Teaching Low Achieving and Disadvantaged Students

This new edition updates and expands the previous volume and continues to reflect the concepts and the reasons behind learning and behavior problems of low achieving and disadvantaged students. Through the chapters, the author describes instructional levels and independent levels, emphasizing that success is produced by finding the place on the curriculum for each student at these levels. Details and reactions in light of events and experiences of the intervening years is examined, outlining assessment procedures to separate real disabilities from school-created ones, and then describing the educational treatment of each. Other topics include the grading system, student-centered curriculum, an alternate perspective on testing, and a changed role for the teacher. Instructional delivery systems centered on curriculum-based assessment and cooperative, noncompetitive learning methods are also proposed. Designed for classroom teachers as well as administrators, the text is the result from the author’s role in working with children who are casualties of the educational system as well as his progress in helping to develop a successful alternative public high school.