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

by William N. Bender (Author)

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

Author Biography

William N. Bender, PhD, 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 Blue?eld 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 ?ction 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).