This book offers a unique coaching model with a practical approach for special education teachers and service providers. Educators face the challenge of accommodating students with complex neurodevelopmental disorders. By empowering special education personnel to participate as coaches, educators can go beyond simple accommodation and actively provide a less restrictive setting, dynamically assess skills, and build an effective coaching network to engage students throughout the entire school day. Throughout the book, readers will find vignettes that illustrate the reality of special education. Each vignette is concluded with evidence-based support that describes the positive results of the strategies implemented. This book introduces coaching methods that will guide teachers and instructional staff to create and maintain a "solutions focused" coaching community.Provided in this text are vignettes that illustrate the reality of special education. Additionally, approaches for addressing the real word needs of students with ASD are provided, along with evidence-based support that describes the positive results of the strategies described.This text also introduces coaching methods that will guide teachers and instructional staff to create and maintain a "solutions-focused" coaching community. This book serves as a clinical guide and delivers a practical discussion of high-quality coaching as an emerging best practice for supporting special educators (teachers and paraprofessionals) as well as school-based service providers (speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists). It is a valuable primary text for special education teachers in training, a resource for professional development personnel, and a tool for researchers and graduate students in education and teaching programs.

Every teacher dreams of the perfect, well-behaved classroom, but the reality can be quite different. On those less-than-perfect days, having a system in place helps you and your students stay on track. This gold mine of teacher-developed and approved strategies goes beyond classroom management theory and gives you ready-to-use tools that not only encourage positive behavior, but also empower students to take responsibility for their behavior. This book is organized into three sections: the first provides general classroom operating principles for maintaining control of the classroom; the second helps teachers with day-to-day classroom management; and the third is chock full of teacher-friendly activities to promote an enhanced classroom environment. Excellent for all students, these strategies will help you: - Improve your teaching and classroom management skills - Enhance your knowledge base - Maintain a positive attitude so that you can be proactive rather than reactive Also included are a "quick glance" chart that groups the activities by appropriate grade level and checklists for classroom procedures and routines, teacher classroom management, and self evaluation. Are you ready to get started? Let these "best of the best" activities lead the way!