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Teaching Writing - Special Needs

A Writing Activity to Help Students with Attention Disorders

November 2006
Judy Willis
Neurologist, author, and middle school teacher-consultant Judy Willis devised a strategy to reproduce what learning feels like for those with attention disorders. She writes about her classroom's results and describes how teachers might replicate the lesson themselves. This article received the Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award. More ›

Inclusion and the Multiple Intelligences: Creating a Student-Centered Curriculum

The Quarterly, 2003
Jennifer Borek
Echoing Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligences, Borek identifies learning similarities in her students and describes ways she uses knowledge of those similarities in her classroom. More ›

Teaching in Two Worlds: Critical Reflection and Teacher Change in the Writing Center

The Quarterly, Spring 2000
Dale Jacobs
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The Other Side of the Stone: Student Conversations with a Graveyard

The Quarterly, Summer 2000
Patrick C. Pritchard
Patrick C. Pritchard, a teacher at an alternative school for adolescent boys, uses a cemetery as source material for writing and learning. More ›

What's Fair: The Story of Gifted Gail and Special Eddie

The Quarterly, Summer 2000
Donna Vincent
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Book Review: Strategies for Struggling Writers, by James L. Collins

The Quarterly, Summer 1999
Mary Landis Hutchinson
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Just Give Me a Chance

The Quarterly, Spring 1999
Richard Mann
Mann draws a parallel between his experience as a young, overlooked baseball player who finally gets a chance to perform and his understanding that all students have the potential to achieve in their own way. More ›

They Will Choose to Learn: An Alternative to the Lock-Step Classroom

The Quarterly, Spring 1999
Jon Appleby
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Creating Civility: Dialogue Journals in Special Ed Classes

The Quarterly, Spring 1998
Elizabeth Anderson
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In the Midst of Silence

The Quarterly, Spring 1998
Kimberly Sloan
Working as a volunteer in a youth correctional facility, Sloan details her struggle to develop a curriculum that would allow her students "to find an overlap between school and their world." More ›

Book Review: If Not Now: Developmental Readers in the College Classroom, by Jeanne Henry

The Quarterly, Spring 1996
Barbara Bass
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Sam and Ansley's Story

The Quarterly, Spring 1996
Ansley Dauenhauer
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Jerry: A Special Education Student Discovers Writing and Reading

The Quarterly, Fall 1992
Paul Epstein
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Seeing the Promise of the Underprepared

The Quarterly, Winter 1991
Cynthia Greenleaf, Glynda Hull, Brian Reilly, Mike Rose
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Changing the Model: Working with Underprepared Students

The Quarterly, January 1989
Margot Dashiell, Marlene Griffith, Bruce Jacobs, Smokey Wilson
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