Descriere: For over 25 years, the author team of Alberto and Troutman has written a technically sound, systematically organized and highly-readable text for students of applied behavior analysis, behavior management, and behavior modification courses. The text continues its tradition of aiding students in their understanding of the core concepts of applied behavior analysis, how to apply these concepts in the classroom and alternative settings, and to use the tools and methods appropriately and ethically. Scholarly and empirically based, this market-leading text gives students what they need to understand using the principles and practices of applied behavioral management in the classroom in a friendly, accessible-even fun-manner. The newly revised "Applied Behavior Analysis for Teachers, "8/e, does not disappoint. New to the eighth edition: New and revised content includes: identifying target behavior, collecting and graphing data, functional assessment, experimental design, arranging antecedents and consequences, generalizing behavior change and discusses the importance of ethical considerations in using applied behavior analysis in the classroom. Content is presented in the order of decision-making by a teacher who has a student exhibiting challenging behavior in class or a student who needs to execute a behavior-change project. A rewritten and expanded chapter on functional assessment and functional analysis and new Behavior Support Plans (Chapter Six). Features classroom-based examples and practices firmly grounded in research. Updated examples that address the contemporary interests of children and young adults Classroom "snapshots" that show teachers using applied behavior analysis techniques in different settings An enhanced online supplemental support package for instructors who adopt the text.
Autori: Paul A. Alberto, Anne C. Troutman | Editura: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall | Anul aparitiei: 2008 | ISBN: 9780131592896 | Numar de pagini: 482 | Categorie: Education
Samuel G. Freedman
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a school functions against impossible odds. Small Victories alternates Jessica's experiences with those of others at Seaward Park, and as we cone to know intimately a number of the astonishing students and staff, Small Victories reveals itself as a book that has the power to change the way we see our world.