Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Schools Best Professional Practices for Serving the Needs of All Students,9781433818080

Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Schools Best Professional Practices for Serving the Needs of All Students

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781433818080
ISBN10: 1433818086
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2014-10-13
Publisher(s): American Psychological Association
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Summary

This comprehensive, landmark guide presents an evidence-based approach to assessment and instruction in K-12 education that takes into account individual differences in students. The guide identifies the developmental skills to be assessed and taught in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, and it provides principles for tailoring assessment and intervention to individual students, who exhibit sizable developmental, individual, cultural, and language differences.

Importantly, it also explains how to facilitate communication and collaboration among interdisciplinary teams in education—professionals who are legally required to work together yet have such different training and disciplinary expertise that they seem to “speak different languages."

Author Biography

Virginia Wise Berninger, PhD, is a professor of learning sciences and human development at the University of Washington, Seattle. She brings an interdisciplinary background to writing the interdisciplinary frameworks, which includes being a general education teacher (5 years in urban and suburban schools), special education teacher (3 years in a rural school), reading specialist (1 year in an urban school), experimental psychologist (cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics), clinical psychologist on interdisciplinary teams (predoctoral and postdoctoral clinical training at Boston Children's Hospital and licensed psychologist in Washington), school consultant (33 years in Boston and Seattle), research psychologist (Harvard Medical School, Tufts–New England Medical Center, University of Washington), trainer of school psychologists (1989–2006), and trainer of educators in K–12 and academics (2007–present).
 
Her research experience includes serving as a principal investigator on research funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development on normal and disabled reading, writing, and oral language development (1989–2008), as well as principal investigator and director of the University of Washington Interdisciplinary Research Center (genetics, assessments, brain imaging, and instruction; 1995–2006, 2001–present).
 

Table of Contents

Preface

I. Basic Principles of Interdisciplinary Teamwork

  1. Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Frameworks
  2. Using the Interdisciplinary Frameworks in Practice

II. Developmental Stepping Stones in Assessment and Instruction

  1. Evidence-Based Use of Tests and Assessments in 21st-Century Education
  2. Linking Instruction and Assessment in Early Childhood
  3. Linking Instruction and Assessment in Middle Childhood
  4. Linking Instruction and Assessment in Adolescence

III. Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Understanding the Biological Bases of Development and Learning

  1. A Genetics Primer and Brain Primer for Interdisciplinary Frameworks
  2. Diagnosing Pervasive and Specific Developmental Disabilities and Talent
  3. Diagnosing Specific Learning Disabilities and Twice Exceptionality
  4. Neurogenetic Disorders
  5. Brain-Related Disorders and Other Health Conditions

IV. Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Understanding Environmental Bases of Development and Learning

  1. Racial, Cultural, Family, Linguistic, and Socioeconomic Diversity and the Story of Rose

V. Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Understanding Legal, Ethical, and Institutional Issues

  1. Perspectives of a Neuropsychologist Working in an Interdisciplinary Setting With Students With Learning Disabilities and Their Parents and Teachers
  2. Opportunities for Educators to Advocate for Students
  3. Child Custody Litigation and School Personnel Fostering Positive School–Family Relationships

Appendix A: Becoming a Critical Consumer of Interdisciplinary Research for Translating Research Into Practice

Appendix B: Honor Role Model List Representing Exemplary Practices by Members of Different Professions on Interdisciplinary Teams in Schools

Index

About the Author

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