Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Schools: Best Professional Practices for Serving the Needs of All Students

✍ Scribed by Virginia W. Berninger

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive, landmark guide presents an evidence-based approach to assessment and instruction in K-12 education that takes into account individual differences in students. The guide identifies the developmental skills to be assessed and taught in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, and it provides principles for tailoring assessment and intervention to individual students, who exhibit sizable developmental, individual, cultural, and language differences.

Importantly, it also explains how to facilitate communication and collaboration among interdisciplinary teams in education—professionals who are legally required to work together yet have such different training and disciplinary expertise that they seem to “speak different languages."

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
I Basic Principles of Interdisciplinary Teamwork
1
Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Frameworks
2
Using the Interdisciplinary Frameworks in Practice
II Developmental Stepping Stones in Assessment and Instruction
3
Evidence-Based Use of Tests and Assessments in 21st-Century Education
4
Linking Instruction and Assessment in Early Childhood
5
Linking Instruction and Assessment in Middle Childhood
6
Linking Instruction and Assessment in Adolescence
III Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Understanding the Biological Bases of Development and Learning
7
A Genetics Primer and Brain Primer for Interdisciplinary Frameworks
8
Diagnosing Pervasive and Specific Developmental Disabilities and Talent
9
Diagnosing Specific Learning Disabilities and Twice Exceptionality
10
Neurogenetic Disorders
11
Brain-Related Disorders and Other Health Conditions
IV Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Understanding Environmental Bases of Development and Learning
12
Racial, Cultural, Family, Linguistic, and Socioeconomic Diversity and the Story of Rose
V Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Understanding Legal, Ethical, and Institutional Issues
13 Perspectives of a Neuropsychologist Working in an Interdisciplinary Setting With Students With Learning Disabilities and Their Parents and Teachers
14 Opportunities for Educators to Advocate for Students
15 Child Custody Litigation and School Personnel Fostering Positive School–Family Relationships
Appendix A Becoming a Critical Consumer of Interdisciplinary Research for Translating Research Into Practice
Appendix B
Honor Role Model List Representing Exemplary Practices by Members of Different Professions on Interdisciplinary Teams in Schools
Index
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