The Power of the Arts: Creative Strategies for Teaching Exceptional Learners

by Sally L. Smith

From the founder and director of the Lab School in Washington, D.C., this enlightening book provides an alternative method for teaching academic subjects to students with disabilities - the arts.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557664846
• ISBN13: 9781557664846
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Paul H Brookes Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Best first read for parents of smart school failures.

Complete history and philosophy of a unique school in Washington, DC The Lab School of Washington, dedicated to the creative education of intelligent disabled students. Most likely a model for all schools in the future. Smith started using the arts to teach difficult students long before the research was there to back her up, then built a living educational laboratory to test her concepts. Should be a useful first-step book for anxious partents of "different" learners, and beginning special education teachers. Also contains some useful and simple lesson plans designed by the artist-teachers of the Lab School, that address particular manifestations of common learning disabilites.