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Including Students with Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers, MyLabSchool Edition
Including Students with Special Needs takes a non-categorical approach to the topic of inclusionary practices, drawing on the authors' own INCLUDE model to help all students achieve success regardless of their specific category of exceptionality. This book offers strategies for teaching students with disabilities in inclusive settings. By drawing on author Marilyn Friend's experience in elementary education and author William Bursuck's in secondary education this book examines the needs of students with low-incidence and high-incidence disabilities at both the elementary and secondary levels. For preservice and in-service special educators in elementary and secondary schools.
544 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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September 20, 2022
Book: Including Students With Special Needs
Author: Marilyn Friend and William Bursuck
Rating: 3 Out of 5 Stars
This is another book that I read for professional development. While there is a lot of good information in this book, I felt that it has not aged well. This book was written in the 1990s and so a lot has changed. I just felt like a lot of the suggestions the book offered were not useful in this day and age.
I found the technology sections of this book to be outdated. The book also assumes that school districts can provide students the latest in technology. Where I live and teach, this is not the case. Schools just do not have the resources and man power to carry out what the book wants.
I did like how each chapter gives us a break down of different needs and ideas on how to include different types of students. We are given instructional options, along with ideas on classroom set up and management. Even those of us who are in the classroom, there was information there for us. It gave us ideas as to how to handle and address these students’ needs. That is what I look for whenever I read a book like this. I want to know how I can help these students. I have a number of students with special needs in my classroom. (I have a degree in both general education and special education.) There are times that I don’t know how to help these students. By having a guide, such as this, it gives me a way to help these students achieve and has success. Sometimes you just need a second opinion to help guide you through things.
I liked how many of the tips were grounded and how it went through case studies. This real-world experience adds so much to the book. However, though, I felt that the book assumed that teachers and schools had access to everything to meet every students’ need. Where I teach, this is not the case. We do our best, but we don’t have access to a lot of resources that bigger districts do. We have to make do with what we have. Sadly, this does mean that there are certain students whose needs cannot be meet in certain schools in the district. This means that they may have to do to other buildings in the district. For example, my school can handle students with certain disabilities, such as mild learning disabilities, speech, and other similar disabilities. We would struggle to help students with more severe disabilities. It’s not a matter of we cannot do it, but a matter of we don’t have the resources to help those children succeed.
Overall, this book is about helping students be successful in not only the school setting, but in the real world as well. At the end of the day that is what educators want to do. We want to see our students succeed and be the best that they can be.
Author: Marilyn Friend and William Bursuck
Rating: 3 Out of 5 Stars
This is another book that I read for professional development. While there is a lot of good information in this book, I felt that it has not aged well. This book was written in the 1990s and so a lot has changed. I just felt like a lot of the suggestions the book offered were not useful in this day and age.
I found the technology sections of this book to be outdated. The book also assumes that school districts can provide students the latest in technology. Where I live and teach, this is not the case. Schools just do not have the resources and man power to carry out what the book wants.
I did like how each chapter gives us a break down of different needs and ideas on how to include different types of students. We are given instructional options, along with ideas on classroom set up and management. Even those of us who are in the classroom, there was information there for us. It gave us ideas as to how to handle and address these students’ needs. That is what I look for whenever I read a book like this. I want to know how I can help these students. I have a number of students with special needs in my classroom. (I have a degree in both general education and special education.) There are times that I don’t know how to help these students. By having a guide, such as this, it gives me a way to help these students achieve and has success. Sometimes you just need a second opinion to help guide you through things.
I liked how many of the tips were grounded and how it went through case studies. This real-world experience adds so much to the book. However, though, I felt that the book assumed that teachers and schools had access to everything to meet every students’ need. Where I teach, this is not the case. We do our best, but we don’t have access to a lot of resources that bigger districts do. We have to make do with what we have. Sadly, this does mean that there are certain students whose needs cannot be meet in certain schools in the district. This means that they may have to do to other buildings in the district. For example, my school can handle students with certain disabilities, such as mild learning disabilities, speech, and other similar disabilities. We would struggle to help students with more severe disabilities. It’s not a matter of we cannot do it, but a matter of we don’t have the resources to help those children succeed.
Overall, this book is about helping students be successful in not only the school setting, but in the real world as well. At the end of the day that is what educators want to do. We want to see our students succeed and be the best that they can be.
April 29, 2021
Good for those needing a brush up or intro to this topic. Lots of links given.
March 28, 2022
A great resource for Gen Ed teachers to have at their fingertips
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July 9, 2022This is a great resource book to better assist students with disabilities and non-disabilities.
August 30, 2011
Read chapter 1 of the copy I got from the library and decided I have to buy this one. Too much here that needs to be highlighted and lots to reference for future use. Still skimming through the rest of it so that I know what all is here.
I'm moving this to a new bookshelf because I'm not sure I'll ever be 'done' reading it, not will I likely read it cover to cover at one time.
I'm moving this to a new bookshelf because I'm not sure I'll ever be 'done' reading it, not will I likely read it cover to cover at one time.
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May 27, 2014
May 28, 2009
I'm on chapter 4, pg. 114.
July 5, 2009
This was one of my more difficult classes, but I do feel that I learned a lot. A lot of useful info in the text.
June 19, 2011
A fantastic textbook. Information relevant to the classroom, with countless references which promise to be invaluable when I start my career as a teacher.
April 25, 2014
Textbook for EEX 4070 - Inclusive Education for General Educators. The book had lots of useful information and in an easy-to-read format.
January 1, 2025
Read 7th edition for special education graduate course.
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