Teaching for the Lifespan

Successfully Transitioning Students With Learning Differences to Adulthood
Henry B. Reiff - McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
Nicole S. Ofiesh - Learning and Education Specialist
Teaching for the Lifespan
October 2015 | 200 pages | Corwin
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Your step-by-step guide to successful transition planning

Transition planning is a challenging process. Finally, here’s a practical guide that makes transition planning easier so you can prepare your students with learning differences to successfully navigate adulthood. Backed by the latest research in learning and development, Teaching for the Lifespan provides the pedagogical best practices needed to promote your students’ strengths and abilities for life-long success. You’ll benefit from:

  • A deep understanding of the  educational, vocational, social, and emotional dimensions of adulthood for students with learning differences
  • Explicit techniques to help students with learning differences develop an awareness of proactive behaviors
  • Strategies to help all learners achieve the demands of the Common Core and high-stakes assessments through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • Practical tips on effective IEPs, personal stories from adults with learning differences, and suggestions from real teachers 

Few things feel better than seeing your students succeed years after they have finished school. With this practitioner-friendly guide, you’ll be equipped to help all students with learning challenges succeed as adults. Let’s get started! 

Contents

Introduction

Introduction

Part One: Context

  • 1. The Construct of Learning Differences
  • A Fundamental Question
  • A Paradigm Shift to a Strengths-Based Model
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Definitions of Learning Disabilities: How Much do They Matter?
  • Differences, Not Disabilities
  • Moving Forward
  • 2. Adult Developmental Theory and Learning Differences
  • Theories of Adult Development
  • Implications of Theories of Adult Development for Individuals with Learning Differences
  • 3. Keys to Success
  • Abraham Maslow
  • Steven Covey
  • Dale Carnegie
  • Deepak Chopra
  • Summary and Synthesis of Models of Success
  • What is Success in Adulthood?
  • 4. Success of Adults with Learning Differences
  • New Perspectives
  • Accentuate the Positive
  • Focusing on Success
  • Stories of Success

Parto Two: Good Teaching

  • 5. Building a Better Classroom
  • Facing New Challenges
  • A Multifaceted Approach to School Success (MASSive)
  • Two Examples of the MASSive Approach
  • The Most Critical Variable: Praise, Praise, Praise
  • 6. The Common Core: Teaching for a Lifetime or Teaching for One Way of Life?
  • Good Intentions, Change, and Confusion
  • The Good
  • The Meh
  • The Ugly
  • 7. Self-Understanding
  • Building a Sense of Self
  • Implications for Adulthood
  • Skills for Building Relationships
  • Social Skills and Teachable Moments
  • The IEP as Relationship Builder
  • A Systematic Approach to Building Self-Awareness, Self-Efficacy, and Agency
  • 8. Breaking the Failure Cycle
  • The Winning Picture
  • Skills and Game Success
  • Acquiring Social Skills
  • Meditation not Medication
  • Stress, Anxiety, and Other Realities of Adulthood
  • Don’t Forget the Arts
  • Life Skills
  • Outside the Box Inclusion
  • It’s not the Program. - It’s You
  • 9. Teaching the Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
  • Seven Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
  • It Comes Down to This
  • Self-Advocacy
  • Goal Planning and Goodness of Fit
  • Learned Creativity

Additional materials

Description

Your step-by-step guide to successful transition planning

Transition planning is a challenging process. Finally, here’s a practical guide that makes transition planning easier so you can prepare your students with learning differences to successfully navigate adulthood. Backed by the latest research in learning and development, Teaching for the Lifespan provides the pedagogical best practices needed to promote your students’ strengths and abilities for life-long success. You’ll benefit from:

  • A deep understanding of the  educational, vocational, social, and emotional dimensions of adulthood for students with learning differences
  • Explicit techniques to help students with learning differences develop an awareness of proactive behaviors
  • Strategies to help all learners achieve the demands of the Common Core and high-stakes assessments through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • Practical tips on effective IEPs, personal stories from adults with learning differences, and suggestions from real teachers 

Few things feel better than seeing your students succeed years after they have finished school. With this practitioner-friendly guide, you’ll be equipped to help all students with learning challenges succeed as adults. Let’s get started! 

Contents

Introduction

Introduction

Part One: Context

  • 1. The Construct of Learning Differences
  • A Fundamental Question
  • A Paradigm Shift to a Strengths-Based Model
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Definitions of Learning Disabilities: How Much do They Matter?
  • Differences, Not Disabilities
  • Moving Forward
  • 2. Adult Developmental Theory and Learning Differences
  • Theories of Adult Development
  • Implications of Theories of Adult Development for Individuals with Learning Differences
  • 3. Keys to Success
  • Abraham Maslow
  • Steven Covey
  • Dale Carnegie
  • Deepak Chopra
  • Summary and Synthesis of Models of Success
  • What is Success in Adulthood?
  • 4. Success of Adults with Learning Differences
  • New Perspectives
  • Accentuate the Positive
  • Focusing on Success
  • Stories of Success

Parto Two: Good Teaching

  • 5. Building a Better Classroom
  • Facing New Challenges
  • A Multifaceted Approach to School Success (MASSive)
  • Two Examples of the MASSive Approach
  • The Most Critical Variable: Praise, Praise, Praise
  • 6. The Common Core: Teaching for a Lifetime or Teaching for One Way of Life?
  • Good Intentions, Change, and Confusion
  • The Good
  • The Meh
  • The Ugly
  • 7. Self-Understanding
  • Building a Sense of Self
  • Implications for Adulthood
  • Skills for Building Relationships
  • Social Skills and Teachable Moments
  • The IEP as Relationship Builder
  • A Systematic Approach to Building Self-Awareness, Self-Efficacy, and Agency
  • 8. Breaking the Failure Cycle
  • The Winning Picture
  • Skills and Game Success
  • Acquiring Social Skills
  • Meditation not Medication
  • Stress, Anxiety, and Other Realities of Adulthood
  • Don’t Forget the Arts
  • Life Skills
  • Outside the Box Inclusion
  • It’s not the Program. - It’s You
  • 9. Teaching the Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
  • Seven Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
  • It Comes Down to This
  • Self-Advocacy
  • Goal Planning and Goodness of Fit
  • Learned Creativity

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Teaching for the Lifespan

Successfully Transitioning Students With Learning Differences to Adulthood

Henry B. Reiff , Nicole S. Ofiesh
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October 2015 | 200 pages | Corwin

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Your step-by-step guide to successful transition planning

Transition planning is a challenging process. Finally, here’s a practical guide that makes transition planning easier so you can prepare your students with learning differences to successfully navigate adulthood. Backed by the latest research in learning and development, Teaching for the Lifespan provides the pedagogical best practices needed to promote your students’ strengths and abilities for life-long success. You’ll benefit from:

  • A deep understanding of the  educational, vocational, social, and emotional dimensions of adulthood for students with learning differences
  • Explicit techniques to help students with learning differences develop an awareness of proactive behaviors
  • Strategies to help all learners achieve the demands of the Common Core and high-stakes assessments through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • Practical tips on effective IEPs, personal stories from adults with learning differences, and suggestions from real teachers 

Few things feel better than seeing your students succeed years after they have finished school. With this practitioner-friendly guide, you’ll be equipped to help all students with learning challenges succeed as adults. Let’s get started! 


Table Of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Part One: Context
  • 1. The Construct of Learning Differences
  • A Fundamental Question
  • A Paradigm Shift to a Strengths-Based Model
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Definitions of Learning Disabilities: How Much do They Matter?
  • Differences, Not Disabilities
  • Moving Forward
  • 2. Adult Developmental Theory and Learning Differences
  • Theories of Adult Development
  • Implications of Theories of Adult Development for Individuals with Learning Differences
  • 3. Keys to Success
  • Abraham Maslow
  • Steven Covey
  • Dale Carnegie
  • Deepak Chopra
  • Summary and Synthesis of Models of Success
  • What is Success in Adulthood?
  • 4. Success of Adults with Learning Differences
  • New Perspectives
  • Accentuate the Positive
  • Focusing on Success
  • Stories of Success
  • Parto Two: Good Teaching
  • 5. Building a Better Classroom
  • Facing New Challenges
  • A Multifaceted Approach to School Success (MASSive)
  • Two Examples of the MASSive Approach
  • The Most Critical Variable: Praise, Praise, Praise
  • 6. The Common Core: Teaching for a Lifetime or Teaching for One Way of Life?
  • Good Intentions, Change, and Confusion
  • The Good
  • The Meh
  • The Ugly
  • 7. Self-Understanding
  • Building a Sense of Self
  • Implications for Adulthood
  • Skills for Building Relationships
  • Social Skills and Teachable Moments
  • The IEP as Relationship Builder
  • A Systematic Approach to Building Self-Awareness, Self-Efficacy, and Agency
  • 8. Breaking the Failure Cycle
  • The Winning Picture
  • Skills and Game Success
  • Acquiring Social Skills
  • Meditation not Medication
  • Stress, Anxiety, and Other Realities of Adulthood
  • Don’t Forget the Arts
  • Life Skills
  • Outside the Box Inclusion
  • It’s not the Program. - It’s You
  • 9. Teaching the Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
  • Seven Attributes of Successful Adults with Learning Differences
  • It Comes Down to This
  • Self-Advocacy
  • Goal Planning and Goodness of Fit
  • Learned Creativity

Recent Product Reviews:

“Henry Reiff and Nicole Ofiesh provide an urgently-needed, practical and comprehensive look at transition from a new perspective. The authors believe all students with learning differences can learn to succeed as adults, and they offer parents and teachers clear and applicable ways to make it happen."
Eric Dezenhall, Co-founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources, and Author of Glass Jaw, The Devil Himself, and seven other books
"A 'must read' book by Drs. Henry Reiff and Nicole Ofiesh, masterfully combining theory and best practices for empowering kids and adults with learning differences."
Dr. Ken Druck, Author, The Real Rules of Life: Balancing Life's Terms with Your Own, The Secrets Men Keep, and How to Talk to Your Kids

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