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If you teach teachers, this is the perfect book around which you can design effective instruction.
Discuss with your students dozens of actual situations that occurred in a large, suburban high school special education classroom with a diverse student population. Have your students demonstrate their knowledge of pedagogy and their ability to apply that knowledge by creating output based from the real situations in this book.
Regardless of what course you teach--special ed law, behavior management, reading strategies, collaborating with families, or any other current topic--you'll find many chapters that will trigger real discussion in your classroom. Here's a summary of the issues covered and each issue's related chapters:
| Issue covered |
Found in chapters |
| Establishing student rapport |
1,9,12,17,18,20,21,25,40 |
| True nature of high school students |
1,7,8,9,12,15,17,22,27,29,41 |
| The experience of a mid-life career change |
2,12,19,24 |
| Overcoming self-doubt |
2,5,6,14,15,23,28 |
| How the self-confidence of age helps in the classroom & with administration |
2,5,12,13,15,16,17,28,29 |
| The necessary stigma of special education |
3,17,22 |
| Understanding special education |
3,8,13,15,17,18,26,39 |
| Helping exceptional students overcome obstacles |
3,8,13,17,18,19,36 |
| How to deal with the difficulties of teaching |
3,8,10,11,15 |
| Interacting successfully with administration & faculty |
3,12,24,27,39 |
| What to expect when you’re a teacher |
4,7,11,17,18,26,32 |
| How to invoke beneficial academic rigor in the classroom |
8,13,17,23,32,36,37,40 |
| Teaching essential lessons outside the curriculum |
10,11,23,27,40,41 |
| Interacting successfully with families |
11,12 |
| Suggestions to improve traditional curriculum |
13,14,20,32,36,37 |
| Successfully implementing graduate education to real-world classroom experiences |
15,18,20,25,26,32 |
| Maintaining classroom control |
15,16,18,19,24,25,39 |
| Successfully managing challenging student behavior |
10,15,20,21,24,25,27,30,39,40 |
| Racism in the classroom |
23,24 |
| How to deal with the stress of student teaching |
31,32,33,34 |
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There are very few books on the market that cover what it's like to be a high school special education student, a high school special education teacher, and a high school teacher in general. If you want to learn about the art of teaching, what happens in a classroom between a teacher and a high school student, and how parents can help their teens succeed in high school, this book is for you. Here's how to buy Never Too Old To Teach.
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