Educational Consultants: Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham, Don Deshler Use this two-program DVD to give classroom teachers the knowledge and techniques they need to help students with learning disabilities achieve at high levels. Scenes from elementary and secondary classrooms and teacher interviews capture the wisdom and practice of experienced educators who succeed at helping students overcome barriers to learning. Program 1, Adjusting for Learner Needs, explores how to use a variety of accommodations for cognitive processing and effective problems that impact learning. Classroom scenes show how to accommodate for the various cognitive and processing difficulties, effective challenges (attitudes, beliefs, and emotions), and behavior problems that impact learning. Explore a range of adjustments, why they help, and how to use them effectively: Adjusting for learning and cognition difficulties (memory, attention, verbal and auditory processing). Adjusting for attitudes, beliefs, and emotions that impact motivation. Adjusting for behaviors that hamper learning. Teacher interviews explain how special education teachers and classroom teachers collaborate to maximize learning opportunities for all students. Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham, and Don Deshler share their expertise on how to create learning experiences that help students with learning disabilities to reach higher levels of performance in today's classrooms. Program 2, Using Learning Strategies, explains strategies instruction — how to help all students master the use of learning strategies that are key to success in school and lifelong learning. Understand why students with learning disabilities need to be explicitly taught learning strategies that other students may take for granted. See how to present and model strategies to the entire class. And discover activities that give students with learning disabilities the additional practice needed to master them. Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham, and Don Deshler explain the key elements of strategies instruction as classroom teachers guide their students through a six-part process of Developing background knowledge. Discussing the purpose and benefits of the strategy. Modeling use of the strategy. Memorizing the steps of the strategy. Supporting students as they practice the strategy. Maintaining independent performance.