Differentiating Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities: New Best Practices for General and Special Educators

by William N. Bender

Overview

Use the latest research to bring differentiated instruction to today’s inclusive classrooms!

In this third edition of his best-selling resource, William Bender presents a new view of differentiated instruction—as seen through a Common Core lens—drawing on the latest brain research, technology, and educational initiatives. Featuring extensive new material, the third edition presents:

• NEW coverage of Khan Academy, flipped classes, and other cutting-edge techniques to enhance differentiated instruction in general and special education settings
• NEW strategies for differentiating instruction within an RTI framework and in the context of the Common Core
• NEW how-tos for using technology to instruct and assess students with learning disabilities
• NEW teaching tips and concrete examples of brain-friendly instruction

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412998598
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/04/2012
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

William N. Bender, Ph D, has had a long and distinguished career in education, teaching in public school for several years and in higher education for some 26 years at Bluefield State College in West Virginia, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and the University of Georgia. He has written 36 books in special and general education. With his retirement, he has stepped back from his rigorous workshop schedule, which as recently as 2016 included some 40 workshop days per year. While the COVID-19 pandemic impacted his work, he has written four historical fiction novels and several educational books in recent years. He has delivered several professional development projects, including most recently a keynote for a virtual conference on project-based learning in Brazil in conjunction with his Corwin book Project-Based Learning (2012).

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Consulting Description: Differentiated Instruction
Consulting Description: Math
Consulting Description: Project-Based Learning
Consulting Description: RTI
Consulting Description: Technology

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Author
1. Differentiated Instruction: Then and Now
2. Universal Design and Differentiated Instructional Models
3. Technology and the New Differentiated Instruction
4. Response to Intervention and Differentiated Assessment Strategies
5. Instructional Support Strategies for Differentiated Instruction
6. Cognitive Strategy Instruction for Differentiated Classes
Appendix
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"The ideas on differentiation presented in this book are wonderful! They are new, innovative, current, interesting, and very practical. I could easily implement some of these ideas in my classroom tomorrow! "

Rachel Aherns

"I found the chapters easy to read as well as easy to return to and locate information you wanted to return to. Each chapter had examples for the reader that were relevant to the topic and things that a teacher could see using in the classroom. It was an excellent review for me, so I think veteran teachers will benefit from the book. "

Dana Leonard

"If you are searching for a book on differentiating instruction in your classroom for both general education students and students with learning disabilities, look no further. Between these pages you will find ample strategies of how to effectively and efficiently individualize instruction to a classroom of diverse learners, without having to spend countless hours before and after a lesson preparing and assessing. "

Jessica Purcell