Strategies and Techniques for Mainstreaming: A Resource Room Handbook

Abstract

Presented for regular classroom teachers, resource room teachers, and teacher consultants is a handbook of strategies and techniques for mainstreaming educable mentally impaired, emotionally impaired, and learning disabled students into regular classrooms. Twelve chapters cover the following topics: resource room models, personnel, staff relations, the physical layout and equipment, diagnosis (including informal tests of specific subjects and perceptual skills), teacher interview techniques, elementary and secondary consultations, educational contracts (including behavioral contracts and alternative grading systems), individualizing instruction (prescriptive teaching, selecting appropriate materials and modifying curriculum), inservice, alternatives to resource room placement, and program evaluation. (LS)