Student-Directed Learning: Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices (Agran, King-Sears, Wehmeyer, & Copeland)

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Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices

Student-Directed Learning
By

Martin Agran, Ph.D., Margaret King-Sears, Ph.D., Michael L. Wehmeyer, Ph.D., and Susan R. Copeland, Ph.D.

"Student-Directed Learning is an important new cutting edge resource to help students with disabilities have a greater opportunity to go to college and also expand their career options. This is must reading for all students with disabilities, families, special education teachers, transition specialist, and guidance counselors." —Paul Wehman

"Student-Directed Learning is a sorely needed text in the field — it is a hands-on guide for teachers who want to increase students active role in the educational process." —Carolyn Hughes

"Student-Directed Learning is a practical book with many teacher-usable ideas based on sound data-based research. The book is grounded in the authors' extensive experience in working with educators to put students in charge of their learning." —Diane Browder, PhD, Snyder Distinguished Professor of Special Education, University of North Carolina—Charlotte

"This book offers substantial practical guidance....The book is a must for teachers seeking a long-lasting instructional impact on their students." —Dr. Dennis Mithaug, Ph.D., Columbia University

The newest volume in the Teachers’ Guides to Inclusive Practices series shows you the benefits of student-directed learning and provides you with specific teaching strategies for helping students learn self-monitoring, self-evaluation, picture cues, self-instruction, problem solving, and other student-directed learning strategies.

You’ll get tips, activities, and step-by-step instructions for applying each strategy in the classroom; case studies that demonstrate the strategies in action; callouts explaining current research; and photocopiable data collection forms. Use this practical guidebook to ensure greater student access to the general curriculum and increase students’ self-confidence and independence in inclusive settings.

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ISBN 1-55766-621-0
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160 pages / 7 x 10
2003 / $25.00
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Table of Contents

About the Authors
Acknowledgments

Student-Directed Learning Strategies and Inclusive Practices
Antecedent Cue Regulation and Picture Cues
Self-Instruction
Self-Monitoring
Self-Evaluation and Self-Reinforcement
Success in the Inclusive Classroom and Access to the General Curriculum

References

Appendix A: Blank Forms

Appendix B: Resources on Student-Directed Learning Strategies

Index