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Sandra F. Rief received her B.A. and M.A. in elementary and special education from the university of Illinois. She has taught children with learning disabilities as well as attentional and behavioral problems for the last 19 years. For the past 12 years, she has been working as a Resource Specialist in the San Diego City Schools. As a mentor teacher, Sandy became actively involved in the Project for Attention Related Disorders (PARD) and wrote a manual for her school district on effective strategies for teaching children with attention and learning disabilities. She presents numerous workshops and inservices, and is a featured speaker at conferences addressing this topic. She is also the author of How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children (1993) and The ADD/ADHD Checklist (1997) published by the Center for Applied Research in Education.

Julie A. Heimburge (B.A., San Diego, M.A. United States International University) has been an elementary teacher in the San Diego schools for the past 25 years.

OC: Introduction.

Section 1: Reaching All Students Through Their Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles.

Section 2: Learning Developmentally.

Section 3: Increasing Home/School Communication and Parent Involvement.

Section 4: Behavior Management and Positive Discipline.

Section 5: Getting Students Organized for Success: Home and School Strategies.

Section 6: Programs and Strategies for Fostering Students' Self-Esteem.

Section 7: Reaching All Students with Special Needs.

Section 8: Interventions and Adaptations: For Accommodating Special Needs.

Section 9: Programs for Building Positive Relationships, Social Skills, and Conflict-Resolution Skills.

Section 10: Team Efforts.

Section 11: Effective Questioning Techniques for the Classroom.

Section 12: Motivating Techniques for Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary.

Section 13: Hooking in Reluctant Readers/Writers.

Section 14: Strategies for Helping Students with Reading and Writing Difficulties.

Section 15: Making Oral Language Come Alive in Your Classroom.

Section 16: Motivating Students to be Successful Mathematicians.

Section 17: Revving Up Those Research Skills.

Section 18: Getting the Most Our of Students Through Scientific Investigation.

Section 19: Making the Most of Music in the Classroom.

Section 20: Reaching Students Through the Arts.

Section 21: A Few Final Words.