Tasks Galore for the Real World
Tasks Galore for the Real World

Author: Laurie Eckenrode

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781934226018

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Tasks Galore for the Real World features over 240 full-color photos of highly organized, multi-modal tasks that emphasize the functional skills needed for daily living. Each task includes visual strategies that enhance independence in the home, school, community, and workplace. Life skill areas covered include domestic skills, independent functioning, vocational skills, and job sites. The tasks attempt to clarify visually and to make concrete abstract concepts, such as telling time, using money, measuring, etc. An introduction describes how strucutured environments can be set up to enhance the learning.

Tasks Galore Let's Play
Tasks Galore Let's Play

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 9781934226087

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Tasks Galore is a compilation of over 250 colored photos of visually structured and fun multi-modal tasks that are appropriate for preschool and elementary aged learners with ASD and other developmental disorders. The context of play is used to enhance skills across developmental areas. Topics span abilities- from engaging in early social games with caregivers to role playing with peers, using toys functionally and symbolically, choosing one toy, and organizing play times. The clarity of the task presentations makes them especially comprehensible for students who are visual learners.

Tasks Galore
Tasks Galore

Author: Laurie Eckenrode

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781934226025

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Tasks Galore Making Groups Meaningful is the third book in the Tasks Galore series. The authors describe how applying structured teaching strategies, individualizing skills, establishing a flow between one-to-one teaching and group learning, and organizing curricula around themes, have helped them design successful groups for students wtih autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities. The strategies depicted are especially helpful to students who are visual learners. Photos illustrate how students learn concepts, construct projects, make music, exercise, and simply have fun in group settings. Full color photos of visually structured tasks and routines and simple explanations help teachers, therapists, and parents create their own successful groups.

The Everyday Autism Handbook for Schools
The Everyday Autism Handbook for Schools

Author: Claire Droney

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1787754294

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A practical, easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and strategies that can be implemented within the classroom to help autistic children achieve their full potential. With an introduction to autism and its key differences, insights from autistic individuals and case studies drawn from years of experience, this is the definitive resource for busy teachers supporting autistic children within a mainstream or specialist school environment. This book provides guidance on a variety of topics related to teaching autistic children in primary school, including adapting the curriculum, ensuring effective communication with staff and parents, fostering emotional regulation, as well as staff self-care. Each chapter includes easy-to-follow guides and resources, providing solutions, direction and support for teachers to help students on the autism spectrum to thrive.

Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching
Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching

Author: Mike Long

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-07-31

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1118882210

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This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and the philosophy of education Details best practice for TBLT programs, including discussion of learner needs and means analysis; syllabus design; materials writing; choice of methodological principles and pedagogic procedures; criterion-referenced, task-based performance assessment; and program evaluation Written by an esteemed scholar of second language acquisition with over 30 years of research and classroom experience Considers diffusion of innovation in education and the potential impact of TBLT on foreign and second language learning

Tasks Galore Literature-Based Thematic Units
Tasks Galore Literature-Based Thematic Units

Author: Laurie Eckenrode

Publisher:

Published: 2013-02-04

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781934226100

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I'm hungry, I'm hungry, what shall I do?: "What shall he eat? What shall he drink? Decisions "galore' await Triggy as he discovers tasty cafeteria treats."

Building Independence
Building Independence

Author: Christine E. Reeve

Publisher: Future Horizons

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781937473099

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Individuals with ASD and related disorders are supported by a variety of people throughout their day, whether in educational and work settings, transition programs or at home. Structured work systems are one method that can be used to ensure that they develop and maintain their ability to work on their own, without assistance and prompting from others. Briefly, structured work systems are designed to give visual information about what work needs to be done, how much works needs to be done, when the work is completed and what will happen next. Due to the predictability and sense of accomplishment that are built into the system, many individuals with ASD find the structured work time their favorite time of the day. Full of color photos and case examples spanning age and levels of functioning, the book provides an A-Z guide to work systems, including assessment, how to build them into the curriculum, IEPs, lesson planning and more.

Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs
Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs

Author: Darlene Mannix

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1119788765

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Help students with special needs thrive with over 160 updated educational activities In the newly revised Third Edition of Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, teacher and author Darlene Mannix delivers a unique collection of over 160 updated activity sheets with related exercises, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help students gain basic skills necessary for independence and success. Each activity sheet focuses on a specific skill in a real-world context and includes teacher directions for objectives, introduction, optional extension activities, and assessment methods. This crucial book includes: Activity sheets and corresponding introductions in a wide variety of critical life skills such as interpersonal, communication, academic and school, practical living, and more Coverage of leisure activities and the importance of finding fulfilling hobbies and pastimes Tools to help students build their self awareness and understand their strengths and weaknesses Perfect for special educators, general education teachers, school counselors, and psychologists, Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs will also earn a place in the libraries of other professionals working with special needs children, as well as the parents of those children.

Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom
Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom

Author: Judith Arter

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780761975755

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A practical guide to more effective assessment for improved student learning Learn how to be more consistent in judging student performance, and help your students become more effective at assessing their own learning This book o