Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings

by Tom E.C. Smith, Edward A. Polloway, James R. Patton

This bestselling text provides pre-service teachers in both general and special education programs the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to effectively include students with special needs in every classroom and to provide appropriate instruction for every student. From an authoritative team of experienced and widely-published special educators, Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings, Fifth Edition, focuses on real students in real classrooms and the instructional practices that evidence suggests will prove most effective for them. Separate chapters explore the history and characteristics of disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, learning disabilities, and less frequently seen challenges like severe physical disabilities, and go on to provide clear, comprehensive guidance for teachers who work with students of varying abilities and learn

Genres: Teaching, Education

614 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Tom Smith is Dean of Education at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas).

Reviews

[Iman Altoot]

I read this book, and it was an excellent book to choose since it provides the reader with a lot of knowledge about how to deal with special needs kids. But in somehow, I think the authors are relatively unwieldy in some facts and opinion, in this situation it had this book to be more struggle in some points. In the text, I've noticed some sentences are not clear, but in the other hands, there were such a good and beneficial skills, as long with a right strategy, so teachers can use them in the classroom to fit all students in the suitable class. In any way, this book was written and put together for the student of special education. Also, it is a useful guide for teachers as well for parents, and it is good to share between people.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a textbook this was good. Not excellent, not terrible, but good. Grammatically, it featured a lot of long sentences which present the information but make it hard to retain. I've become accustomed to writers like Pinker and Dawkins, who write with beautiful prose and better grammar while presenting academic information. This book felt dry. If there had been splashes of prose added to the delivery I would bump the rating up. As it is, it was good for an assigned reading textbook.

[Missy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read it but not by choice. It was okay. Not great.

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the charts and vignettes in this book, but the authors are always quite cumbersome with small points and that makes this text drag more than it should. I understand that they are just trying to be thorough in presenting information, but I have read textbooks that don't drag as this one does. I also hear a bit of bias in certain spots throughout this book, and really favor models of inclusion to a fault at points. I also realize that this book is titled as such, but as a paradigm for our modern educational system that doesn't want to leave anyone behind, it seems detrimental to me to color one mode of education brightly while ignoring the potential benefits of self-contained or pullout options for this population of children. I simply see quite a bit of slanted figures and facts making a case for the reader rather than simply laying out all the facts and letting the reader interpret them as they see fit. In any case this has been an interesting, if not enlightening, book about public education.

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a textbook for one of my special education teaching courses. Features a couple sample general IEPs. It includes a back of the book subject index.

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

as far as text books are concerned...

[Adrienne B · Rating 2 out of 5]

Needs another revision with emphasis on more modern/relevant content. For instance, Life Skills chart on page 350 suggests reading the TV Guide with your students...