From the Back Cover
HOW TO REACH AND TEACH ALL CHILDREN IN THE INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM
Second Edition Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge
This thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling book gives all classroom teachers, special educators, and administrators an ar-senal of adaptable and ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities. How to Reach and Teach All Children in the Inclusive Classroom is a comprehensive resource that helps teachers reach students with varied learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors. The authors offer a team approach that includes parents, colleagues, and learning specialists, enabling teachers to guide diverse groups of students in grades 3-8 toward academic, social, and emotional success.
This book is an invaluable resource for educators who want to successfully reach and teach all of the children in a mainstream general education classroom. Topics include how to
- Effectively differentiate instruction
- Make accommodations and modifications for students based on their learning styles, abilities, and behaviors
- Engage reluctant readers and writers
- Motivate all students to be successful mathematicians
- Increase communication and collaboration between home and school
- Build students' organization, time management, and study skills
- Implement positive behavioral supports and interventions
- Create classroom and schoolwide programs designed to enhance students' resiliency and self-esteem
"Rief and Heimburge's new work provides the novice/beginning and experienced professional educator with a plethora of valuable ideas and techniques for promoting prosocial behaviors in school and raising the academic achievement of all learners."
--Dr. Bob Bayuk, school psychologist and past president of Wyoming School Psychology Association
"Rief and Heimburge have included ideas for students with a wide array of learning challenges such as bipolar disorders, nonverbal LD, Asperger's Syndrome, and ODD. Teachers will find this book invaluable in the classroom!"
--Dr. William N. Bender, author, Differentiating Math Instruction: Strategies That Work for K-8 Classrooms
"Motivating and educating today's students requires an artful blend of science and time-proven strategies. Sandra Rief and Julie Heimburge's new volume stands as a testament to the very best of this model. This wise and practical resource for educators committed to developing the best in every student is superb."
--Dr. Sam Goldstein, coauthor, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior, 2nd Edition
"This best-practice toolkit for reaching and teaching all students--including those at risk--is practical, easy to use, and highly effective."
--Greg Greicius, senior vice president for education, Turnaround for Children, New York City
THE AUTHORS
Sandra F. Rief, M.A. (San Diego, CA), an internationally known author, speaker, and teacher trainer, has worked as a public school teacher for more than twenty years. Julie A. Heimburge (San Diego, CA) has taught at the elementary level in the San Diego Unified School District for the past twenty-five years.
