and analyzes cases involving procedural due process, assistive technology, disciplinary sanctions, dispute resolution, antidiscrimination laws, and special services entitlement.

Designed to help you survive your first years as headteacher, this book provides the resources for becoming a strong and effective leader. It helps you with the technical skills needed to run a school; create and clarify personal professional growth plan; work effectively with the community; and incorporate staff in school goals and initiatives.

In this second edition of his original insightful collection of letters to the first president of the 21st century, Seymour B. Sarason details how to rethink school reform.

A year's worth of thought-provoking quotations will inspire you to reflect on the way you teach and provide you with tools to inspire your students, too!

This yearly planner provides a weekly calendar with room for goals and to-do lists, 365 ideas for your professional and personal life, and more!

This research-based handbook guides school leaders in successfully implementing a literacy coaching program to drive schoolwide literacy achievement.

Easy-to-understand theories and nontechnical language help educators and parents understand how the teenage brain thinks, feels, learns, and changes on its journey to adulthood.

The author shows how teachers honoring real culture can transform the context and content within their classrooms while creating learning settings that challenge students academically.

Using this classroom-tested five-step process, your students will learn to dismantle even the most challenging comprehension questions and respond in clear, sophisticated paragraphs.

Lesson plans linked to national standards help students develop lifelong writing skills and confidence as writers while preparing them for standardized writing tests.

Explains how changes in policy and provision have affected the ways in which young people and adults with autism are cared for and educated. This book offers information on: the nature and effects of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs); family issues surrounding caring for and educating those with ASDs; and, possible intervention programmes.

Presents strategies which health & social care students and professionals can use to develop skills in cultural equality and anti-discrimination, and then apply them to their everyday practice in a range of settings.

This resource helps educators structure the classroom environment, understand and improve behavior, and look at transition through the eyes of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

A step-by-step guide, that shows how to get the best out of visits in the early years, whether you are going to the zoo, down to the farm, exploring the arts, visiting a museum or going to a show. Linked to the Foundation Stage curriculum and Early Learning Goals, this book is filled with learning opportunities and useful resources.

A relevant and timely book with a unique approach: the focus here is on how and why ethnic and racial minorities produce and consume media for themselves - not just how they are represented in or by the media.

A truly international perspective that integrates both market and nonmarket analysis concisely.

Based on work done in secondary schools by the NSPCC, this PSHE curriculum resource aims to give young people the information and skills necessary to keep themselves 'safe'. Focusing on personal safety, it addresses issues such as: emotional health and well-being; the ability to access help and support; and family, social and sexual relationships.

The regulations circumscribed around EBD under the IDEA laws surrounding Special Education. Description of typical EBD behaviors and positive reinforcementsThe most effective intervention strategies for best practice in the classroom

Featuring reader-friendly language, step-by-step guidelines, and informative appendices, this guide introduces educators to the purpose, principles, benefits, and application of this tiered service delivery model.

Be an agent of positive, enduring change with these specific strategies gleaned from the MicroSociety (R) program and apply them to your school improvement efforts.

This book offers practical methods, templates, and rubrics for collecting and analyzing data, and includes innovative ideas for building trust, including students in the process, and working together.

This indispensable resource enables all educators to help students with disabilities learn more effectively and show what they know on the day of the test.