Fern Goldstein
Fern Goldstein is the author of "Looking Glass Spelling" and "Oops: Grammar in Context" and the former first vice president and newsletter editor of LDANJ. She has a bachelor's degree in speech pathology and audiology and a master's degree in special education. Fern was also the LDA 2009 Sam Kirk Special Educator of the Year. She is currently the English coordinator for Banyan High School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where she writes curriculum and teaches English to students with learning disabilities.
Articles by Fern Goldstein
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A teacher’s dilemma: Instructional level vs. grade level
Monday, August 22, 2016As the new school year arrives, mandated testing, No Child Left Behind (now ESSA), inclusion and core curriculum all loom. And special education teachers face a dilemma: whether to teach at the students' instructional level or at grade level.