Social Relationships and Peer Support

Positive, mutually supportive relationships among students with and without disabilities are a critical part of inclusive schooling — they improve students' social skills and help boost academic achievement. This latest new edition in the Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices series helps educators foster meaningful friendships and helping relationships among their students. This second edition is enhanced throughout with:

•the most recent legislative changes
•thoroughly updated references
•new peer support guidelines for middle and high school
•ready-to-use strategies on everything from teaching social skills to making peer instruction work

Complete with blank forms on implementing cooperative learning and assessing students' behavior and relationships, this highly readable guide gives educators proven and practical ideas for improving social connections among students with and without disabilities.

These concise, issue-focused books provide general and special educators, school principals, counselors, and related services staff with a bridge from research to practice, one subject at a time.

Focusing on topics that are essential to successful inclusive school programs, each teacher-friendly guide briefly summarizes current research and recommended practices, then outlines field-tested techniques for working with students with disabilities. Completed sample forms and photocopiable blank forms accompany discussions of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation procedures for students of all ability levels in grades K-8.