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Centre for Child Studies: Online Resource Library for Teachers
and School Professionals
Child
and Youth Suicide Intervention and Prevention
The Education Network of Ontario and The Hospital for Sick Children,
with funding support from The Office of Learning Technologies
have joined together to develop this important project. The goal
of this project is to help teachers and other school based professionals
to understand, to identify and reduce risk for suicide with our
young people.
The
Mainstreaming Handbook: How to be an advocate for your special
needs students
By Deborah Coughlin
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 2000
Format: 150 pp.
ISBN: 0 325 00226 6
This is a handbook for classroom teachers with students
who don’t necessarily qualify for special services, but
need special help nonetheless. You face the challenge of meeting
their needs plus the needs of your other students. The Mainstreaming
Handbook proves it is possible. Deborah Coughlin has never been
trained in special education: she is a classroom teacher retracing
the processes and questions that guided her efforts to advocate
and accommodate the special-needs students in her classroom.
What
About Me?: Strategies for Teaching Misunderstood Learners
Christopher Lee
Rosemary Jackson
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 2001
Format: 166 pp.
ISBN: 0 325 00348 3
In What About Me? Lee combines his special insight
with Jackson’s expertise as a special education trainer
to offer specific help to teachers and parents of other misunderstood
learners. It is a practical yet personal book on how to help special
learners grow into self-sufficient, responsible adults who can
recognize their strengths and manage their weaknesses.
Rethinking
High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar, Steven Zemelman, Deborah Meier
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 2001
Format: , 300 pp.
ISBN: 0 325 00324 6
Rethinking High School is organized around eleven
fundamental choices all secondary schools must make. The book
serves as a checklist, an agenda, and a study guide for high school
reform. Instead of dictating right answers, the authors pose key
questions and recount a range of creative alternatives developed
by schools around the country. By offering this rich array of
stories and models, the book speaks directly to readers who wish
to improve existing high schools, break
Rethinking
High School: Best Practice in Action
Steven Zemelman,Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar,
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1999
Format:
ISBN: 0 325 00195 2
In this videotape, Zemelman, Daniels, and Bizar
take us directly into the classrooms of Best Practice High School,
where real kids and teachers co-create a rich curriculum and supportive
community.
What
to Do With the Kid Who? : Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline,
and Responsibility in the Classroom
Kay Burke
Publisher: Skylight
Copyright: 2000
Format: 294 pp.
ISBN: 1 57517 344 1
Burke offers both new and veteran teachers updated
strategies to meet the critical challenges of today’s diverse
classrooms. This book features the latest research on classroom
management, violence prevention, emotional intelligence, inclusion,
and cooperative learning. It provides more than 200 specific teaching
strategies to help students regulate their own behaviour, resolve
their own conflicts, and celebrate their own learning.
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