This hands-on training guide provides dozens of proven strategies and effective interventions to help your supervisors, trainers and teachers successfully prepare, support and motivate test-resistant students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers.

Group activities, checklists and forms incorporate the core components of effective test preparation and development of test-taking skills -- so your educators know how to reduce resistance and anxiety in the classroom and help all students succeed on classroom tests and high-stakes assessments.

Four sections explore:

• Overview -- reviews assessment requirements under NCLB and IDEA 2004 and what the courts are saying about assessment and accommodations for students with disabilities
• Test Preparation -- examines the role of the IEP team in determining assessment accommodations for students with disabilities, ways to solicit parent cooperation in the test-taking process, and more
• During the Test -- shows participants how to prepare the test environment, implement stress reduction activities, observe and record student test-taking behavior, and more
• After the Testing -- details ways to reinforce the student for taking the test and use test information to provide student feedback and guide further instruction

Each section offers an introduction, case studies for real-life application, resources and references -- to make your in-service training effective. Plus, you get outlines and key components printed on individual pages for easy conversion to overhead transparencies. Forms may be reproduced for use only within the purchasing organization. All other rights reserved.