10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom - Paperback

by Marcia W. Rohrer (Author), Nannette M. Samson (Author)

Your blueprint for building structure, consistency, and accountability year-round!

Often teachers of all experience levels struggle to effectively manage special education classrooms. In this must-have guide, Rohrer and Sampson provide a solid, workable action plan to ensure measurable success for even your most challenging student.

Discover a variety of research-based instructional strategies to:

• Support all students, including those with autism and severe learning disabilities
• Organize your classroom, materials, and staff and student schedules for optimal teaching and learning
• Execute well-planned standards-based lessons, annual IEP's, PLAALP's, behavioral interventions, and visual supports
• Develop communication and social skills within a language-rich environment
• Foster parent communication and staff collaboration

Packed with real-world examples, free tools to use and share, a list of resources and a helpful glossary, this dynamic resource will inspire you, develop your teacher toolbox, and ensure your students are on the path to achievement!

"10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom offers practical and easy-to-use ideas for organizing your physical classroom space, materials, student and staff schedules. Readers will also receive well thought out strategies that will definitely aid in the ultimate end result--student success!"
--Avis Canty, Special Education Teacher
Tanglewood Middle School, Greenville, SC

"The path to success for students with autism and intellectual disabilities starts here, when their teachers implement the essential critical components outlined in this book."
--Renee Bernhardt, Learning Support for Special Education and RTI
Cherokee County School District, Canton, GA

Author Biography

Marcia Rohrer is an educational consultant for Behavior Plus and a retired special education teacher with more than 24 years of experience working in resource classes, self-contained classes, and inclusion settings. She was a founding member of an innovative district-wide team of professionals providing services to parents and teachers of students on the autism spectrum. Marcia is a co-author of The 10 Critical components for Student Success in the Self-Contained Classroom, from which this book developed. She has presented numerous workshops and in-services to parents and educators throughout Texas.

Nanette Sampson has over 40 years of experience working in the field of special education in a variety of self-contained, resource, and inclusive settings and as an autism support specialist. Since retiring from public education, she has worked as an independent educational consultant under her company, NMS Services, and through Behavior Plus, Inc.