SE1.

Effective Alternative Education Programs

Best Practices from Planning through Evaluating

A Book by Christopher Scott Chalker

©1996

This book provides the reader with step-by-step method for planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating the type of alternative program desired, based on local needs and available resources.  Sample reproducible documents and forms are also provided

SE2.

Marching to Different Drummers

A Book by Pat Burke Guild & Stephen Garger

©1985

Provides an opportunity for us as educators to become familiar with a wide variety of approaches to style.  You will find an approach to individual differences that matches our own style of teaching or administration.

SE3.

Semantic Feature Analysis

Classroom Applications

A Book by Susan D. Pittelman and others

©1991

A strategy that helps teachers focus students’ attention on vocabulary and the words we so often take for granted.  By engaging students in discussions that elicit their experiences and associations with the concepts and words being highlighted, teachers help students increase their sensitivity to language.

SE4.

The School Survival Guide for Kids with Learning Differences

Ways to Make Learning Easier and More Fun

A Book by Rhoda Cummings & Ed.D. and Gary Fisher, Ph.D.

©1991

This book includes the following:  How to get organized, Six ways to be a better learner, How to handle testing, Tips for doing better in reading, writing, spelling and math, How to get help from adults, Ways to keep school cool, and How to stick up for yourself.

SE5.

Inclusive Classrooms from A to Z

A Handbook for Educators

by Gretchen Goodman

© 1994

In this book the author helps primary grade teachers move step-by-step toward creating more inclusive classrooms. 

SE6.

Punished by Rewards

The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes

by Alfie Kohn

©1993

While manipulating people with incentives seems to work in the short run, it is a strategy that ultimately fails and even does lasting harm.  This book demonstrates that people actually do inferior work when they are enticed with money, grades, or other incentives.

SE7.

Special Education:  Professional Development Opportunities in Missouri

©May 1999-June 2000

Includes information regarding special education professional development opportunities held in Missouri.  This list has been compiled by the Center for Innovations in Special Education (CISE).

SE8.

Loan Package Catalog

By the Center for Innovations in Special Education

©1998-1999

A complete list of what is available on loan through the Center for Innovation in Special Education (CISE) office in Columbia.

SE9.

Special Education: Project and Outreach Directors Consortium

Includes step-by-step video to correspond to the notebook that accompanies.

© n/a

Through a Project and Outreach Directors Consortium, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Division of Special Education, provides services related to the education of learners with disabilities.

SE10.

Proposed Changes to Missouri’s State Plan for Special Education (3-ring binder) 1999

A binder containing the outlines of 28 sections and 9 appendices of the Proposed Changes to the Missouri Sate Plan foe Special Education.

SE11

How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms: 2^nd Edition

By Carol Ann Tomlinson

© 2001

Shows how to use students’ readiness, levels interests, and learning profiles to address student diversity.

SE12

Differentiated Instructional Stratigies in Practice Training, Implementation, and Supervision

By Gayle H. Gregory

© 2003

This is a powerful way to meet the individual and diverse needs of all learners, including the adult learner engaged in job-embedded professional development, staff training, and faculty meetings. 

SE13

Educational Directions for Students with Traumatic Brain Injury

1999

This manual helps to answer questions that teachers have about the student.  It also looks at practical educational applications.