Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (February 25, 2010) © 2011
  • Cecil D. Mercer
  • Paige C. Pullen

Title overview

  • Activities: All content area chapters include numerous field-tested activities you can take direclty into the classroom.
  • Instructional Games: Across all content areas, chapters provide games that help students who struggle with content area material to become engaged and to learn more easily.
  • Self-Correcting Materials: Across all content areas, this section gives teachers ideas for study materials that students who struggle can use on their own to develop skills in different areas.
  • Computer Software Programs: These sections in every content area chapter direct attention to the software programs most likely to help students who struggle develop skills in the different areas.
  • Assessment: The text focuses clearly on assessment as it pertains to each individual content area.
  • thorough coverage of Response to Intervention as it pertains to IDEA 2004.
  • new activities
  • new games
  • updated information on responsive learning environments, planning, assessment, and classroom management

Table of contents

Part 1: Foundations of Teaching

1. Creatiing Responsive Learning Environments

2. Planning and Organizing Instruction

3. Assessing Students for Instruction

4. Teaching Students and Managing Instruction

5. Promoting Social, Emotional, and Behavior Development

 

Part II: Teaching Academic Skills

6. Assessing and Teaching Language

7. Assessing Reading

8. Teaching Reading

9. Assessing and Teaching Spelling

10. Assessing and Teaching Handwriting and Written Expression

11. Assessing Math

12. Teaching Math

13. Teaching Learning Strategies, Content, and Study Skills

14. Promoting Transitions

Author bios

Cecil D. Mercer is a retired Distinguished Professor of Education. One of his major works is Students with Learning Disabilities, and he is coauthor of the Strategic Math Series, the Great Leaps K-2 Reading Program, and the Great Leaps Math Program. Cecil has served on the International Dyslexia Association Board of Directors and on the Learning Disabilities Association of America Professional Advisory Board. He was awarded the College of Education Teacher of the Year award three times at the University of Florida and also has received the University of Florida Graduate School Advisor/Mentoring Award as well as the College of Education Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Ann R. Mercer is a former educational diagnostician and a former special education teacher of students with emotional disabilities and students with learning problems at both the elementary and secondary levels.

 

Paige C. Pullen is an associate professor in special education at the University of Virginia. She is coauthor of Exceptional Learners, 11th edition, with Daniel P. Hallahan and James M. Kauffman, and she is coauthor of Students with Learning Disabilities, 7th edition, with Cecil D. Mercer.

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