Teaching Pupils with Severe and Complex Difficulties: Back to First Principles

✍ Scribed by Christopher Dyer

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 189
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In response to the growing demand for fully inclusive education, this volume explores the principles that should guide teachers in meeting the educational needs of pupils with severe learning difficulties and relates these to effective classroom approaches. It examines the special needs of these pupils from the inside out, so that teachers understand the "why" as well as the "how" of education. It also examines issues of behaviour and punishment, offering positive and appropriate methods of dealing with classroom disruption. The author returns to first principles to show that the basics of teaching and education remain constant, no matter what the difficulties of the individual pupil might be, and that these basic principles are vital to planning IEP's (individual education programmes).

✦ Table of Contents

Teaching Pupils with Severe and Complex Difficulties......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 10
2 Principal Principles......Page 19
3 Detective Stories......Page 38
4 Language......Page 59
5 Thinking......Page 95
6 Behaviour......Page 125
7 Endpiece......Page 168
Appendix......Page 173
Bibliography......Page 176
Subject Index......Page 182
Author Index......Page 187
Index to Principles......Page 189